Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

Boards

Music Social More…

Trypophobia

hip_young_gunslinger [Edit] [Delete] 16:40, 17 June '10

If any of you saw that "lotus breast" image in the "Boobs that are genuinely shocking" thread, and were hideously freaked out by it, this may be the explanation.

I consider myself to have a pretty strong constitution, but that pic freaked the fuck out of me, and several hours later I still feel itchy and horrible. I looked it up (it is a fake, of course) I saw a link to trypophobia and, stupid as it sounds, suddenley found a word to describe what I've felt for years - the irrational fear of holes.

Seems some people have issues with things like sponges, crumptets, and the ends of pipes, which thankfully don't bother me, but I definitely understand being disturbed by the lotus boob pic and remember being freaked out by similar things in the past (including a nature documentary where a woodpecker burrowed into a telegraph pole and stored acorns in the holes... shudder).

Anyway, I'm sure this is random rambling, tl;dr, but I was REALLY freaked out and finding out about this has kind of reassured me.

What are your mad phobias? (I would have said "don't have any" until today.


Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND