Flocks of migrating birds. I feel like they know something important that I don’t.
Prions. Misfolded proteins that manage to get into your brain and just wreck shit. I don’t handle anything that would be contaminated or anything but just the idea of this non-living thing that will just replicate and cause havok - horrifying.
Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow’s body gets destroyed, not just buried.
The least logical thing I know is Donald Trump, and I’m afraid this idiot will set the world on fire…
Dropping my phone when I’m in a high place
Put it into airplane mode and worry no more.
Illogical fears require illogical solutions!
Hey, that’s a perfectly logical solution. Airplanes fly. Turning your phone into airplane mode obviously makes it behave like an airplane. Therefore, a phone in airplane mode can fly.
OMG you made me audibly giggle
Similar, when I’m in a high place and I look down I have the sensation that my glasses will fall from my face into the void.
My glasses never have fallen from my face even doing jumps or stunts, but for some reason when I’m looking down from a balcony I’m terrified that they’ll just drop.Or when you walk over the threshold of an elevator door and there is that little gap. Same with keys.
Understandable
Being murdered for being trans while living in Oregon. It shouldn’t happen, but it’s not impossible.
Damn, sorry that’s a reality you’re forced to live in.
Two people hit it with a downvote.
I have no idea what the downvotes are trying to communicate.
- ”that’s right, tranny, we’re coming for you”
- ”this content doesn’t improve Lemmy“
- ”trans people aren’t discriminated against”
Or something else entirely that I can’t articulate.
Whatever the reasons for the downvotes people have left, my feelings are true and I feel them.
I wasn’t one of them but I can only guess:
“This, unfortunately is a logical fear and therefore doesnt answer the question.”My down votes usually mean “I don’t like what you said and therefore don’t like you”
People downvote me all the time. I usually deserve it, unlike you in this case. Either way Fuck em, try not to care. Any thought you put into it is largely wasted.
Make it three downvotes, because this thread is about least logical fears.
Thanks for explaining yours.
(And man, I hate it when other people validate that I’m in deep shit. Makes it real, you know?)
The users who downvoted you were iconoclast@feddit.uk and FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world. I’m sure it would make their respective day(s) if you asked them.
I’ve given up trying to make heads or tails of downvoters’ behavior. I am convinced that some people here either think there is some “algorithm” that will magically stop showing them some type of content if they downvote it (I can’t imagine I’ve pissed in that many people’s cornflakes, so that’s my theory anyhow) and others who don’t quite understand that there’s no such thing here as reddit style karma.
I dunno. It is what it is. I think fewer people realize than they should that votes are publicly accessible on Lemmy, though.
(Don’t look at me. I haven’t downvoted anyone in four months.)
Yeah, there’s enough content on Lemmy to see everything in a half hour and then get on with the day. I like that.
The algorithm is set to “here’s everything except what you blocked.”
Trump and his supporters.
Fair
Suddenly falling over the railing that separates me from the long fall below.
I don’t generally have balance issues, and I know hundreds of people have successfully leaned on that railing, but I’ll be good standing a few steps back.
But I’d really prefer if everyone stood back, because it’s stressing me out to watch.
Floors I can see through (metal mesh, drainage grates, thick glass, etc.)
I struggle to walk across it, even when it can hold literal cars.
Having a slug come into contact with my feet or my socks or my shoes, but only if I am wearing them at the time. Anywhere else on my body is fine. I don’t know what harm will come from this occuring. I do know it is fine if a slug is touching my shoe, I pick it off, and then put on the shoe. My fear of snails is likely but unverified.
My wife has an irrational fear of slugs, like completely locked up and shaking if she sees one. We have spent 20 years together trying to figure out where her phobia came from.
She is in therapy now and was talking through it with her therapist and the therapist asked “what do you fear will happen” my wife told her all the images that flash in her mind when she thinks about slugs. Turns out the therapist is a big horror movie fan and knew of a movie where those exact things happened.
Well about the time that the movie came out on VHS my wife was being watched by an abusive relative who liked to rent scary movies and force her to watch them.
Are you, perhaps, immortal?
Helicopter rotor blades. I’m afraid they will hit my eyes. Even seeing them on a video is very uncomfortable and I have to look away or close my eyes until they’re gone.
How are you with kitchen blenders?
They don’t bother me. The blades are not exposed. I also own a ceiling fan and it doesn’t bother me either, even though it has exposed blades.
Huh. I, on the other hand, have weirdly intrusive thoughts with smaller blades, like a kitchen blender or an uncovered fan, but a helicopter doesn’t faze me. Although can’t say I’ve ever been in one, but I’ve been very close by.
Anyway when blending shit I sometimes have intrusive thoughts. I don’t think I’d have a garbage disposal like I see in the movies. They’re probably not even allowed here in Finland, and my laziness would want one, but my accident-prone-ass knows I probably shouldn’t get one even if I could.
I once bought a mandolin for my kitchen. Here’s Jeremy Clarkson demonstrating what happens to everyone who buys their first mandolin without having read the stories.
Pilot here. I’m afraid of running rotors and propellers because they can fucking mince you. I worked on Rotax 912-powered aircraft for awhile, they have twin carburetors that have to be balanced, ie the throttle valves have to open the same amount or one side of the engine is trying to run harder than the other. This has to be done with the engine running. If I had to get from one side of the engine compartment to the other, I’d walk around the tail.
As someone who’s embarked and disembarked a helicopter with rotors spinning a myriad of times, I get it.
Spontaneous human combustion.
Watched a documentary on it as a kid and I’ve had the fear in the back of my mind ever since
In the 80s we figured we would be abducted, if not that, it would be quicksand that got us, and if that failed,we would spontaneously combust, and if all else failed the hole in the ozone layer would destroy all life on earth. We were so concerned with all that happening that we all became kinda apathetic.
Talking to people
Answering a question like this in a place where it could be hoovered up by a hostile foreign power. I’m not interesting enough to be targeted specifically but they can cast a wide net and stash away the info for a rainy day.
Oh, what the heck, couldn’t really hurt. My greatest fear is friendly medium/large dogs (Labrador Retriever to Irish Wolfhound-ish) followed closely by collections of good science fiction books and too much time to read them.
Dogs can be scary.
Palmetto bugs.
Palmetto bugs.
In NJ they were 3 inches long, sleek and black and abhorrent. Ugh!
Bonk bonk they go into the windows! Fucking asshole bugs those are!
I grew up in Florida but I haven’t lived there in a long time and I had a visceral fear reaction to just reading the words “palmetto bugs.” AUGH.
Not illogical. I was talking with a friend one night under a tree and had one fall on my face. Super gross.
I just mean I know logically they aren’t harmful but my mind cannot. I’m not scared of spiders or lizards or snakes but those overgrown roaches strike absolute terror into my heart since I was little. I am so sorry you experienced that. I’ve had them fly at me.
So few of them around now, and my logical & rational fear is that is a bad sign for the world. But it has been amazing to be able to work in the yard without the constant fear of picking up a brick or stone, they used to come out from under every single upturned stone.
Getting stabbed on the bus. Everytime a crazy guy gets on the bus and starts yelling im like fuck today is the day.
Its not logical because the chance of it happening is extremely low due to low crime + he cant stab everyone on the bus so ive got a 1/30 chance. Also i probably only have the worry because very often i read news about people getting attacked on public transport in my city.
Be first to stab anyone who yells to get out in front of the issue?
But then people will be afraid to yell crazily in a bus for fear of getting stabbed by a slient unsuspecting office worker
At least that would be a logical fear. Problem solved.
