In addition to my sporadically bizarre fear of heights that I've already posted about....I have another totally irrational fear. Sharks. I've never encountered a shark (outside of an aquarium...and we won't go into the problems I caused in the "shark tunnel" at Seaworld), however, the fear is so real to me that when I go swimming in a pond, lake, river, or stream....I make sure someone else goes in first (my theory being that the shark will get them first...and then I'll know not to go in LOL). And yes...that is totally irrational behavior, because I'm even compelled to do it in bodies of water where my rational, logical mind insists that it is impossible for a shark to exist there. Doesn't matter...the illogical, lizard brain takes over. And I NEVER swim in the ocean....ever (which grieves me because I LOVE the ocean).
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