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What's your irrational fear?

#21
Killed_by_Death said:
I have a pretty rational (in my mind) fear of playing any instrument in front of someone else, even my own kin. (except for the bongos)
I thought I'd gotten over it, but then the one person outside the family that heard me "perform" later said that I have no sense of rhythm or pitch perception :sour:
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That can easily be confirmed or dismissed by recording yourself playing with a song, then listening to it. And if you are having issues, it's not the end of the world. My beautiful fiancée loves to sing, but is tone deaf. I have very good pitch, but it doesn't bother me one bit. She is having fun and doing what she loves. She knows it but sings anyway. Point is, she isn't a professional singer so who cares.

I can't play like victor Wooten, nor do I have the impeccable intonation that Jaco has. I still play a fretless and slap on a bass a little. I know I'll never be as good as them, but I enjoy playing.

KBD,

Bullocks to the haters!

You keep playing in your wonderfully imperfect way, just as we all do.
 
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#22
Stumbo said:
Klaustrophobia. Fear of Klaus.
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Agreed... absolutely terrifying.

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#26
("Dark Stages")... Dark stages with unseen corners of drum risers bristling with staples or nails. Dark stages with unnoticed coiled cables 3" high.. just right for snagging a foot.. Dark stages with overlooked dollies, just waiting to be stepped on.. as I see myself flying up into the air in slow motion, crashing down on my back, crushing 1 or 2 vertebrae. Dark stages with lighting trussing carrying 100's of pounds of LED lights becoming somehow unsecured and coming down like an obscene guillotine of galvanized steel and aluminum death. Dark stages with unnoticed edges that blend in with the floor coloring 3 1/2 ' below, waiting to break my wrists, ankle, or my neck. Dark stages with exposed 120VAC wiring in a outlet box that someone carelessly left the back off of...
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#29
Fender_Bender said:
Spiders, and not even the ones from Mars :angel:. I'm okay with killing them,it's the idea of one coming down from the ceiling when I'm sleeping that concerns me.
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Same here, since I've seem them come down from the ceiling over the bed. And they've bit my legs at night. I grew up with giant wood spiders in the house, that was the worst. I take strong measures to keep them out of the house and garage. So for me that's a rational fear.

So is being locked up for something I didn't do. Happens to people everyday.

Perhaps my biggest irrational fear is rubbing my nose just right, pushing a blackhead, etc. and snapping my nose right off.
 
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#31
RickyT said:
Someone pushing open a door just as I'm reaching for the handle on the otherside. I'm terrified I'm going to break a finger or something.
I always wait a second or two before reaching for the handle.....but what if I shouldn't have waited or I waited too long o_O
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I've had people catch my finger that way before and it hurts bad. Last guy i swear he did it on purpose, he looked at me before clearly pushing the door shut as I went to grab it, catching my finger in the latch.

so I jabbed him in the kidney, that dick. He was surprised, but got quickly away or he'd have gotten another too
 
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#33
Singing in public. I used to be a lead singer but for some reason that I can't explain, I developed an extreme phobia of singing when I was in my early 20s. I have no idea why. I am now in my 50s and will only sing harmonies and only if there are several people singing. I have recorded myself singing "Come Sail Away" by Styx and several other songs. My lead singer is one of the best vocalists I have ever heard has asked why he was in the band. He feels that I should sing lead. For some reason, I am scared to death to sing and do everything possible to avoid it. I wish I could over come this but I can't.
 
#34
Extraordinarily large insects, especially flying ones.
I have had recurring nightmares about a giant bumble bee that chases me in circles around the house.

This has happened IRL, though the real bee was not quite the size of a house cat.
 
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#37
JGbassman said:
That was one of the best things about having a mosquito tent over my cot when in the jungle. No worries about that. They could still crawl up the legs though... Ugh.
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To graduate J.E.S.T survival school in Cubi Pt. Philippines during 1984, the military students all had to endure a "rite of passage"" as it were, by finding the biggest cockroach we could grab, then quickly strip off all the extremities and pop the "meat" in our mouths and eat it. We didn't necessarily have to chew it, but we were all closely checked to ensure that the roach's body has actually been consumed. This, after only eating boiled monitor lizards and snails from the fresh water streams, we all were pretty much 'running on empty' at that point anyway. And no.. cockroaches have very little taste to them when eaten raw like that. Needless to say, we all graduated.. I was the lone sailor among a group of US Marines that had flown in from Okinawa, Japan to attend the jungle survival training school. The Negrito instructors really whooped it up as they watched us all eat bugs..
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#39
Bugs, lizards, snakes, they don't bother me, and I've eaten my fair share of them as well during extreme training experiences. The jungles of Panama and Honduras had some of the weirdest stuff I've ever seen, but thats for another story.

Those bird eating spiders there and camel spiders in Iraq were the ones that sent me up the wall.

You've never seen bugs unless you have been in the jungle...
 
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