For some strange reason I have a fear of Contact lenses. This never used to be anything that I'd have to care about, but now that I have glasses, ugh.

Me too! Not specifically of them but of using them... I think I'd rather be stuck with wet glasses than contacts! I'm to afraid I'd poke my eye out or get it infected... *shudders*

1. Serial killers.
2. The dark. The pitch black kind.
3. A slow and painful death.
4. Sharks. Related to that is my fear of murky water and swimming in lakes/oceans.
5. Centipedes.
6. People.
7. Humiliating myself publicly.
8. Awkward phone conversations.
9. Hairy or slimy things - slugs and spiders, mainly.
10. Being abandoned.
11. Failing school.
12. Either never getting married, or getting divorced.
13. Pain. I have zero tolerance for pain. It terrifies me, even though the waiting is worse then the actual experience.
14. Speaking in public.
15. Having my house burn down in the middle of the night.

^That's what comes to mind at the moment.

The Ocean, and everything in it.
Any kind of bug - especially spiders.

Childbirth is a fear, even though I want to have lots of kids. For three reasons (not necessarily in order):

1. The pain, the pain!!
2. The unexpected
3. A phobia I have that could come up in labor

So yeah. I'll have to update in, oh, 2-5 years maybe, when I have my first baby.

I think it's because I was traumatized when I had an accident a few years ago, but when I walk down slopes I feel scared. Even if it's just a little walkway, I'm nervous.

The Ocean, and everything in it.

Haha the same with me Ela, I'm terrified of the ocean, my sister and I were making our bucket list recently and she said "of course we have to go scuba diving" and I made it very clear that if there is one thing I will never do in my life is go scuba diving never never never, I'm just freaked of the ocean

Ditto. Never ever. Worst nightmare.

I'm with you on that, Lucy of Narnia. Childbirth. Eep.

Haha, Elanor. I refuse to swim in the ocean, hands down. As for scuba-diving......HA. So not happening! Even if the water wasn't dark and murky, I'd hate being in the middle of endless blue....out of my comfort zone.... where something big could just come up and swallow me.

I know!!! I can't even abide swimming in lakes - in anything that has fish in it. xDD
Yes. Childbirth.

Me too! Not specifically of them but of using them... I think I'd rather be stuck with wet glasses than contacts! I'm to afraid I'd poke my eye out or get it infected... *shudders*

I used to as well, but you actually do get used to it with after a while. The trick is to only touch the white part of the eye, not the lens. Even so sometimes it still takes me several minutes to get my contacts in (on the rare days I wear them).

The Ocean, and everything in it.
Any kind of bug - especially spiders.

Oh, really? Well why not combine the two into one gigantic nightmare?

May I present the Japanese Spider Crab. This is a monstrous big one...we used to find much smaller ones in the surf when I was a little kid living in NY. They always freaked me out though .

1. All bugs, especially praying mantises. I can NOT function around a praying mantis. They absolutely paralyze me. The way they turn their heads...ugh!

2. An open sky at night. I feel like I am going to be sucked off the planet. During the day it's fine, but at night I am looking into infinity. My best friend says it's because I've been abducted by aliens. If I'm holding on to someone or something, it's better, but not by much. One time my family was cruising the Southern Caribbean, and my husband and sister were sitting on the veranda one night looking at all the stars. I could NOT come out on the veranda, no matter how hard I tried. I had the glass doors in a death grip.

3. Lunar eclipses freak me out. I can't watch them. It's related to #2. Maybe because my mother used to kid that the man in the moon was going to come get me when I was little, and I've never liked looking at a full moon ever since. She has apologized for this over and over, while trying not to smile too widely.

4. Really big things. Is that weird? A huge statue in the distance, or a giant landmark (like Mount Fuji), or a gigantic fish swimming by (that happens when I'm snorkeling) will give me a sudden chill. I will levitate when someone suddenly exclaims about it ("WOW, look at that!" "THERE IT IS!"). The model of the blue whale in the Smithsonian terrified me as a child and my teacher was trying her best not to laugh as she explained the whale was friendly, look it's smiling and saying "Hi." Nice try. I got used to it, but that sudden appearance as I walked around the corner flipped me out.

5. Being alone as I get older. My parents are aging, my husband is much older than I am...it's really scary to realize just how much I've been sheltered by those three, and I imagine being alone and unprotected without them and I start to get physically sick. Then I tell myself to get a grip and it recedes until the next time I start thinking about it.

6. Losing my sight. My escape from reality is reading books. If I can't read, I will perish. Someone would have to teach me Braille PDQ.

7. Drowning or death by some other form of suffocation. I had a terrible case of whooping cough as a teenager, and at one point my windpipe closed off. I have never forgotten the blinding, uncontrollable panic of being unable to breathe.