So, what freaks you out?

[Erisianmonkey]

Claustrophobic here.

I have a touch of that, along with agoraphobia. Keeping the panic circuits down on public transit can be a challenge.

Chickens!

When I was about 3 or so, we visited a family member in the country who had a neighbor with a big, mean ole rooster wandering about. He jumped me and gaffed me pretty good, even drew blood.

So now, here I am, at 6' - 3", 230 lbs, and toting a phobic fear of chickens! I can control the panicky, sweaty, heat-pounding reaction somewhat through purposeful desensitization over the years, but I still don't like 'e.

Sneaky little b@$!@*ds fi you ask me. Always out to get you.

We raised chickens when I was a kid. I was reaching in to get a hen off some eggs once and she pecked me in between the bones of the index and ring finger about 1/2 way up my hand. I still have no idea how she managed it. I had a bruise that spread to the entire back of my hand, and the family had chicken that night. (to my surprise I didn't get yelled at. Much.)

Oh and those Burger King comercials are just plain freaky. Imagine waking up with this staring at you in the morning, eh Erisianmonkey?

Worse, imagine a nightmare with that thing popping up at you from every corner that you can think of. Now make it one of those nightmares that just when you think you are up and out of it, it starts all over again because you didn't wake up from your dream, you woke up in it.

BTW- Grant, I really hope you don't have to imagine that. You deserve it for posting a picture of that thing.