Acrophobia

[Grayfox]

Vertigo is often used (incorrectly) to describe a fear of heights

Who is scared of heights?

I am.

And in some games I get chills down my back when I look down from a high place.

 

[Lissa]

Hell, yes!

My other half laughs at my reaction when we're watching a film and there's a shot down from the top of a tall building!

Falling from even a fairly small height can hurt. I once forgot to let go of a bale of hay I was throwing down from a barn, and went with it. Lucky for me I landed on the bales I'd already thrown down and only broke my collarbone. It could have been fatal if I'd hit the concrete floor.

 

[phillgt2002]

Lots of 'phobias'

Personally.. I only have a fear of heights only when I notice a sense of scale. If I don't pay much attention I get by fine. It also scares me when I come to realize how I could possibly fall to my death.

 

[Dean]

Hm... well no. I was "working" with a chimney sweeper a few months back, and I really had no issue walking on roofs, and/or chimneys.

 

[Jet Badger]

I'd say I'm aware of heights. I don't feel too comfortable standing on the edge of a 10 story building but I don't start to panic.

 

[edawg456]

I'm truly scared of heights. If I'm on top of a 20 story building, I won't come near the edge.

 

[GranTurismo916]

Yes, but only heights where it's extremely high and you can fall off easily. The NYC train railways don't count.

 

[XS]

If I'm on a rooftop I get that dizzy feeling, but if I'm hiking in the mountains then I'm completely fine, even on shear cliffs and the like.

 

[photonrider]

I'm getting phobophobia.

 

[roflcoptor]

And in some games I get chills down my back when I look down from a high place.

I get this when I'm watching my other half play any of the Assassins Creed series... climbing up those buidlings, right up to the very peak, standing on tiptoes to "synchronise" or whatever it is... then launching into a swandive into a pile of hay some 100ft below... kinda freaks me out. How odd.

 

[kikie]

I'm getting phobophobia.

Don't worry. As long as your phobophobia doesn't interfere with your other phobia, you're gonna be ok.

 

[photonrider]

Now you've given me a phobia about over-worrying! Kikieeeee!

Urgh.

 

[Jimlaad43]

I don't find the heights the problem, its just the potential for falling that I hate.

 

[kikie]

Oops, wrong thread.

 

[Slash]

Depends on the situation. Roller coasters? Perfectly fine. Looking over the edge of a bridge? Freaked the hell out.

 

[Antonisbob]

Nope.

I'm getting phobophobia.

Like the song?

 

[kikie]

Mmmmm,

 

[Slash]

That picutre?


🤬 that.


🤬 THAT.

 

[Omnis]

That pic looks pretty dodgy.

 

[photonrider]

Same picture hangs on the living room wall of a neighbor. He's a roofer. I should ask him about it; will be seeing him sometime tomorrow - I give his son guitar lessons.

The first time I walked into his home and saw it hanging on his wall (about 24 X 18 inches maybe, framed and thickly matted) I stood there mesmerised for a long while. I remember asking him if it was real and he looked at me like I was stupid. Did I mention he was a roofer?

 

[GregTheStig]

Like this guy? (There's a reason why I didn't embed that, FYI).

It all depends on the situation. If I'm at the edge of some tall structure I freak the 🤬 out every time. On a plane, however, and I'm completely fine. Same goes with my dad, who is actually an airline captain. He hates ladders more than 10 ft high yet he flies at 35,000 ft every week

 

[Skython]

Depends... If there's a solid barrier of some sort, it's fine. But a glass window, or one of those glass floors that allow you to see right down to the ground far beneath you... Or no barrier... Stuff that, that's just uncomfortable. I don't panic, or scream like there's a crazed murderer on the loose 5 meters in front of me. But I'm still worried and uncomfortable. I just move on and pull a really awkward facial expression like most do when they're in that situation. So I don't know if I would call it a fear, no. I just call it having a sense of what is secure and safe and what isn't.

 

[dxm8975]

I'm kind of a terrible acrophobe too... I don't really feel snug standing over at the hedge of a room on the 10th floor or so glazed in all the aspects of my surrounding

 

[Slash]

If I'm walking on a bridge I always try to get in the middle of it and get across as fast as possible.

 

[Driving Park]

I'll just leave this here:



The ultimate acrophobia video (as in, don't watch unless you a) are not an acrophobe or b) are an acrophobe and enjoy getting scared from the comfort of your home). Watch with the sound muted...the commentator is annoying.

I don't find the heights the problem, its just the potential for falling that I hate.

This is basically it for me. Despite posting the video I just posted, I'm an acrophobe for this reason. I also get vertigo.

...and yet, I'm a skyscraper enthusiast.

 

[benneh]

Mmmmm,

I'm a Union Ironworker, that pic is legendary. The next floor down is planked in however.

 

[Slash]

I've seen the video before. I think. Is that the one you can see the curve of the Earth?

 

[Dean]

Hm... I could do that, for a living 💡. Not that bad, really .

 

[Jet Badger]

Meh. He had something to hold on to the whole time, though at the very top it was a bit disturbing. Type 'russian tower' in youtube, see a guy doing pullups few hundred m in the air.

Edit:

 

[GranTurismo916]

Soon I'm gonna have Panophobia. xD