Have a Fear of Heights? - Page 2

Ghoulish Delight · 07-24-2007, 08:43 AM

At medium heights (sky rides, balconies) I share my mom's inexplicable phobia that loose and semi-loose items on my person (wallets, keys, cameras, shoes) will somehow work themselves free and fall. Look closely and you'll find me cutting off circulation in my hand as I wrap my camera strap as tightly as possible without crushing bone.

As I go higher (cliffs, skyscrapers, Supreme Scream), I get rather paralyzed.

Capt Jack · 07-24-2007, 08:46 AM

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Let's go get Starbucks while Group II enjoys that feeling of imminent death.

ok, but I need to stop at the store first. I need a spatula and a sponge for group II

BarTopDancer · 07-24-2007, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

At medium heights (sky rides, balconies) I share my mom's inexplicable phobia that loose and semi-loose items on my person (wallets, keys, cameras, shoes) will somehow work themselves free and fall. Look closely and you'll find me cutting off circulation in my hand as I wrap my camera strap as tightly as possible without crushing bone.

I once had a lighter work its way out of my pocket and explode on the ground during a ride on Supreme Scream. Really not sure how that happened. Supreme Scream is about as high as I can go and I have the force myself to keep breathing. The sky thingie that turns scares the heck out of me. Yet I find myself OK in the skybuckets at the SD Zoo and the big giant ferris wheel at the OC Fair.

On coasters I am convinced that my rings (that barely come off as it is) will fly off and I will lose them. So I usually ride with a closed fist. I'm convinced earrings will come loose and somehow a necklace will fly off.

madmonkeygirl · 07-24-2007, 10:12 AM

Supreme Scream i won't ride anymore. I am was afraid of heights and the last ride i had on that was beyond normal. We were CM and i on the yellow tower one and we went up past the camera thingys and heard no "click" like it usually makes. So we went up higher than normal. At this point i was kinda freaking out i kept telling myself breathe breathe (I just that's almost too high for me really) then it took like forever before we actually dropped not the usual three -five second counting either. CM explained what happened after we were safely on the ground and i vowed never to ride it again.

Now ontop of Stratosphere that's a different story. Big Shot (same thing as Supreme Scream) whether it is day or nite (last i rode in March at nite) i hate that ride. It feels like you're just floating higher and higher and if you look down you see the top of the tower disappear. After our ride on XScream i nearly "kissed the ground" when we got off.

Now the other rides XScream (front seat night view) was scary for me but i would do it again in a heartbeat. My friend Brea who loves rides and isn't scared of heights was so scared she cried. Insanity the one that takes you out and spins you as you're sitting that one is our favorite of the three rides. Somehow that elevator ride doesn't bother me nor being out on top of the top of the tower. But yet we rode to the top of Paris in Vegas and out on that little catwalk at night with the wind blowing quite moving the tower a bit (little bit of swaying) was bad enough for me. Go figure.

I love ferris wheels and i love Maliboomer and those drop rides about that high in height not any higher though.

Ghoulish Delight · 07-24-2007, 10:16 AM

I took the elevator to the top of Stratosphere, with Big Shot ticket in hand. But once I was on the observation deck, there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to set foot outside. If I'm inside a skyscraper like that, I can can deal, thought I'm pretty uneasy the whole time. If it's a really important landmark (e.g. Eiffel Tower), I'll suck it up and brace an outdoor observation deck. But never in a million years would I strap myself into something like Big Shot. No way, no how.

BarTopDancer · 07-24-2007, 10:25 AM

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Now ontop of Stratosphere that's a different story. Big Shot (same thing as Supreme Scream) whether it is day or nite (last i rode in March at nite) i hate that ride. It feels like you're just floating higher and higher and if you look down you see the top of the tower disappear. After our ride on XScream i nearly "kissed the ground" when we got off.

Oh hell no. No way in hell, no amount of money in the world could get me on any of the things on top of the Stratosphere. Especially after I saw a the two rides that go out over the edge break down. HELL NO.

I like my feel planted on the ground TYVM.

Kevy Baby · 07-24-2007, 10:26 AM

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Oh, it's not imminent death when you're securely in place up high. It's just imminent death when the cables break.

It's not the cable breaking or the fall that kills you - it's that sudden stop at the bottom that gets ya.

I'm not afraid of heights; I'm afraid of the ground.

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Yet I find myself OK in the skybuckets at the SD Zoo and the big giant ferris wheel at the OC Fair.

I can handle the high stuff, but I am surprisingly uneasy on the overhead sky chairs at the LA County Fair (or whatever they are called - the thing you sit on to ride from one side of the Fair to the other).

But count me in on line 2. I would probably be frightened, but I would do it anyways.

DreadPirateRoberts · 07-24-2007, 10:27 AM

Yep, I'm afraid of heights. I hate being in tall buildings, but I find it interesting that I have no fear if I am at the equivalent height in an airplane, I'm only scared if I'm on something that is attached to the ground.

JWBear · 07-24-2007, 10:28 AM

I have no problem with heights as long as there is a barrier (even if it’s just a railing) or some kind of restraint to keep me from going over the edge. I once freaked out a friend by pressing myself against a floor length window in a 20th floor hotel room.

An open I-beam?? No way in hell.

I also will not walk on a glass floor. I don’t care if it’s only a foot off the ground and 6 inches thick, I will not walk on it.

Alex · 07-24-2007, 10:30 AM

Lani won't do drop rides (she's fine with heights generally, just not with dropping) because they scare her.

I won't do them because they bore me.

When I was about 10 I fell out of a tree from about 50 feet up (I was well above the roof our our two-story, atticed house). Somehow bouncing off branches, uncontrolled, on the way down I suffered no injury but some scratches. I think that feeling of invulnerability (others might have focused on the failure of falling but I focused on the cool success of survival) completely destroyed any potential heights phobia that might otherwise have developed.

07-24-2007, 08:43 AM	#11
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	At medium heights (sky rides, balconies) I share my mom's inexplicable phobia that loose and semi-loose items on my person (wallets, keys, cameras, shoes) will somehow work themselves free and fall. Look closely and you'll find me cutting off circulation in my hand as I wrap my camera strap as tightly as possible without crushing bone. As I go higher (cliffs, skyscrapers, Supreme Scream), I get rather paralyzed. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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07-24-2007, 10:12 AM	#14
madmonkeygirl Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 764	Have a Fear of Heights? Supreme Scream i won't ride anymore. I am was afraid of heights and the last ride i had on that was beyond normal. We were CM and i on the yellow tower one and we went up past the camera thingys and heard no "click" like it usually makes. So we went up higher than normal. At this point i was kinda freaking out i kept telling myself breathe breathe (I just that's almost too high for me really) then it took like forever before we actually dropped not the usual three -five second counting either. CM explained what happened after we were safely on the ground and i vowed never to ride it again. Now ontop of Stratosphere that's a different story. Big Shot (same thing as Supreme Scream) whether it is day or nite (last i rode in March at nite) i hate that ride. It feels like you're just floating higher and higher and if you look down you see the top of the tower disappear. After our ride on XScream i nearly "kissed the ground" when we got off. Now the other rides XScream (front seat night view) was scary for me but i would do it again in a heartbeat. My friend Brea who loves rides and isn't scared of heights was so scared she cried. Insanity the one that takes you out and spins you as you're sitting that one is our favorite of the three rides. Somehow that elevator ride doesn't bother me nor being out on top of the top of the tower. But yet we rode to the top of Paris in Vegas and out on that little catwalk at night with the wind blowing quite moving the tower a bit (little bit of swaying) was bad enough for me. Go figure. I love ferris wheels and i love Maliboomer and those drop rides about that high in height not any higher though.
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07-24-2007, 10:16 AM	#15
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I took the elevator to the top of Stratosphere, with Big Shot ticket in hand. But once I was on the observation deck, there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to set foot outside. If I'm inside a skyscraper like that, I can can deal, thought I'm pretty uneasy the whole time. If it's a really important landmark (e.g. Eiffel Tower), I'll suck it up and brace an outdoor observation deck. But never in a million years would I strap myself into something like Big Shot. No way, no how. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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07-24-2007, 10:27 AM	#18
DreadPirateRoberts Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,483	Yep, I'm afraid of heights. I hate being in tall buildings, but I find it interesting that I have no fear if I am at the equivalent height in an airplane, I'm only scared if I'm on something that is attached to the ground.
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07-24-2007, 10:28 AM	#19
JWBear Worn Romantic Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach California Posts: 8,435	I have no problem with heights as long as there is a barrier (even if it’s just a railing) or some kind of restraint to keep me from going over the edge. I once freaked out a friend by pressing myself against a floor length window in a 20th floor hotel room. An open I-beam?? No way in hell. I also will not walk on a glass floor. I don’t care if it’s only a foot off the ground and 6 inches thick, I will not walk on it. __________________ Unrestrained frivolity will lead to the downfall of modern society.
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07-24-2007, 10:30 AM	#20
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Lani won't do drop rides (she's fine with heights generally, just not with dropping) because they scare her. I won't do them because they bore me. When I was about 10 I fell out of a tree from about 50 feet up (I was well above the roof our our two-story, atticed house). Somehow bouncing off branches, uncontrolled, on the way down I suffered no injury but some scratches. I think that feeling of invulnerability (others might have focused on the failure of falling but I focused on the cool success of survival) completely destroyed any potential heights phobia that might otherwise have developed.
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