oh besides mimes, falling i am dead scared of falling

I am afraid of heights. Also thanks to my wonderful parinoia I am afriad of the shadow men. Thanks mental disabilities!

thanks to my mental disabilites, my anxiety attacks make me seem high

I've got germaphobia, some hemophobia (and I want to be a practicing physician ), mostly for fear of diseases transmitted by said blood, selachophobia (fear of sharks), and some bathophobia (fear of deep water) tying in with my fear of sharks... or anything large enough to deal massive harm to me in an uncomfortable and alien environment (deep water). In addition, I've got a bit of acrophobia and a lighter bit of aerophobia. I'm also a bit claustrophobic.

You're lucky. My anxiety attacks make me want to hide.

I don't have any such phobia but I once had a dream where I decided to dive as far down into the ocean as I possibly could while wearing a breathing mask with a limited supply of air. But once I was down to a certain point by some weird dream physics logic I started sinking because the pressure of the water above me pushed me down, and down, and down and I was not good enough of a swimmer to swim faster up than it pulled me down. But once I reached the bottom I was able to kick myself up but I didn't quite make it beyond the point where the pressure started pushing me down again. So I was going to try again confident that I just had to put a little more effort into the jump to get up, but I got curious about something that looked like a sleeping woman buried from her waist down into the sand at the bottom, and when I came close her eyes popped open and she grabbed my leg in a lock that I could not possibly break free from. The dream continued for a while with me trying to struggle out of her grasp until my mask ran out of air and then I myself ran out of air and drowned. At which point I woke up.

As for a phobia I probably do have. I would say I have cyno+lupo-phobia. My heart starts beating fast, I start sweating and shaking and my chest feels heavy so I take heavy breaths when I am around dogs. However I feel like I am mocking people with real issues because I've seen others with other phobias and they can't help but scream loudly and run when confronting their fears. While I only have bodily reactions but am able to keep my head clear enough not to scream or run. So do I really have a phobia or something else ? Can phobias vary in strength, like can one person have a small phobia for something while another has a big phobia for something ?

Extreme fear of heights.

I would assume so, yes. A phobia is simply an irrational fear. It may be possible for one person to irrationally fear a thing, yet still have the ability to try to approach it with a somewhat clear approach while another person may irrationally fear the same thing to a far greater degree and completely panic in such a situation. I'm not a psychologist and I'm pulling things out of the air, but that's how I've always seen phobias. Though then that brings up a debate of what constitutes an irrational fear in the first place versus a rational one.

For example, one arachnophobe may just freak out and run at the sight of all and any spiders while the other may still freak out if spiders are crawling on them and may be tense upon seeing them, but can still approach the spider or spiders in order to kill it or them.

I have a fear of bees, but I don't know if that qualifies as a phobia because I think it's completely rational...especially when I seem to get stung half the time.

Claustrophobia & Arachnophobia.

Fear of Heights

That and Anatidaephobia...
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Spiders
Dark
Swimming
Being surrounded by people
Being immobilized in any way
Complete Silence

I never thought of that, but that would be truly terrifying. Chalk that up on my list, too.

Fear of heights, but only if there isn't a barricade that goes above my waist.

Other than that, nothing. I guess I'm pretty lucky with that, because great heights is something I almost never have to deal with, and it isn't even a really bad fear when I am confronted with it.

Arachnophobia. I hate spiders. I kill (with extreme prejudice) any spider that makes into my house. Last year, there was a big one that was on my back porch. I killed it with a butane torch.

Acrophobia. I used to be afraid of heights. Then I took an arrow to the knee jumped out of a plane at an altitude of 14,000 ft (damn near three miles). I had so much fun that I now do it at least twice a year.

A friend of mine as Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. What [censored] named it that, anyway?

I used to kill spiders while I was young, but nowadays I use this patent pending invention I found to deal with them. It is a bit difficult to explain, but it is basically a butterfly net with a closable end. Simply close it around one and dump it outside. But then again, I don't have arachnophobia.

As for the second one in the quote, according to Wikipedia it is fictional. Here is the little segment they had on it:

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia#cite_note-8} Hippopoto – "big" due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus (though this is derived ashippo- "horse" compounded with potam-os "river", so originally meaning "river horse"; according to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English, "hippopotamine" has been construed as large since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning "monstrous", -o- is a noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from "sesquipedalian" meaning a long word (literally "a foot and a half long" in Latin), -o- is a noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means "fear". Note: This was mentioned on the first episode of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainiac:_Science_Abuse Series Five as one of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Tickle's Teasers.

Swimming (in the ocean) at night. I don't know if there is an actual phobia for that though. Don't really have a fear of it during the day, unless it's really dark/murky and deep water. And strangely, I can night surf, I just can't go out without my board.

Also, half of Trypanophobia (or it may be a subcategory of claustrophobia), which is the fear of needles and the fear of being restrained. I don't mind needles at all, actually I enjoy the sensation of shots (I know, I'm weird) but Nevermind found it, it's merinthophobia. I can't handle being restrained. If I am restrained I get an instant adrenaline rush and go into a frenzy trying to get free.

I don't think there is a name for it either, but I would call it "Jawsophobia".

Well, the fear does stem from sharks so, I guess so.

I was referring to the movie Jaws, where the opening scene had a woman taking a night swim at the beach. Little did she know, there was a shark in the water...

Family Getting Hurt.
Running out of Scotch and Bacon.
Clowns
Mimes
Nutcrackers
Cockroaches
Law Enforcement

I can handle the rest of them, just as long as the first two are taken care of.

But cockroaches... BLAH.

I know.

Let's see:

I have a small fear of spiders, now I just go after them with my fly swatter code name: http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp212/sbcmarine81/304px-Spaghetti.jpg .

I have fear of living/being alone.

I can get a fear of sleeping if I have to many nightmares.

I also have a slight case of virtigo, however once I get use to being in high places I get used to it quickly.

all phobias are irrational, some times not so irrational, fears of death. I used to have arachnophobia but i over came it, as well as my fear of heights, when i realized i had no reason to fear those things because it was unlikely either would kill me.

Much less clowns or the pope

I have a phobia of lakeweed. I've been swimming lately in a vain attempt to get fit, and since we live near a lake, I swim in that. The only problem with the lake is this fear of lakeweed. It's not a fear of what's in the lakeweed, and it doesn't even have to be visible. I just swim out and I am overcome by a completely irrational terror induced by the fact that there is lakeweed somewhere down there. I can still swim, but only a little way out before I get so terrified I have to swim back to shore. I can't swim if there are clouds because it darkens the water too much and I can't see that there is no lakeweed (even though I know there isn't any close to the surface where I swim) I don't even like swimming if it's a little rough because I can't see as well.

The strange thing is I'm ok with it in the shallows. I won't go near it but it doesn't creep me out anywhere near as much when I can see it. Although some touched my foot the other day and I almost flew out of the lake.