Submechanophobia: Fear of the Submerged

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  @RicciReach · 2 years ago

  its a weird feeling both having submechanophobia yet still having a fascination with shipwrecks and even the occasional thought of learning how to dive to face my fears to visit said wrecks

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• WE

  @Weepysponge · 2 years ago

  My biggest fear is I'm swimming in a big body of water and my foot brushes against something hard under me. I look down and it's a rusty airplane under the water. I'd simply freak tf out.

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• JA

  @Jajawa · 3 years ago

  I wonder how many billionaires have this now

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• NY

  @nyde7705 · 3 years ago

  I actually have this. Couldn’t put my finger on it growing up, but I vividly remember getting scared by submerged objects. I remember swimming out to a buoy in a lak and then getting really freaked out when I looked down and saw the chain going down into the abyss. Such a freaky feeling.

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• PR

  @PrematureEpiphanies · 3 years ago

  My biggest fear is diving somewhere in the Atlantic and opening my  eyes to see a gigantic propeller or the front of some giant shipwreck. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

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• KO

  @konighartzderiv.4898 · 2 years ago

  I dont think i have the whole phobia, idc about shipwrecks itself,  but the propeller gets me every time.

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• OM

  @OMG.youre.right. · 2 years ago

  Underwater animateonics is spooky, but also the thought of submerging my head underwater and hearing the motors and hydraulics working freaks me out too

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• BL

  @BlacckDom · 3 years ago

  I have Aquamechanophobia  specific to pool drains and lights, so I can totally understand how someone with Submechanophobia could be affected by things as such.

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• NI

  @NiftywoodpeckerAlt · 1 year ago

  I do have submechanophobia, but for me it's not just machinery. Even submerged logs and sticks are enough to get me booking it to shore. I also used to be terrified to pool vents, even just the black stripes on the bottom, and pool lights.

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• JS

  @jsguxikxlaohva · 2 years ago

  The weirdly specific stuff that freaks my out the most is the bottom of ships, giant ship propellers, and the sight of a chain/ rope coming from a bouy or anchor just going into the abyss

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• AN

  @Ant0nAL0g · 3 years ago

  I grew up going to a man-made lake that was once a small town. When the creek feeding the lake was damned under a FDR-era program, the entire town was submerged. As a kid, the idea of an entire town at the bottom of the lake I was swimming in left me with nightmares.<br><br>But, more specifically I find the sight of bridge pillars disappearing into dark water the most terrifying. Such a large man made object spanning the entire depth of a body of water is so chilling. Swimming next to one makes me feel claustrophobic. Really the sight of any man-made object descending to the the bottom of a body of water, like a dock cable or boat anchor, gives me chills. All I know is these man-made objects are not supposed to be there and I perceive it as a threat.

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• DA

  @dark-bu8fw · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Fe9AITYjo&amp;t=187">3:07</a> somehow the messed up audio made it so much cooler

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