Well, this could be an amusing thread for some, but not pleasant for a very small minority - I imagine you could feel quite queasy, so you have been warned
For as long as I remember I have found an assortment of things in nature oddly creepy or slightly nauseating. The most notable example would be the innards of a pumpkin or butternut squash - just the way that very small things are arranged in a delicate way, or how seeds of certain tropical plants appear. I also remember that an advertisement featuring many heads or faces joined into one big face was banned or pulled since a few people found it unsettling a year or so ago (there was an OCUK thread on it). Hell, I don't even particularly like that recent duracell bunny advert where many bunnies form one big elephant!
It now seems that I am not alone in my distaste - there is something (unofficially?) called trypophobia, which is the fear of clusters of holes or small things embedded together. I'm not affected by this in the same way as my phobia of spiders (I am terrified of those ), but it does make me feel peculiar / weird.
Now, there are a whole manner of weird and freaky images that can be googled and will probably be posted shortly, but I thought I'd have the decency not to freak people out without a brief explanation of what to expect (and since some people can apparently be affected by this quite badly, I'd appreciate if the Don's could be so kind to remove anything they consider particularly unsuitable in this thread).
I imagine this might be more common than I first thought - has anybody else heard of this or feels similar?
For as long as I remember I have found an assortment of things in nature oddly creepy or slightly nauseating. The most notable example would be the innards of a pumpkin or butternut squash - just the way that very small things are arranged in a delicate way, or how seeds of certain tropical plants appear. I also remember that an advertisement featuring many heads or faces joined into one big face was banned or pulled since a few people found it unsettling a year or so ago (there was an OCUK thread on it). Hell, I don't even particularly like that recent duracell bunny advert where many bunnies form one big elephant!
It now seems that I am not alone in my distaste - there is something (unofficially?) called trypophobia, which is the fear of clusters of holes or small things embedded together. I'm not affected by this in the same way as my phobia of spiders (I am terrified of those ), but it does make me feel peculiar / weird.
Now, there are a whole manner of weird and freaky images that can be googled and will probably be posted shortly, but I thought I'd have the decency not to freak people out without a brief explanation of what to expect (and since some people can apparently be affected by this quite badly, I'd appreciate if the Don's could be so kind to remove anything they consider particularly unsuitable in this thread).
I imagine this might be more common than I first thought - has anybody else heard of this or feels similar?