What's Your Irrational Fear?

[powerplantanimations]

This is for my comic. I'm coming up dry. All I can think of is bugs and clowns. I need inspiration lmao.

[LunarScyphozoa]

Zombies. No clue if that’s useful to you but. Holy crap zombies

[IndigoShirtProd]

When I was a kid, I thought that inanimate objects would one day come to life and rise up (because they outnumber us), only letting people who were nice them survive. So you could use that.

[Flios]

Uh..irrational?
Mine is...bombs???
I don't really know why.

[harlan]

I went through a weird period where I was irrationally disturbed when wait staff at restaurants shoved giant pepper grinders in my face.

[MaxFF]

My irrational fear used to be dogs, but I've had a lot of positive experiences with them in the last few years so I don't really mind them any more, in general. Although super loud and aggressive dogs still kind of unnerve me a bit.

[BLTX]

Ditto.

Though still quite afraid.

[ButterflyEmpress]

Fungus. I don't like looking at mushrooms or mold without feeling like having a heart attack

[RedLenai]

Open doors at night with a faint light on. I don't know, the idea of someone stepping on that door or my imagination getting the best of me in the dark is absolutely terrifying, especially if the bed is facing to the door

Another irrational fear that I have is when the sun is setting and I'm like 2 hours away from home and I went to a new place but I don't know any buses or trains to go back home, and if these go off service then I get worse, I don't know, the idea of not knowing how to get back home scares me, I know I could pay a taxi and problem solved even if I have to pay more money but I simply panic and can't think straight.

[alliascompany]

Might sound weird, but for awhile I really didn't like creepy deer. Not regular ones, just the ones that are purposefully unsettling. Example being the one in Adventure Time that kidnapped Candy people.
Saw a commerical when I was a kid with a cat eating one and it really freaked me out.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Mirrors in the dark.

During the day, mirrors are fine. At night? Nah. I'll be sure to position any mirrors so I can't see into them from my bed. Nope nope nope.

[YS_og]

Wasps. Any time I walk around a corner outside is any time a wasp might be there waiting for me, pissed off for no reason.

And not the black or yellow ones, the armored red and black ones you cant kill by stepping on them or spraying w/ killer ️

[darthmongoose]

Seconding Zombies, and also wasps.

Some other ones:

Fear of or aversion to things with lots of holes in them, or patterns of clustered spots, is called Trypophobia, and it's way more common than some people realise.

Some people are scared of flies. They might have seen an adult freaking out about flies landing on food, or been told "flies poop and lay eggs on food" as a child and developed a fear of them.

Balloons are phobia for some people, because they're like "a thing that may make a loud, sudden noise at any moment" kind of thing.

[ladyofthedarkwoods]

When I was a kid I used to be so scared that a bear would break in I was terrified of windows at night too, cause I was scared I would see faces in them
Now I’m just scared of other people lol
Also randomly sometimes I get scared of the building I live in suddenly falling down or the side of it falling out, I guess it’s part of being scared of heights and living high up

[Kelheor]

Car/plane crash.
Red TV light in the dark of the night I hate it, it hates me back.

[harlan]

For my gaming group, I once DMed an adventure that took place in a kingdom of anthropomorphic deer people. The whole party, people unfazed by dragons, slimes, and all manner of monsters, was totally creeped by the deer people and refused to engage with them in any way. 🤣 I had to rewrite my plot.

[Aeneas1]

Flowers. They just look weird to me. I do not joke.

[Hipiticus]

Escalators. Going up or down one of those, realizing your shoes are untied, then they get stuck between the end of the escalator and the stairs, pulling you in to your death

[bunny]

This might sound silly but I've often had nightmares of large fish in deep huge bodies of water ofc the scary thing is me being there and the immense scale of thing while im so tiny hhhh this video I came across the other day is the tip of the iceberg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yjGX1GCRem0
Imagine the life of pi but less beautiful magical and more terrifying

[wispysing]

Plane and car crashes too. But I guess it's more trauma-related to my childhood.

That, and thinking a stranger's in my house hiding somewhere.