SAME! I wake up in a cold sweat from nightmares about getting chased by dinosaurs. Yet on the other hand I am largely fascinated by them.Aareniel wrote:I'm not sure if both of them have a scientifical name, but I'm horribly afraid of dinosaurs. Not the small cute ones, but the huge carnivorous creatures. I don't know if Jurassic Park sparked this one (watching the scene with the T-Rex from the first movie as a kid might not be the greatest idea) or if it's just one of these unexplained and 'natural' phobias of big predators. I manage to still go to places with dinosaur animatronics and watch movies involving them, but I'll really tense up and sometimes even start shaking.
I think fears and phobias are a bit different. I'm afraid of tornados yet love to watch the destruction they cause, I'm terrified of bugs or anything that can fly in my face yet at the same time I want them to liveand actively free them, and dead fish/bugs skeeve me out.
I have discovered recently that I do most likely have trypophobia which is the fear of holes. Strange right? Mine seems to manifest in the form of holes in the skin, the smaller the more intense my reaction is. I implore you all not to look it up on google, at least not with image search on because some of the first images can actually trigger trypophobia (pics of lotus fruit and holes in skin). That's pretty much how I found out I had it and I wasn't right for the whole rest of the day.