For those of us with a "fear of heights" problem...
02-22-05, 09:31 PM
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For those of us with a "fear of heights" problem...
When in a very (physically) high situation, is it harder for you to look up or to look down?
For the longest time, I never even considered heights, but for like the past few years...I've become a Class A Height's Wimp!
Looking down one thing, and that's bad enough (I get the feeling as though I'm being pulled to the edge, or even being pushed from behind to fall), but for one reason or the other, I have an even WORSE problem looking up!
I get all Hicklety-Pickelty feeling inside, and end up even dizzer than I usually am!
(If that were possible...
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I mean, Go figure...
Just add THAT to my plethoriforic list of issues...
No, really! I mean it!
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For the longest time, I never even considered heights, but for like the past few years...I've become a Class A Height's Wimp!
Looking down one thing, and that's bad enough (I get the feeling as though I'm being pulled to the edge, or even being pushed from behind to fall), but for one reason or the other, I have an even WORSE problem looking up!
I get all Hicklety-Pickelty feeling inside, and end up even dizzer than I usually am!
(If that were possible...
)I mean, Go figure...
Just add THAT to my plethoriforic list of issues...
No, really! I mean it!
For those of you with nothing better to do than take notes on the ol' Edit King...
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some of you have actually created an "Edit King Folder" (as it were, if you will, or whatnot) where you keep all the hub-hub on me, my antics, and last but not least, my incredibly wounderous and most thrilling adventures...
& -Tek
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02-22-05, 10:32 PM
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Looking down from a great distance isn't a problem. Looking up at a very tall building gets me disoriented, even when I'm on ground level. I feel my legs buckle and see things sway to-and-fro.
02-23-05, 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by solipsta
02-23-05, 05:50 AM
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It's not the height itself. It's seeing the thing that goes from your feet all the way to the ground. I hate being on tall bulidings but I had no problem when I was teaching aerobatics.
02-23-05, 08:21 AM
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I climbed this fuckin' mountian and all I got was this stick and a frozen nutsack!
02-23-05, 08:47 AM
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I've been troubled by heights all my life. It is all my mothers fault too.
I never thought off looking up. Usually I turn my head and try to stare at my shoulder.
The thing I'm most embarrassed to admit about my heights phobia, is that when I'm watching a movie in a theater, if they start doing those sequences of shooting straight down while flying over a city, I automaticly grip by armrests and concentrate on sticking to my seat, as though I believe there is some chance I could fall into the movie screen.
I never thought off looking up. Usually I turn my head and try to stare at my shoulder.
The thing I'm most embarrassed to admit about my heights phobia, is that when I'm watching a movie in a theater, if they start doing those sequences of shooting straight down while flying over a city, I automaticly grip by armrests and concentrate on sticking to my seat, as though I believe there is some chance I could fall into the movie screen.
02-23-05, 09:06 AM
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I hate heights. I don't have a problem with looking up, but when I look down, I feel like I'm losing my balance and falling forward. Just thinking about heights makes my palms sweaty. I try to avoid heights as much as possible, but of all the high places I've been, walking across this was probably my least favorite:
Royal Gorge, Colorado. Height of about 1,200 feet I think, but it seems like miles.
Royal Gorge, Colorado. Height of about 1,200 feet I think, but it seems like miles.
02-23-05, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by DVD Polizei
Hoover Dam. Looking DOWN.
Then I went to the bar at the top of the Stratosphere. Not only is it way up there, you get the motion from the roller coaster. Even all the alcohol I'd ingested didn't make things any better.
I really need to choose my Las Vegas activities more carefully...
Strangely enough, as scared to death of heights as I am, flying doesn't bother me.
02-23-05, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
I hate heights. I don't have a problem with looking up, but when I look down, I feel like I'm losing my balance and falling forward. Just thinking about heights makes my palms sweaty.
02-23-05, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Spanky BananaPants
Strangely enough, as scared to death of heights as I am, flying doesn't bother me.
I've never pondered the looking up situation. Usually, I'm so nervous that just "being" somewhere high up that I don't want to look anywhere. But I guess looking down to where I feel I'll be falling to my doom is worse.
02-23-05, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by The Edit King
"Spanky BananaPants"???
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