Board 8 > I have NO IDEA why, but this picture kinda grosses me out.

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Yeah, this is trypophobia at work.

Pictures like that make me feel uneasy too. Sometimes I look for pictures like that intentionally to force myself to will through it, because I hate the idea that an abnormal pattern is all it takes to make me feel uneasy.

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Ace Detective in Sir Chris' Police
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I don't understand the controller grossing anybody out

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Miyamoto: [cats] are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well

The controller doesn't gross me out at all, the holes neither actually, first time I saw those I was grossed beyond belief but since I used to lurk /b/ back then I got desensitized to it pretty damn fast.

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do know what you mean though... that pic won't affect my mood, but while i look at it it makes my skin crawl
^that

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Oh, I am one yet many.

Ugh, that thing is disgusting.

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90s games > 00s games

I am definitely getting a reaction from these trypophobia pictures, but if feels good!

...I guess I have trypophilia.

I used to have a problem with trypophobia, but not anymore, and I'm pretty sure I know why. I was also terrified by close-up pictures of spider faces without exactly being afraid of spiders themselves because of how their eyes appear. Their eyes, in a way, look like a cluster of holes. There's an order to them, like the fact their usually structures into bands like the anterior row of eyes, a dorsal row, etc. but they still look like a cluster of holes.

Well anyway, through a process I got over that fear of spider eyes and I guess the trypophobia came along with it.

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Essy, Avian Enthusiast

Oh, sometimes when I was little I was also troubled by clusters of bubbles. I remember how I couldn't drink soda from a cup until all of the large bubbles had popped.

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Essy, Avian Enthusiast

What do you mean by through a process? Ninja training? Just curious, I think you left out the part that would be good to know.

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One Piece: Pirates with style!
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Oh, sorry. I just spent a summer looking at picture after picture of close-ups of spiders. Originally it was so bad that I would reveal the picture on my computer with my eyes closed, back up to the wall and slowly open my eyes again to gradually take it in.

Then I would step closer and closer. I would touch the picture on my screen.

Then I would repeat it with another one. Eventually it also led to staring at live jumping spiders up close, or through a camera. I'd take my own pictures of them. Eventually it did the trick.

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Essy, Avian Enthusiast

Right on.

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One Piece: Pirates with style!
-= Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action =-

I don't have trypophobia so I'm not grossed out by sponges or anything like that

But that doesn't stop me from being grossed out by a bunch of holes in arms or something like that

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......are there seriously people with a fear of sponges out there?

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Yeah, I'm not so far out there that I'm afraid of sponges.

In fact I'm not even afraid of clusters. Just, like, those photoshoped pictures where they mesh lotus pods and other assorted hives with human arms or human genitals or things like that to make it look like they've got little holes all over that part of their body, those things make my skin crawl.

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Ace Detective in Sir Chris' Police
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those lamprey fingers did nothing for me, weird

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Ryoko