My only reaction is I want dat chocolate and honey.
I suppose belly buttons must freak you out mattias
Are you stressed? Squeeze this nice stress ball.
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Urgh! I had nightmares like this when I was a kid… Sometimes I’d dream the sky or the floor was covered in holes like some of those pictures… and I’d fall into them then wake up terrified.
Way to bring back my childhood trauma, damn you!
Soothsayer created his own Trypophobic picture.
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So there’s a SciShow video about it now
Lots and LOTS of uh, interesting images in it. Don’t watch it. Don’t check it out. The facts are interesting but I feel sick. It’s great.
The link is for a video about prisons. I can’t see any videos about trypophobia pop up in the related videos, did you mispaste?
Ooh, I hate Surinam Toads now… That image will haunt me for the rest of my life. And @Adventure Time scene I’ve watched that episode too. They find a book of nursery rhymes which they mistake for a spellbook, and follow the rhyme of Jack Horner (Stuck his thumb in a pie and pulled out plum and said “What a good boy am I”) I was shuddering at the toad part… The snowman one was equally scary.
Welp… I come here to point out Surinam Toads and see someone has already beat me to it… by any chance did you learn about it from a certain True Facts video?
And for those of you who don’t know what a Surinam Toad is… take a peek at said “True Facts about the Frog” by zefrank.
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Not really! It’s usually just when there are lots of holes together and with different sizes.
Just a hoax video on youtube… top comment, though… “TRYPOPHOBIA TRYPOPHOBIA TRYPOPHOBIA TRYPOPHOBIA TRYPOPHOBIA TRYPOPHOBIA!!!”
i also have that phobia i really dont want to see those images related to tyrophobia especially the hand full of dot wounds and the honeybee house any images containing those small dots.
Seeing these pictures gives me the same feeling I get from heights.
I am not naturally scared of hights.
(BUT) I have “programed” myself with a deliberate fear of heights to “trigger” in certain circumstances, as have many others in my industry.
I am a professional roping guide and a vertical rescue volunteer, so I am around high cliffs and buildings a lot.
We “roping experts” have a safety rule: You NEVER go within 2m of an edge unless you are attached to rope, or there is another factor that changes that distance. (eg. a railing could lower the distance, but a sloping, slippery edge could increase the safety margin.)
If I approach an edge, when I get to about 2m from it, I automatically do a safety check in my head. If I am confident that I am safe, I can proceed to the edge, and I have no fear of the height.
BUT, If I cross the 2m, and am not attached to a safety line, my subconscious freaks out for a fraction of a second. ( This starts to get annoying when i’m working on a particular one of my abseiling towers, it is a 40 tall 3mX3m tower. The top has a railing around the edge, so a safety line is not required, but this subconscious trigger is constantly activating as I move around the top of the tower, I now rig up a safety line whenever I use that tower, just to stop the trigger.)
Anyway, I’ll try to stop rambling about roping and get to my point.
For some reason I feel the same short moment of fear when I see these pictures. As soon as I see one of the pictures, I feel fear for a tiny moment. Not really enough to properly scare me, but enough to notice it. Once that moment passes, I feel the same way as I do while standing on the edge of a 250m cliff….I don’t really feel anything. When I look down a large drop, I kind of stop feeling emotion, as if I am supposed to feel fear, but I don’t, and there isn’t another emotion to fill the gap. I can kind of understand this happening with heights, but these Trypophobia pictures, i’m not sure why I feel the same way.
Any thoughts/ theories/ Ideas?
Sorry for the long, rambling post. I am rather tired, and when that happens I tend to go on and on for a bit too much.