These Things Terrify Me!

[@DailyDoseOfInternet]

I'm scared of being in super crowded places. Everyone fears something :)

[@_harbinjer]

i fear missing a single DDOI

[@burny6666]

Shut up Jason!!! Sorry, It's one of Anita's tic. Love you, watch all your videos. :)

[@totelife6443]

Much wise..

[@rey5597]

Like actually scared or just don’t like it? Cuz I don’t like it lol

[@SeenGod]

hell yeah same, like when i’m at a place like the DMV and there’s a ton of people in there my anxiety goes through the roof

[@Ashley.D]

The trick with eye drops is to apply them into the lower lid then blink them into place. Until this year, aged 30, I would tilt my head back and try so hard to put a drop directly onto my cornea without blinking. My wife taught me to put them in my "eye well" and it was life changing.

[@idksomething274]

I balance a drop on my tear duct and then open my eye since I'm totally freaked out by things coming at my eyes.

[@mortified776]

Omg I am doing this next time (fwiw I'm almost 39 lol)

[@dopecarmilla]

As someone who has used contacts since the 8th grade I always wondered how most people got eyedrops in! I just white knuckled it straight into the cornea with great difficulty. Thanks for the tip!

[@stevensdad4877]

Just gently press the tip into your tear duct and apply at contact.

[@Peaceful_Zen_Life]

I can’t tell you how much I love the intro music!

[@terreliv]

oh my goodness yes stairs were never meant to *move*

[@Zminator1986]

FACTS

[@jc3drums916]

I'm with you on the eye drops. My eyes will involuntarily shut any time anything gets near them, or I know something will. Trying to hold them open with my fingers doesn't really help. Eye exams are always an ordeal, when it's time for that machine that blows the puff of air into your eyes, I usually end up having to re-do it several times.

[@Jason_Bover9000]

Im bad as we'll

[@Jason_Bover9000]

Mine is definitely contacts I don't wear them anymore wear glasses i had them in middle school

[@Tumbledweeb]

This is a perfectly normal biological response. There's nothing wrong with you, jC3drum.

[@Failedwizard1]

Echoing what Neurotic said; don't worry about your eyes reacting that way, it's the regular response since our eyes (and the area directly around them) are so much more vulnerable than the rest of our face.

[@Tumbledweeb]

Incidentally... Have any of you guys played "Dead Space 2" by any chance? :D

[@FroggyNight]

Instead of dropping the drops straight into the middle of your eye, try just placing ther bottle tip in the corner of your eye where your tears are naturally generated. Then just drop and blink as you normally would if you happened to be crying or what not.

[@tabularasa]

"we all need a snack" lol Love your dark humor. Stories about your mother's presence in your young life are... interesting

[@Tumbledweeb]

So basically... the Ultimate Hell for Sweet Anita would be having to administer eyedrops on an escalator during an earthquake?

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Bloody hell! 😬

[@swirledworld340]

That's actually the 10th circle of hell.

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

yep

[@doccerebrum5449]

For irrational fears you've got a decent rational to fear them 👏

[@cordongrouch9323]

*Rationale.

[@blue_spectrum2000]

Eyedrops and escalators and earthquakes!!! Oh my!!!!

[@Turrrtle]

1:17 Well, that Escalated quickly, heh🤣

[@The_Shiny_Red_Dingus_of_Mingus]

If you want stupid fears... custard! When I was small (in the early 80's), I was up past 9pm and eating raspberry Angel Delight. Unfortunately, it wasn't mixed well so it was pink & lumpy. While eating this, I was watching a program about Simon Weston... the Falkland war soldier who was badly burned on the face. They were peeling bandages off him while he was screaming, to reveal pink & lumpy flesh. Pink & lumpy food... pinky & lumpy screaming man. I can't eat food that may have hidden lumps, without gagging. No more custard! No more Angel Delight! No more trifle!

[@_harbinjer]

:(

[@Shaun72]

🫢..🤭

[@deleteriousss]

i love the comment section, it's so wholesome. it's really nice to see people being open about their fears and their experiences. sometimes i feel really stupid for fearing something others don't, but this entire comment section is validating. so proud of everyone whose commenting 🫶🫶

[@Jobe-13]

Anita: “I’m not usually a wuss” Terrance: “shuttup lol”

[@Tumbledweeb]

Terrence is such an ass! It's like she's sharing headspace with her annoying younger brother. :P

[@AnotherRandomLurker]

Terrance be bringin' the perfectly timed sass this time around! XD

[@senhorkorracha]

Chat going COGGERS at the escalator story is VILE. And I LOVE it.

[@insomniac-lj3vj]

same tho i hate eyedrops but i can touch my eye makes no sence

[@spoidabetch]

when i was a kid and the croc hype was real, there was a news story that a kid with a broke croc got his foot sucked into the metal teeth of an escalator at a mall near me. i guess it happens with loose laces too. i've been terrified of them ever since

[@anjairis]

I sometimes have a nasty dream (thankfully not had it in a long time now) that I reach up and feel my scalp and it's the texture of a corncob. Uncooked. It's very vivid and I feel it go frrrrrt frrrrrrt as my fingers bump over it. BRRRR!

[@deleteriousss]

this is so interesting? i honestly find the human mind baffling to think of this random shit and stress ourselves out so much with it? 😂

[@mojeanin]

I saw that escalator video and I've been scared of them ever since

[@RavenDwyre]

Helicopters make me super paranoid. I get hot and my hair stands up when I see one in the sky and I think they are watching me. I think it started when we were kids running around the block playing night games. There seemed to be a lot of jail breaks from the county jail then because there we would confuse the search helicopters accidentally by darting through bushes and yards.

[@kuro3552]

I'm terrified of escalators as well. And revolving doors >.

[@Soundtracks92]

I’m scared of accidentally swallowing helium and then farting so hard that I inflate and launch into space

[@warrenkemmer1307]

I'm same way with eye drops too but getting blood work no problem

[@djbloodrender6537]

the easiest way to get eye drops in your eye is to place the dropper on the inside corner (by the nose), squirt the dose you need, then tilt your head to the side to have it slide across your eye

[@johnvelas70]

don't like heights, won't go in the ocean (Navy vet), don't like getting photographed yep I admit it I'm about 1/2 odd

[@densestjoker9219]

I have some super weird irrational fears as well, but the weirdest one has to be open doors. It doesn’t matter if I know someone is in whatever room the open door goes to seeing an open door freaks me out. I have forced family member to close doors when I am much closer because of how freaked out I get. My guess is it’s tied to my Agoraphobia, but outside of that I have no idea where it came from or why. Another irrational fear I have is vehicle noises. It doesn’t matter if it’s a car, bus, train, airplane, etc. if I hear any vehicle drive by or fly overhead I get extremely twitchy and anxious. It doesn’t help that I live somewhat close to an airport, and I’m a fairly populated area.

[@Kelmire1]

Congratulations, you have autism!

[@person.4027]

Sounds like it would be a nightmare for you if you lived by an airport and right next to your city’s major highway.

[@thequestionis]

same here and I feel you

[@imgrggbsn]

I have an extremely bad fear of heights. I can’t do escalators, I can’t even stand on a chair without having a full on panic attack. Strangely enough I have slowly been able to get over this due to my love of theme parks and forcing myself to ride the big rolercoasters 😂

[@deleteriousss]

hey respect, glad you've found ways of easing your fear of heights. rollercoasters are good in that sense because once you can just push yourself to get over the anxiety of waiting in the queue and getting on it.. once you're on it.. you have to do it 😂

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

One time my mom was just looking out the window on like the 6th floor of the hospital. She got so scared of the height a doctor had to slowly guide her away from the window 😂 Well done for working on your fears. I don't have a fear of heights and I'm terrified of big rollercoasters, so you're doing better than me!

[@Fenet2000]

I can deliver a solition for the escalator problem my brother used to do once when he was really young: just press the red emergency button and walk up 😂

[@HDGamerofficial]

I got an irrational fear of paper, cuz I always feel like it’s gonna slice my exposed eyeball, there have been a couple times where some paper got too close to my eyes and I was just shooketh afterwards each time

[@Nangleator22]

I was in paper recycling machinery back in the 80s, trying to unclog the path. This happened many times, and the blowing paper would get everywhere. I'd find it afterwards inside my clothes. Inside my underwear. Inside my tight socks! So I wasn't too surprised when a guy helping me out once got a paper cut on his eyeball. He went to the ER and got ointment and continued working that same shift.

[@IrisGacha]

ok, that can actually happen, i got a papercut in my eye and had to wear a contact

[@RedK5]

New fear unlocked

[@TiggZ_]

Used to be the same with eyedrops until i realised i could just pool it up in the lower lid and blink 😳 🙃

[@alexandergassel9045]

Anita has a great smile

[@ArtemisLuna]

TBH a lot of people do eye drops the wrong way, most people assume you're supposed to look up and hold the bottle above your eye and have the drops drip down onto your eye, a much easier way to do it is to look forwards, pull the bottom part of your eyelid down so it creates a sort of pouch like gap between the lower eyelid and the bottom of your eyeball, place the tip of the eyedrop bottle to the edge of that pouch (similar to how you'd apply eyeliner) and squirt the drops into the pouch and then release the eyelid and blink a few times to spread the drops around your eye.

[@bluesbest1]

I can't stand bugs flying around. It doesn't matter how tiny, insignificant, and harmless it is, I'll flinch if it even turns in my direction. Also, from what I understand, the Aztecs also believed that the Earth was occasionally hungry and needed human snacks.

[@toxicglitter13]

"imagine dying so someone can blink on you" 🤣💀 omgggg

[@SneakyBoyProductions]

Saw the title first thing i noticed was 'Eyedrops" dude i can't even stand air getting in my eyes sometimes.

[@michaelgrumbach4896]

i find it easier to squirt the eye drops into the corner of my eye. Or to pull my lower eyelid downward, lean my head back, look towards my forehead and add the drops in the now exposed area between the bottom of my eyeball and my lowered eyelid.

[@camelopardalus]

Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a family of mammoths (mastodons?) who were drinking at the water's edge when the earthquake struck and liquefied the ground beneath them. They sank into the instant quicksand up to their bellies and when the earth amalgamated all of them were helplessly held fast as if by concrete: much to the astonishment and delight of the smilodons, dire wolves, short-face bears and other predators, who could come back again and again at their leisure to dine without even having to quicken their pace much less chase them down and dodge those tusks or being stomped on. Isn't that a heartwarming family story?

[@_harbinjer]

something i would expect her mum to say

[@vaehYT]

I’m scared of escalators, Seaweed, crossing the street, and surviving an attempt 😪I hate seaweed in water

[@antduude]

"EyeHub." I'm still laughing.

[@brasilianinglish]

I spoke to someone who manages buildings and she said that people should be way more scared of escalators than lifts

[@tharkun92]

I saw the same video of the escalator lady and baby. Scarred for life. I still think about it when I take an escalator and it was like 10 years ago 😆

[@foggy561]

I also hate eye drops, I've never successfully gotten them into my eyes on the first try

[@_1Sentry1_]

I used to have a phobia of water wells as a kid. It came from a kids story about this wolf who eats a family of sheep. The remaining sheep find him while he's deep food coma asleep they cut their relatives out of his belly fill him up with rocks and toss him down the well. That horrified me as a child and for the longest time just the thought of water wells would keep me up at night.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

There is a place in California (probably have them all over but I only know of the one) where they use forced air to "vibrate" a sand pit so it acts like liquid so you sink in and can move around. When they stop the air it almost instantly solidifies, trapping you in it.

[@just4guitar558]

“Amalga-Mate” You’re Welcome

[@SahasraraRigma]

Gurlll... I am exactly the same with things involving my eyes.

[@pikaleaf8914]

This is what I come here for, thats is such a cool fact. You know so many. I'd look into stuff like this if I had like, key words or something. Or if I could remember that I'm interested more often lol.

[@m00shminki88]

I saw that same video and I'm also terrified of escalators.... and elevators.... eyedrops.... spiders..... the ocean..... lots of things lol

[@MrDinoMunchies]

liquefaction is no joke. Where i live we had some BAD earthquakes and the damage from JUST the liquefaction, not the shake itself was crazy. There are now certain areas where houses/buildings can no longer be built because of the higher risk of significant liquefaction which happened previously during said earthquakes.

[@Fazquel]

Eye drops, escalators and Earthquakes sounds like a comedy movie title

[@kraftytrouble7862]

Here's a tip: tilt your head back, close your eye and do your drops in your closed eye by your tear duct. Then you just have to blink a couple of times to get it into your eye.

[@firestorm1088]

As a kid who grew up on a ranch I remember a time when I was really young I watched my parents try to save a cow that prolapsed and the next day I went into school telling everyone about a cow that exploded.

[@krasher100]

My guess is with all the extra space the dirt moves similarly to spilling sand on account of it being shaken lose due to the shifting of the earths tectonic plates.

[@aidanm6188]

i hate when the earth just turns into quicksand and eats me

[@_harbinjer]

it must not be so bad

[@jomanout5866]

I watched Tremors when I was a kid and I was afraid to walk on the ground away from concrete for a while because I thought one of those worms would swallow me hah Funny memories

[@allison8459]

A tip for using eye drops. Pull down on your bottom eye lid till it pulls away from your eye and makes a little pocket. Put the eye drop in the pocket. If that doesn’t work, close your eye with your head back and your face facing the ceiling. Put the eye drop in the inner corner, next to your nose where, and blink a few times to disperse it. Hope that helps 😉✌️

[@DefectivePieceofChalk]

The weird thing with phobias, at least to me, is that I know it's bullshit. I'm stupidly claustrophobic. I know there's nothing to fear. I can rationalize it away any time. Until I have to enter a small space and shit inevitably hits the fan again. I've tried getting over it. Many times. But I get nauseous and dizzy when the space I'm in is too small.

[@charleslambert3368]

On the one hand that sounds awful but on the other i always kind of wondered what would happen if you fell down an up escalator so thanks past Anita for answering that question. Personally I'm ok with escalators even the massive ones on the tube but those little spiral staircases in gothic cathedrals kind of get to me.

[@randomidk881]

She is so sweet x

[@DecanFrost]

here is another escalator horror story for you. a women once fell at the very op and her long hair got caught in the comb, it ripped her scalp and parts of her face, clean off.

[@dopecarmilla]

ahhh now I have a fear of escalators, lmao thanks Anita 👍🏼

[@Shaun72]

Haha 😆 Mums are the best 🥹

[@Conformist55]

I was afraid of escalators for the longest time as a kid. I don’t know when or why I stopped being afraid of them.

[@baksban74]

Vibration makes particles move, you weigh more than a particle, so you sink, vibration stops, particles can't freely move, you done. Easy to try out, find a solid box, dump tea in there, try to reach the bottom of the box with a spoon, now just rest the spoon on the tea and shake the box.

[@ericcampbell774]

I do the same thing with eye drops hahaha

[@dopecarmilla]

ahhh now I have a fear of escalators, thanks Anita 👍🏼

[@thisisasupersayin376]

The fact that you fell down an escalator and were fine makes them seem a lot safer tbh

[@toadabee5153]

I hate escalators! I feel so uneasy on them.

[@1lady_ray]

I’m scared of hiking because every time I get dragged into a hiking trip, they choose the most sus route ever and they just casually walk through it as if they’re not tightroping to their deaths and they’re not one slight misstep away from falling very far down the mountain lol.

[@maxmullusky8311]

Lol. I am in construction and work with no gloves. Will pick up concrete with wire and rip my hands, dig holes with no gloves, but God forbid I get an eyelash in my eye. I can't deal with touching or putting drops in my eyes.

[@dakudoragon2335]

Lol, I am the same with the eye drops

[@dimwarlock]

I can't enjoy a bath, even less a pool because I feel pressure in my chest, any body of water in which I can fit my entire body makes me anxious. I can get into the water, but I'm tense the whole time. But it's only touching the body of water what cause a problem, because looking at it, taking showers, being in a boat, submerging on a videogame... all of that is OK.

[@Imaculata]

I am afraid of those pressurized airpumps to inflate bicycle tires. I once had one of my tires explode right next to my ear, and was deaf for 30 mins. It was so terrifying that I refuse to use those things or stand near them when they are being used.

[@FacePlant1324]

I am like that with eye drops to when i was a child i had to use eye drops cause something was wrong woth my eye and they had to hold me down to take the eye drops cause even tho i knew i had to take them i couldn't do it i would fight to get the eye drops away from my eye

[@3BsART]

Love you! ❤️

[@MrBunnyBunn]

Yes escalators are so scary I went to mall of America and there were no stairs anywhere just escalators

[@peter4210]

I think that building leaning over was actually badly built in Asia and was reinforce to stop it fromcollapsing on the road. If it was during an earthquake that thing would be down already

[@mourning_spring]

Anita when the the three EEE's arive:

[@kiritoblack05]

You are amazing Anita ‼️❤️🥰😉🤣👍

[@StilltheAp0llyon]

No irrational fears, just parental trauma

[@sirnutcase8745]

We all need a snack, never heard something more true in my life ;P

[@AlterMann57]

My wife used to wear contact lenses years ago and it always weirded me out watching her simply put them in her eyes. I'm the same as you about eye drops, just can't do it. I'm also scared to death of heights, even when I see photos of the builders who constructed building back in the 1920's, they stood out on beams with no protective fall braces or anything, just standing there as if they were on a sidewalk.

[@howHumam]

I would say eye drops are near the top of the list of non-invasive medical things that people don't like. Whenever an optometrist puts in the dilation drops I always have a wave of panic despite understanding a bit of history about medicine and Digitalis.

[@oldtimersniper560]

Always check your shoes are tied before going on an escalator top tip

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

Eye Drops Escalators Earthquakes Elephants Eagles Entertainers in clown makeup Equines in armor Excalibur sword “replicas” Excruciating Pain Everything that begins with letter E

[@RaisinYogurt]

I once got my thumb stuck in an escalator

[@BankruptGreek]

tbh I think putting eyedrops using contacts is way easier, fill in the contact then touch the contact to your eye and the eye drop transfers over

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Anita: FWIW, other than my own fingers I have trouble with anything close to my eyes.

[@robinblackmoor8732]

My optometrist hates me. I have huge problems with eye drops. I think it is more normal than you think.

[@slayergt3104]

Put the dropper in the corner of your eye, on your skin where your eye boogers collect.

[@Caris42]

I hate doing eye drops, but someone told me a trick, if you put the drop right in the corner of your eye next to your nose, then blink rapidly (I usually have to tilt my head a bit to the side) and it just makes the drop roll into the eye and it works perfectly. I can't just put that eye drop right in the eye. I just cant.

[@JKTucker-hw1fu]

Close your eyes. Look up. Keep them closed and place a drop in each corner and then open your eyes and let the drops fall in. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@wilgarcia1]

Maybe the earth just gets hungry =D It's probably under ground water stuff =P

[@Jason_Bover9000]

She is gorgeous 😍

[@DJTurrettz]

pretty sure it's amalgamate

[@liveforbass]

Kick me in the nads, but leave my eyes alone. I'm the same way

[@MysteicVoltronus]

Moms are the root of all trama.

[@oorosh9483]

Как-то увидел видео с ней и смеялся где-то минут 10-15 от 50 минутного видео, а после стало не смешно, вспомнил своё детство, захотелось поговорить с ней добрым голосом и обнять, сделать все возможное чтобы ей не было больно

[@slipper1889]

Your mom would love to meet my mom, she is a nurse in intensive care. Her go-to way of teaching someone not to do something is bringing up a story from work where someone died doing something similar. Oh, you want to try diving from a 3 meter high, let me tell you a story about a 20 year old healthy guy who went into shock because of the sudden change of temperature after diving.