phobias

[ziggytrix]

heights, snakes, dark & isolation, insanity, fear, bees, wasps, bears, cows, ferrets, illness, strangers, not knowing what to do, semi-trucks on the highway, small-town cops, crackheads, vagrants, wild dogs, raccoons, large flocks of birds, amusment park rides, rats....

i could go on and on.

the best thing tho, is head on confrontation of the fear. i had a pet snake, for example. picking it up was like... well, like jumping of a really tall bluff into a lake or whatever. quite the rush. it doesn't really cure me of the phobia, but it makes it more managable.


i never have the 'naked in public' anxiety dream. instead i get the 'i'm in a play and i have no clue what my lines are' dream. and the teeth one - i've had that too - tho it's REALLY rare that i have bad dreams. the worst tho is when you just have the fear. you don't know why, but you are terrified, and you try to scream or shout for help, but no sound comes out, and then you feel a rushing sensation, like falling, sort of, but not quite. it's really hard to describe, and probably different for different people, but they're called "night terrors" and they happen during a different part of the sleep cycle than normal dreams and nightmares. only ever had that once or twice tho.