Fear of holes is real

Fancy coming caving with us MrsFry?

Mr Farmer – you need help, that is my worst nightmare!

Is that toad back there in a frying pan?

That’s something different. Not freaked by the many holes, but always been freaked by the idea of caving, particularly constricted stuff like the first picture. Heart rate is up now even thinking about it.

Isn’t the hole thing like the heights thing? I”m not good up a 30foot ladder cleaning gutters out but I’m fine at the top of a skyscraper looking down. Big holes are fine. Small holes, particularly with things in them, make my scalp crawl (currently happening !)

I hope your OH makes you keep your leg in the shed.

Guffawing at this.

If I saw something bury itself in my leg I don’t think I could walk anywhere for fear it knew it had been discovered and was off to eat my brain.

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oops, sorry

Actually it does occur to me that there is a specific type of hole that does give me the willies. Bell mouth spillways in reservoirs:

They just look dangerous.

But Shirley they’re not – isn’t that the point? The lip is *just below the surface* to make it less likely to go in?

*it was at this point, Bongo left the thread*

Where’s that SOM? Never seen one of those, looks ace!

Ladybower

Bongo, still here?

NSFW language…

Bongo, still here?

Sadly, yes 🙁

That makes me feel sick. I wonder if he’s still down there caving?

That makes me feel sick. I wonder if he’s still down there caving?

That’s what I want to know now. Was he trying to go down, or trying to come out?

Did he just accept that this was his life now, and he turned into a cave person living off discarded caver rubbish?

For whatever reason this makes me want to puke. I now feel queasy having searched for inside fish gills.

I am clearly a bit odd.
All those pics of things inside skin just make me want to grab a pair of tweezers or pliers and get started.
Caving however can **** right off, didn’t like that at all (talking proper caving not the mine tour stuff, tried it didn’t like it)

Where’s that SOM? Never seen one of those, looks ace!

That particular one is in Wales. Here’s one at Ladybower

I also still have a dislike of earwigs as I used to think they burrowed backwards into your ears and through into your brain.

I used to think the same! Why on earth did someone decide to call them earwigs (pokes about in ears to check they’re empty)

Don’t like caving for the idea of being stuck and dying/claustrophobia!

Watched too many horror movies.

Watched too many horror movies.

Like the one a few posts up.

This is what i think of your caving

Films are made for a reason! to warn people that there are creepy mutant inbred monsters waiting inside those dark places, to munch on your bones.

‘The Descent’ is a warning to all people to stay above ground 😯

I’m quite worried about this ‘hole.

When I was a kid we had a train driver give a talk at school about the dangers of playing on railway lines and dropping things off bridges. He had been hit in the head by a chunk of masonry thrown through the cab window. To demonstrate the severity of the injury and the resulting surgery he took out a cigarette (this was in the ’70s) and STUCK IT IN THE HOLE IN THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD[/u].

At this point approximately 120 screamed.

Also.

DO NOT GOOGLE “WORM IN HOLE”.

Ever.

creepy mutant inbred monsters waiting inside those dark places

I assumed they’d just bumped into one of the Leeds caving club meets.

That Japanese girl with holes in her arms & legs is so obviously photoshopped that I don’t get a reaction to it, although I have seen more subtle versions where just one of those seed pods has been ‘imbedded’ in someone’s back and that sets me off…..

Yes, weirdly I know its photoshopped – rationally I should be able to irradicate any feeling of discomfort – but for whatever reason a) I am drawn to look closer at it, and b) the mere process of looking at it, and the thought of those things embedded in the skin, and possibly how that would feel – just makes me dizzy/giddy/freaked out.
Its such a weird phenonemenoenom.

The images of really large holes dont do much at all – but if the pattern is repeated and regular, and the image is zoomed out enough as to make the image more abstract then id imagine it could evoke a reaction in me.

The cave shot.. im completely immune. In fact, id love to be a caver if I didnt have the overall shape of a barrell. However, being stuck in the cave at a section of wall that happened to have loads of burrows in the rock face, or a section of mud with burrows.. AAARRRGFFGGHGHFFFFSSSS!!

Burrows is a key word actually. I think the thought of ‘things’ burrowing away, partially unseen is the kicker.
I wonder of this is part of the same mindset that seeing a lady wearing particularly sexy lingerie is always more appealing than seeing her completely starkers.
Obviously both scenarios are appealing, but the thought of what is hidden beneath the lingerie is always the bit that tantalises a wee bit more. Obscure comparison perhaps, but I can see a possible tangent.

Also, do any afflicted with this condition also find ship wreck photos/ submerged vehicles/ sunken buildings completely disturbing??
I do. I love to look at the images, but I get irrationally freaked out by them.
THEY AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE UNDERWATER! WHATS INSIDE THEM?????!!! IT’s DARK DOWN THERE!!
Argh!

Octopus tentacles.. Argh!

Man, I feel like I might be sick. I’m having weird holey flashbacks.

Also.

DO NOT GOOGLE “WORM IN HOLE”.

Ever.

Of course now I have to, once mentioned it must be Googled….

….. but I’ll have to wait until I get home, just in case it’s rude and sets the work firewall ablaze 🙂

It isn’t rude. Maggots in eye sockets and a worm being pulled out of a young lady’s face were as much as I absorbed before I pushed my monitor over and bit through the power lead.

Did someone leave a black dildo there on the right?

I just googled ‘holes in skin’ and found a bunch of images that I wanted to save and paste here as prime examples.

I found that I literally couldnt hang around long enough to save the image, I had a cold sweat and felt sick.. I had to close the page and compose myself!
Nothing has ever made me have that reaction before, and i’ve looked at some real grot on the internets before.

Lord I hate it. MAKE IT GO AWAY!

Did someone leave a black dildo there on the right?

Are you suggesting the cavers were not the only thing being forced up tight passages that day?

Did someone say Dido?

Also.

DO NOT GOOGLE “WORM IN HOLE”.

Ever.challenge accepted

<edit> I can only assume you’re getting different results due to your/my internet history.

DO NOT GOOGLE “WORM IN HOLE”.

Argh!

Did someone say Dido?

No. They said dildo.

How do the people with a fear of holes feel about biscuits with small holes in?

too small to worry about – if they were larger and ‘crater-like’, then there would probably be an issue

All joking aside, I’m on the verge of “losing the plot” with myself over that mango worms vid I watched this morning. I can feel I’m barely on the right side of standing shaking my arms and legs as if I have something horrid on me that won’t get off!

This is just so not good. I hope I forget it soon!

Yes, i’ve oversensitised myself with this thread. At lunch I was out with a colleague in his car telling him about this issue, still feeling a bit giddy, and I couldn’t even look at his dash board, as the 4 air vent pods were a bit too much..
So I looked out the window instead at the queue of traffic and all the big holey alloy wheels..

I genuinely think I may end up needing counselling.

Signing out of this thread now. Good luck fellow hole freaks.

Well, I challenge anyone to eat their lunch and watch that vid I linked..

I still feel sick.

DT78 that’s the one that’s done me in. Sweet Jesus it’s grim.