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Originally Posted by lisamarie
The Example: Imagine seeing an enormous spider dangling directly in front of your face. Now clear your mind (sorry, didn't want to leave that image hanging around). A common way for people to have a phobic reaction to spiders or anything related to them, is to picture a spider completely oversized and far too close in their minds.
Spiders are tiny, well-mannered creatures that are far more frightened of you than you should be of them but try telling that to someone with that particular phobia.
So, why don't these phobic people notice the images they're creating?
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My particular phobias are heights and flying because I always imagine myself falling or crashing. I can't get it out of my head. The plane shakes a bit, an engine is going to fall off and down we go. The wind picks up, I'm going to get blown off the roof, all 180lbs of me and down I go.
The only time flying didn't bother me was going out to my father's funeral.