1) The Dark – I don’t know whether with me to call it a fear of the dark or just a general uneasiness in darkness. As a kid bedtime was terrifying for me and it took something that generated background noise to finally lull me to sleep. This is something that I still have today, although my use of a fan is also to keep the air from getting too stale in my room. But yes, I still maintain a healthy fear of the dark.
2) Bees/Wasps – Just get them the hell away with me. I want nothing to do with them. As long as they stay the optimal distance away form me we’re cool. This all occurred after having a Carpenter Bee land on my face when i was very young. All the running around and smacking it would not get it off of my face and since then I have wanted nothing to do with stinging bugs, let alone flying bugs.
3) Needles – Now this is a bit of a selective one. Sometimes I can be perfectly fine with getting a shot, but other times it’s like I’m some kind of spy and they’re about to inject me with truth serum. During the corrective surgery on my foot in 2009 I was actually watching the doctor work from beginning to end without any anxiety. But when it came time at the dentist to inject my gums to numb those teeth, oh man, I was not having it. Maybe it should be more like “Needles being injected in places that I can’t see.”
4) Earthquakes – Living in Los Angeles you’d think I should be used to them. Rolling back over to sleep after a 5.7, but no. The thing about earthquakes is unlike most natural disasters you can’t predict when they’ll hit and more importantly when one starts you have no idea how much worse it’s going to get. It may continue for another 5 seconds or 10 minutes. They are the ultimate mechanisms of humbling you into realizing just how out of control nature really is in the concrete sprawl.
