[Courtesy of Phobialist.com]- Apeirophobia-fear of infinity
- Athazagoraphobia-fear of being forgotten or ignored or forgetting
- Automatonophobia-fear of ventriloquist’s dummies
- Cleithrophobia-fear of being locked in an enclosed place
- Coulrophobia-fear of clowns
- Gephyrophobia-fear of crossing bridges
- Macrophobia-fear of long waits.
- Merinthophobia-fear of being bound or tied up
- Mottephobia-fear of moths
- Pupaphobia-fear of puppets
- Selaphobia-fear of light flashes
- Taphephobia-fear of being buried alive
- Zemmiphobia-fear of the Great Mole Rat
- Aside from Zemmiphobia, a fear I’m confident most humans share (and if most humans fear the Great Mole Rat it cannot really be a phobia) my other phobias are all related to lack: lack of control, lack of power, lack of movement.
I have a phobia towards moths because the Moth is my personal metaphorical image of blind impulse and lack of direction and because when I was little a neighbor man told me that if the dust from the lawn moths got in my eyes I would go blind. Later his eldest son tied me to a carport post until I pied my pants so I have Merinthophobia too. Selaphobia isn’t really a phobia since I am actually incapacitated by flashing lights, but it is connected to a loss of control.
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