Have a Fear of Heights?

[BarTopDancer]

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.