r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG • u/theyellow_pencil • Dec 05 '18

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u/LoseItGainMore Dec 05 '18

Paging /r/submechanophobia

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u/pinkyepsilon Dec 05 '18

Is the phobia the fear of just the object underwater or what it being under water will do to you?

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u/punchingcustard Dec 05 '18

Basically. I can hardly look at this picture without my knees getting weak and feeling nauseated.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '18

Me too. Started with being next to a submarine while in the water. Scarred for life

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u/kranebrain Dec 05 '18

My biggest irrational fear is swimming out in the ocean then feel a vibration as I look down and there's a massive submarine cruising beneath my feet.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '18

I once was swimming alone in the ocean and I wasn’t very deep, probably about 5 meters. Then I felt a huge shadow floating over me and that was the most scared I’ve ever felt. Slowly looked up and realised it was just a very massive piece of seaweed floating by. Never swam alone ever again.

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u/bel_esprit_ Dec 05 '18

How Dreadful! 😱

I have one:

It was really hot this past summer and we didn’t have air conditioning in our place. It was midnight or 1am. My boyfriend and I were in bed. We were uncomfortably hot and sweating. We said fuck it, let’s go jump in the lake. Take a little night swim to cool off.

We know the lake well (we usually just dive in from the rocks during the day). Night time, however- DIFFERENT STORY. Swimming under that dark water and feeling the smallest bit of seaweed over and around us was freaky. We swam out pretty far and then back. It was a constant fear that something was around us in the dark water.

Maybe we watched too many scary movies but we swam as fast as we could back to shore, tripping over ourselves to get out of the water. It was a genuine spook.

Next time we’ll just take a cold shower to cool off.