I have this bizarre fear of lightning as most of you know. Go ahead laugh….get it all out but it really does affect my life. I will not go outside when there is lightning and will wait until it has finished before venturing out; if I am unlucky enough to be caught driving in a storm I do my best to stay on the road though I have been guilty of ducking when it strikes. I have an eye mask and ear plugs ready for wear if the sky decides to flash all evening during sleepy time and have found myself wearing both much more often than normal.
You see the stats just came out and from June 1 to August 28th we have had a total of 77 hours of storms…..23 hours is normal and last year we had just 8. We’ve also had 27 days with thunderstorms and last year again, there were 8. What the hell???? That’s almost an entire month of lightning.
You see the stats just came out and from June 1 to August 28th we have had a total of 77 hours of storms…..23 hours is normal and last year we had just 8. We’ve also had 27 days with thunderstorms and last year again, there were 8. What the hell???? That’s almost an entire month of lightning.
I thought I would get over my fear a few years ago when I was caught camping on a beach in the most spectacular (ie scary) storm ever. We all crammed into the car and sat there for hours as the sky lit up, waiting for it to end. There was nothing I could do and I had to deal with it. I thought maybe, just maybe after that experience my silly fear would be gone, alas it is not. Cognitive behavioral therapy anyone haha!!!
Does anybody else have an irrational fear??
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I hate festivals....ohhhh festivals.
I miss lightening as it is much less frequent here than on the prairies, but damn a month is a lot of storm time.
I don't think I have any irrational fears. All of my fears are well thought out and very reasonable. Take my fear of bodies of water (natural or man-made) that are deep enough to drown a human being. Yes, they scare me. But I can point to specific events in my life that have traumatized me.
To answer your question, no, I don't have an irrational fear.
Lightening is very cool if it's a bit away in the distance.
As for irritational fears, I always worry about locking myself out of my loft and carry keys down to the garage even if I know - know - that the door is unlocked. Don't know why.
I love watching storms. One thing that is hard for me is staying home alone at night. If my husband has to go out of town (which is very rare) I sleep with a kitchen knife under my pillow and the kids sleep in my room. I will even sleep with the tv or a light on in the house so that it looks as though someone is up.
I also don't like walking past vacant houses or being in houses that are vacent. When I walk past them, I feel as though something in the house is staring me down and it gives me the heebee jeebies.
And clown, but I'm not even going to get into that. The clown on Polterguest was enough for me.
There, I said it.
I hate spiders something fierce.
I love a good lightning storm. Love it. It's like the Fourth of July to me, or Canada Day as it relates to most of your readers.
Spiders! Terribly araid of them. Not much I can do though, they are just plain creepy.
Rawbean, that's a new one, I've not heard festivals before...
WIGSF, not a swimmer then? I can be killed by lightning...but I still think it's irrational.
2DP, perhaps you're afraid that your wife will lock you out haha!
DM, vacant houses do have a creep factor but an interesting one. I kind of dig them for the spookiness.
Wiwille and Scott, I too am deathly afraid of spiders...they even make me cry sometimes shhhhhh
Not too many fears, I'm not great with heights. I duck some times when I'm driving into a parking garage with a low ceiling, that makes no sense.
Just remember your odds of winning the lotto are higher than getting struck by lightning. Does that help? haha
I have said this on my blog, but mine is vomit or catching some icky virus. I'd never make it as a nurse, right? ew
ps
As far as the spiders one, I recorded "Arachnophobia" and am going to watch it tonight! lol
And I can be, and nearly was, killed by water, thus making the fear rational.
Not really...all my fears are -totally- rational. :P
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