If you're not arachnophobic, then you won't understand what I just went through!

[Eggie]

I hate Spiders...I hate them with a fiery passion and I refuse to listen to anyone who says they're harmless because those people are going to be the first to have their insides sucked out when the spiders evolve.
They are cold, calculating killing machines with no emotions or thought. Just cold calculating killing. And the way they kill their prey is horrendous.

Irrational fear my arse, it's irrational to NOT be scared of those octo-legged bastards! Arachnophobes are the one's who'll survive the spider apocolypse...It's us alone who can see the truth. And it's us who's to have to fight to take the planet back...

One day, someone like me is gonna kill you AND YOUR WHOLE FUCKING SPECIES!!!


I like Harvestmen, though. They're silly.

[Fuzzpilz]

I'm glad I'm not saddled with arachnophobia. Sitting here at night, I often see the odd largish spider scuttle across the room, and if that caused me fear, I imagine I'd have a problem...

It's not like I can help being arachnaphobic ...

Well, actually phobias can be treated... but it's certainly not at all as simple to get rid of them as some people tend to think. "They're not dangerous, especially if you leave them in peace" won't do the trick.

On earwigs... the "they crawl into your ear and EAT YOUR BRAIN!!" story is, of course, bunk. Not that they wouldn't be unnerving in large quantities - especially inside a building. I remember one rainy evening a few years ago when there were hundreds of green lacewings on the outside of every single window in the house; that was interesting and kind of surreal, but not disturbing.

[AlbinoPanther]

We like insects we love nature but this creature is one meanÃ,  M****RÃ,  F****R
So we made this crapy animation just for revange(cause it scares us).






Real true is that this bug don't want to eat you inner ear.It just want to find place for it's nest(eggs).And hole in human ear is perfect place for such thing(cosily and with right temperature).

BUT STILL IT IS UGLY AS DEVIL HIMSELF

[Paper Carnival]

why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?

[AlbinoPanther]

why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?

It's not from the scissors it is blood form bug.
We know that blood from this insect isn't green but

[Tiki]

I have an absolute phobia of ANYthing going near my eyes. It's completely instinctual and uncontrollable.

I can go near my eyes (rubbing, eye drops, etc) but that's it.

I had to go to the eye doctor one time and they had to physically strap me to the exam chair because I was totally unable to let them near my eyes. I hate it ... I feel like a weakling, but it's a fact either way!

That's me all the way.  Can't stand anything in my eyes; contacts, eye drops, what have you.  It's uncontrollable.  I can't keep my eye open and I start wiggling all over.  They need to force me down at the eye doctor as well.

I think it has more to do with my eye surgeries, though.  Not sure.  I'm also afraid of most heights, though I find airplanes cool.  Spiders only creep me out when they get agressive or of a beastly size.  But I like catching lizards.

[Las Naranjas]

Mum gets annoyed that I let the huntsman spiders build their webs in my room, but they catch the flies and they don't bother me.

However they do have a funny habit of hanging on the roof above my bed, and on the roof of the shower where they get knocked down by steam and fall on you. I also caught one in my towell when I was drying myself once.

Anything that dumb can't harm you.

[this is a huntsman]

There's also the red backs and some strange spiders with a massive fat abdomen that absolutely carpet our front lawn with webs [think Shelob's lair] but I'm cool with them as well.

[Paper Carnival]

why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?

It's not from the scissors it is blood form bug.
We know that blood from this insect isn't green but

I knew that's what you want it to be, but it looks like the green fluid comes from the scissor... And insect blood doesn't have bubbles

But anyway, incect blood is transparent, so the color you see depends what it has eaten.

Las Naranjas: I don't know about you, but I prefer to have flies in my room instead of that demon

[Vince Twelve]

I am a complete and total arachnophobic sissy.  If I see a small one, I have to kill it.  If I see a big one, I have to run away screaming.

Living on a sub-tropical islands presents a large number of times when I need to walk down a narrow jungle path with high trees on both sides.  In the mountains surrounding my town, these paths are littered with giant freaking spiders.  They keep their webs up high above these paths, but at 6'4" (188ish centimeters) I tower above all the other people who walk along these paths and I'm terrified that if I'm not careful (though I'm usually ducking in fear behind my very short wife) I'm going to get one of these ominous fist-sized beasts in my hair.

Oh I hate how they just sit there... watching me... as I cower in fear under them...

[Kinoko]

I have an uncontrollable phobia of losing my breath when there's a lot of blood coming out of my body.

Best. Phobia. Ever.

I have that too.

I had HIDEOUS arachnophobia before coming to Japan. I'd freak out like crazy if I saw a spider and I had to get my boyfriend to kill them. Now, I live in a little village with spiders EVERYWHERE so I've sort of been forced to get over it. None are in my apartment which suits me fine. If they're outside and they keep to themselves, fair enough.

Mind you, the spiders around my place here are nowhere near as scary as the huntsmen back in Australia.

[Vince Twelve]

Kinoko-

Seen a mukade yet?

[Squinky]

I don't really mind spiders and junk, just try and stay away from em...

I did have a crappy experince the other day though, walking in my yard a flying insect managed to fly right into my left ear. I mean all the way up there. It made such an awful noise abd it felt like it was burrowing into my brain....Fucking horrible. I kept playing that scene from that start trek movie wrath of khan...

Anyway, my wife was sleeping, I woke her up and begged her to get the bug out, only she couldn't see it. She told me I was crazy and laid back down. Long story short She eventually wised up and tweezed the thing outta my ear...

[Kinoko]

Vince: Nope, I have zero bugs inside my apartment. I'm -always- looking but I haven't seen more than a little slug on my bathroom wall (which I put outside after taking a photo of it to mark the occasion).

I've already talked to other ALTs who have had mukade on their ceilings and freaked out. I'm just glad it isn't me. I honestly think I giant huntsman would scare me more though. I look at mukade and they just don't scare me (in photos). BTW, is that -your- hand?

By the way, if you have an LJ account, let me know and I'll add you to my friends list so you can read about my crazy wacky adventures in Japan.

[Vince Twelve]

BTW, is that -your- hand?

Hell no!  That hand comes to you courtesy of a google image search.   Again, I'm a big sissy.  Too many legs freaks me out.  I did see one Mukade, but it was outside while I was walking to the grocery store.  Thankfully, my apartment is also quite bug free.

No, no LiveJournal.  I got bored of blogging about my adventures in Japan a long time ago.

[Kinoko]

Well, with me it's a convenient way of telling things to my friends and only having to write it once. It only became LJ yesterday though. I hate LJ, but I was out of the loop with all my other LJ using friends so much like the reason the weight of the world eventually necessitated me to get a mobile phone, I was forced to start an LJ.

Wow, I said LJ a lot.

As for mukade, I havent even seen one outside yet. I'm almost disappointed because I got the impression they were everywhere.

[Phemar]

Alright - Here's something else: (how's this for a weird phobia!)

Alright, I'm not entirely sure what this is called (or even if its called!), but I also have the phobia of man-made objects that are underwater. Yes, I know it souunds ridiculous, but I'll be swimming or something, and I'll see maybe a rusted pipe underneath me or something and I'll freak out and swim away as fast as possible.
This phobia isn't as bad as my arachnophobia though -- I can get over this one easier. For instance I used to crap my pants everytime the creepy-crawly came close to me, but I'm kinda over it now.

[Kinoko]

Well, if we're talking about weird phobias, I have 2.

One is anything touching the back of my knees. I think of something possibly damaging the tendons back there and it drives me insane.

Moreso than that is non-laquered wooden objects scraping on things. I don't know where it came from but particularly the thought of popsicle sticks on my teeth just ... it's the most awful torture I can imagine. Even when washing wooden spoons or something, I have to really wash them carefully so I don't rub them or anything.

[Miez]

Ok,

I have a weird phobia as well: the edge of a door on the hinged side. I ALWAYS picture myself getting my fingers trapped there. The feeling is especially strong when I see those big glass doors in department stores, airports etc. closing.
Just describing it makes me tuck away my toes and fingers.

[Las Naranjas]

I have an aversion to submerged objects as well Zor, although I wouldn't term it a phobia.

[Andail]

Never heard of that before, interesting. What about big sharks and octopussies?

In mittens we discussed scary stuff one of the nights around the campfire. We all managed to freak Adam out by talking about the men from the sea; we imagined seeing human shapes walking up from the water, slowly coming towards us. (And he's supposed to call himself DarkStalkey?)
Eventually, all of us were more or less worked up, except for AGA, who is the epithome of a rational sceptic.