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Reason #453 why the ocean scares me to death

Posted almost 5 years ago
Don't get me wrong. I think the ocean is beautiful, but there is a reason I have lived in landlocked Ohio for 32 years. Things like this:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_fe_st/new_zealand_colossal_squid_4I have this recurring dream all the time where I am floating on a tiny raft on the open sea in the middle of the night with nothing but black skies and water for as far as the eye can see. I am sure there is some depressing Freudian meaning to the dream, but to me it just means the ocean freaks me out. Have you seen 'Open Water'? That is my own personal Hell! Time for a song.
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  1. RaG3aH0liC
    RaG3aH0liC says I am right there with you, Blair. I like to look at the ocean and even play in it sometimes, but that thing is scary as hell. Undertows, giant sea beasts, and way too much crap you can't see....... I'll stay here in the mountains, thanks! Good story there on the giant squid who could have swallowed the Nautilus.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  2. sugarbaby
    sugarbaby says Perhaps you should go to sleep with several trunks full of stuff from Hammacher Schlemmer.... ahhh, to sail away from the things of man....
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  3. chulsmith
    chulsmith says my wife worked with the cousin of the person on which open water was based. umm... what the fuck did i just write? my wife had a co-worker. that co-worker had a cousin. that cousin was stranded in the middle of the ocean. open water is based on the cousin's story. hmmm. that was a little better, but not much...
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  4. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Linda...your love of that movie is touching...but i don't think you grasp my irrational fear....i am trembling just watching this clip! And Meg Ryan is a howewrecker! It was her own home...but still ;-) Hahaha....i think I follow you Chulsmith...did that happen in Australia?
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  5. kaleef
    kaleef says i second that. i have a healthy respect for the water, lived on an island (2miles x 4) for several years. just fine on a board or a boat, but i would get panic attacks when i went under (um... i attempted snorkeling three times) and scuba? are you _joking_? wtf. if we belonged in the water we would have gills. but the beauty and the intensity are awe inspiring. especially the pacific, you can feel the force. the power. open water? please... i don't watch scary shit that tries to scare the shit out of me.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  6. chulsmith
    chulsmith says blair ::: not sure where it happened. but i know that the cousin's family wasn't supportive of them making the film. they might have even tried to block its release, but i'm not certain. maybe that's why it's 'based' on a true story. and that's one big mofing squid. DAMN!
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  7. Anna
    Anna says Aw, B. I lurve the ocean; or more correctly the sea. I think I would suffocate if I lived in a place where I couldn't see it. I guess it depends on what each of us is used to. Oh, and that dream means you've watched Titanic too many times :P
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  8. sugarbaby
    sugarbaby says A Thalassophic! Oh my! Sorry--is this better??
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  9. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says We should do a dream analysis thread. I dream about going to jail sometimes, which must be my version of your going out to the ocean dream. It's the thing we're most afraid of, or at least it represents something we're most afraid of.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  10. Joxley
    Joxley says I don't mind the sea (which is good cos in the UK you can never be more than 71.8 miles away from it),but I'd rather have fish'n'chips than giant squid...
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  11. kat3260
    kat3260 says Mmmm calamari rings the size of tractor tires.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  12. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says Good, I thought I was the only one with this phobia. I get a little freaked out even in lakes, let alone swimming in the middle of the ocean.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  13. AnonymousAmy
    AnonymousAmy says Blair, I live a mile from the ocean....and i haven't set foot in it for over 15 years. First of all, the movie Jaws happened.....then all the reports of hypodermic needles in the ocean in the early 90's. Somewhere along the line, i started to fear the ocean. So yeah, unless I have to save one of my kids....i can live without going in it.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  14. gympumpkin
    gympumpkin says That's why I'm glad I live right next to a Great Lake. I go outside, and I still see water all the way to the horizon just as you do at the ocean, but there are no squid in it :)
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  15. blueone51
    blueone51 says Kat – find a swimming pool full of red sauce for those rings and I’m so there.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  16. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says I'm with blue on this one, calamari anyone?
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  17. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Linda...you are getting closer, but the running on this one bothers me...i am also afraid of exercise. Amy....not to mention Florida is like the shark attack capital of the northern hemishpere! Jox...that is an amazing statistic. 72 miles really? This hurts my relocation plan. Seafood sounds so good...but I only have an hour for lunch. Man, I think I will actually go to Long John Silver's! I haven't been there since I was a kid...I am really taking my life into my hands getting fast food sea food!
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  18. Dale
    Dale says I've been landlocked far too long. I grew up in SoCal, even surfed as a teenager, and I still love the ocean. The surest way to peel me off the puter is to point me to a surfing movie, or contest.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  19. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Dale surfs??? Man...i learn something new every day in mog land
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  20. ookpik
    ookpik says Fun fact: giant squid makes gross calamari, because of the bitter chemicals in their tissues that help them survive in the deeps. (The second or third episode of Errol Morris' "First Person" was about a New England giant squid researcher who tried eating some tentacles that washed up on a beach. I love Errol Morris.) There has to be a name for fear of the open ocean. It seems so reasonable to freak out when you lose sight of land, or when you can't see the bottom. It's all so disorienting and out of proportion.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  21. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Google rocks! Thalassophobia - Fear Of The Ocean or the Sea http://phobialist.com/reverse.html#O-
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  22. Neill
    Neill says The is only one thing that makes me uneasy is the sea; .
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  23. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says My God....that is amazing footage! llook at the size and speed of that thing!
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  24. dangerpilot
    dangerpilot says one time the ocean tried to eat me and I'll never forgive it for that.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  25. chucky
    chucky says hahaha^^ I used to love the ocean, I was a beach baby. (Literally - I was born in a beach town and spent the first 18 months of my life there) But back in...was it 2003?...when that spate of shark attacks happened, I decided the ocean wasn't all that cool. I love looking at it, I could definitely handle being on a boat..I just don't want to swim in it.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  26. chulsmith
    chulsmith says i think i'd like the ocean if there just wasn't so much water...
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  27. etcvisitor
    etcvisitor says personally im just afraid of taking my shirt off in public, thats why you wont catch me dead near the ocean. horses scare me too, i dont think sea horse scare me, but you couldnt get me on one in a million years.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  28. fistula spume
    fistula spume says The sea is a harsh mistress. It seems weird that there have been so many colossal and giant squid sitings as of late. Are they forming an army to take back the waters? I also want to know what our many legged foes taste like. I see a summer horror blockbuster on the horizon.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  29. etcvisitor
    etcvisitor says i just want a summer horror movie about the giant catfish that live in the mississippi... some of them can get to be the size of a volkswagon beatle. i know that isnt as big as a giant squid, but this thing is a catfish for pete's sake, thats a huge catfish.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  30. sugarbaby
    sugarbaby says When I was 3, I had a dream my bed tried to eat me. I slept in my parents room for a couple of years after that. Fortunately, I have since gotten over my fear of beds, thank goodness. Ok Blair. So forget nature. Someone sent this to me earlier and hopefully you aren't afraid of nebbishy men who stick things up their nose...
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  31. goodmusiconly
    goodmusiconly says I love the ocean ... but I had a frightening scuba diving experience once, in addition to sharing the water with a shark while boogy boarding ... probably just as well that I don't live near one! Right now the only thing that scares me is being gone from mog from now until Sunday!
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  32. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says There you go Linda! Third time is a charm!
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  33. Hmmm
    Hmmm says Ahh finally.. so this is the sun kil moon Modest Mouse cover I've heard so much about. I like. Thank you.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  34. UtahSpike
    UtahSpike says I love water, love getting my feet wet, be it a puddle or rolling up my jeans to go paddling . . . I have even have a special pair of specially designed paddling shoes in case theres anything nasty lurking in the tideline so it harms them & not my feet. Found them on the internet a few years back & love them ! Oh and I love rock pools - the worlds coolest stuff can be found in them. Man the big in kid in me is alive & well tonight. Only scary sea experience is wanting to go for a wade up near Point Reyes in California and not being able to because the seals were breeding just up the coast and the sharks were using that part of the shore as a buffet . . . a very sobering thought considering that amazing piece of video further up the comments list Oh & this thought does scare the crap out of me . . . the human body has the same % of water as the earths surface, how long before the fish take a look at us as a new home ?
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  35. blueone51
    blueone51 says See what you're missing:
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  36. tomiiko
    tomiiko says i love the H2O. I went went White shark cage diving a year and half ago. Giant sea creatures fascinate me but probably for the same reason they freak you out. Squid are said to have exceeded humans in biomass which initially is spooky sounding until you realize that ants have more biomass than like...anybody. Cephalopods are smart and wierdos like to think they'll take over the planet eventually. This is a freaky clip but i find it kind of hoaky that someone sat there and filmed it instead of helping the guy out.
    Permalink posted 02/22/2007
  37. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says White shark cage diving???? I have no words....but you have my undying respect! OK....i could watch about 15 seconds of the video you linked to!! Of everything in the ocean...i think octopuses freak me out more than anything else!! I know....i am probably broken beyond repair,,,but all of those tentacles and all of that ink just render me petrified!
    Permalink posted 02/23/2007

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