[Closed] Fear of holes is real

I used to love a bit of crumpet, now you have ruined it 🙁

That first one is unsettling

That first one is unsettling

It really is. It's like a bag of alien eyeballs.

Eyeball phobia is a thing too I think.

This was on my Facebook feed the other day with the line "what happens next will blow your mind" or something similar.

I don't mind crumpets but I really hate the first photo.
There was a thread about phobias on here last year that mentioned this.

Urghh, makes me feel really anxious and sick looking at those things.

@MSP Sorry, but it's for your own good 😳

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Fear this, then; a toad that carries its young embedded in the skin on its back:

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No discernible effect on me at all.

Don't Google Mangoworms if the first image disturbs you.

You can have a phobia of anything irrational, that's the point.

The OP had best avoid [url= http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20318,00.html ]Blackburn[/url]

Yep, the weird holey pattern thing makes me feel quick queasy, rather than scared.

Video of that toad thing with it's young breaking out of it's back also weirds me out & there's a jpeg doing the rounds of the teeth in the skull of a baby that makes me feel quite unsettled.

With me it is definitely something to do with patterns in nature, although honeycomb etc doesn't bother me....

That seed pod.....bleurgh.....

Someone's buttered that crumpet [b]COOOOOOLLDD!!!![/b]. Aaaaaaaarrrr?rrrrrgggggggghhhhh!!!!!

Not me, but I know someone who is freaked out by it - me, I'm freaked by that tic extraction! (Linked on the Metro page)
Insects under the skin, now THAT is something to be weirded out by.

I regret making this thread. Anybody want to stay up all night with a flash light and a hammer 😯

insects under the skin, now THAT is something to be weirded out by.

You've Googled my suggestion then?

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Perhaps you need to adopt the mantra

'Every Hole is a Goal'

That toad scored big...

Last hole I had the misfortune to fall into left me looking like a buttered crumpet 😛

This just made me gag. Will not google something Drac mentions ever ever again

Click at your peril

Mangoworms was what I thought of with that first pic. Rationally, fine. But I feel a bit queasy.

EDIT: just watched that link. Good grief, I don't know what boiled eggs that guy's eating.

Damn your eyes 😯 That video is.......

You and Drac should be banned everyday.....i'm off to find someone to hold 🙁

You know, I never thought I had any phobias, let alone one of holes... But something about that first image makes my skin crawl.

Bleurgh... *shudders*

Must stop kneeling on the gravel:

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Back in 94 I came back from a 6 month holiday in Zimbabwe with a new pet embedded in my leg 😀 , when out there I was told to always iron my clothing that I hung out to dry on a hot heat iron as there is a little fly known as a "jigga" that likes to lay its eggs/larvae on damp clothing, especially seams. To be honest I was always sceptical of this but as the houseboy dealt with all the washing I didn't pay attention to it.
In my last week in the country I went up to visit friends who had a house in Vic Falls as we were going rafting/bungee jumping/flying and bush hiking for my final week before I flew back home, as there was no houseboy (shock horror 😉 ) I ended up washing my own clothing so hung it out to dry and as we were heading out to the Explorers bar for a long drinking session I pulled my damp bush shorts from the line and wore them which was a mistake as the thick seam that ran up the inner thigh rubbed a red weal on my inner thigh. I thought no more of it until a few days after I returned to Scotland and picked the head off a rather unsightly large spot were the shorts had rubbed me raw and noticed something moving inside, I tried to grab it with tweezers but the little ****er buried deeper 😯 . Straight off up to local docs/health centre and explained I had something wriggling in my thigh, a nurse saw me and I explained where I'd been, what I thought it was and she confirmed "yep, there's something in there-wait here and I'll get the doctor to have a look".

Eventually the doctor came and confirmed there was something in there (no shit Sherlock), to cut a gruesome story short it ended up with me having a local anaesthetic and 6 stitches as they had to cut me rather deeply to make sure they got all of the little critter out, it wasn't really that little once it was removed.

Never use that story as a chat up line.....gross. I hope your OH makes you keep your leg in the shed.

(Starts scratching leg)

I would never eat crumpets as a kid as I thought little creatures lived in the holes!

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

Best not watch Star Trek II then 😉

*The Wrath Of Khan

I thought I was probably alone in this fear. First pic especially, and that weird Japanese girl(wtf?) just send shivers. The idea of embedded holes in flesh especially is almost enough to make me wretch.

Is there any scientific reasoning behind this phobia? Or, some kind of fight or flight reaction?

Crumpets I'm generally ok with, I think it's because the holes aren't usually a regular shape or pattern. Or maybe just because they are delicious.

Holes in crumpets. Finbar would be Fnaring himself to death.

slimjim78 - Member

I thought I was probably alone in this fear. First pic especially, and that weird Japanese girl(wtf?) just send shivers. The idea of embedded holes in flesh especially is almost enough to make me wretch.

Is there any scientific reasoning behind this phobia? Or, some kind of fight or flight reaction?

Funnily enough, until recently I thought it was just me that got freaked out by this stuff.
The article I saw (via a FB link) basically said that the internet is allowing people to share and discuss rare 'conditions' more readily and several new illnesses/phobia's/ailments have been characterised as a result.

The article I read basically said that no one knows exactly why people have a phobia of holes, but mentioned something about it may be a response to moulds or fungus' that occur naturally and we would want to avoid; hence the feeling queasy thing, so you naturally avoid them.

I remember walking home from school as a kid & there was a patch on someone's tarmacked driveway where some plants were pushing through. The regular pattern of broken holes with little shoots poking through used to make me feel really ill; I had to remember to avert my eyes as we got near.

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..... 😀

[u]This[/u] is fear of holes; I love this huge painting in Manchester City Art Gallery:

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(Briton Riviere: 'In Manus Tuas Domine' 1879)

Is it only wee holes that give the fear? is it the actual hole, or the thought of some wee creepy thing inside?. Do big holes have the same effect on you, ie that huge hole in the ground in Turkmenstan?.

Genuinely interested.

There was a GIF going about on here of some kind of grub type thing coming out below a guys hairline, tweezers come into view and the thing goes back below the skin.
I have to say, I didn't like that much at all!.

Nobeerinthefridge - Member

Is it only wee holes that give the fear? is it the actual hole, or the thought of some wee creepy thing inside?. Do big holes have the same effect on you, ie that huge hole in the ground in Turkmenstan?.

Dunno exactly what it is with me, but it's generally holes in some kind of regular pattern; they can be filled or not filled with something and don't even have to be 'gruesome'. It's weird because I can acknowledge the natural beauty of that lotus seed pod & how clever it actually is, but it still weirds me out.

Some people seem to get the same feeling looking at photo's of stacked pipes end-on etc. but that kind of thing doesn't affect me. The holes in crumpets don't bother me, nor does the regular arrangement of something like honeycomb.

Regarding the large hole comment - it's not really the hole itself, but a regular pattern of them, so no a large hole in the ground wouldn't have any affect on me....but a pattern of large holes photographed aerially from some distance away might.....

Weird....

This w[b]hole [/b]thread is full of weird

IGMC

Eventually the doctor came and confirmed there was something in there (no shit Sherlock), to cut a gruesome story short it ended up with me having a local anaesthetic and 6 stitches as they had to cut me rather deeply to make sure they got all of the little critter out, it wasn't really that little once it was removed.

Man this thread is awful!

I started reading and I was ok with the crumpets, but not so keen on the first pic, which made my skin crawl a bit. Then I made the mistake of watching the "dog with worms" link.

In quick succession I had crawling skin, then a funny bitter juice forming in the corners of my jaw, and then I started getting itchy all over. Now I'm fidgeting and scratching and typing.

Funny thing was I found it really hard to look away from the video for at least 2 minutes! What's that all about???

spekkie - Member

Funny thing was I found it really hard to look away from the video for at least 2 minutes! What's that all about???

Didn't watch the video, but I am the same with other video's I have seen & the images.
I am grossed out by it, but strangely fascinated at the same time, so want to look at them, but then get queasy doing so......

Fancy coming caving with us MrsFry?

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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:

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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?

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*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 [s]down there[/s] 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?

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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!

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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

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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.

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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 [b][u]STUCK IT IN THE HOLE IN THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD[/b][/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.

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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.

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

[i]DO NOT GOOGLE "WORM IN HOLE".[/i]

Argh!
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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.