textures, repetitive pattern phobia

Kenan wrote:

trypophobia-fear of holes.
Nope that's not it for me and my sister.
Its close repeating patterns that we react to. The pattern on a head of cauliflower, certain tree bark, paisley pattern, fractals. i'll have to stop now as i'm starting to think about it.
We have had it all our lives, she's affected worse than me.
It was my sister who found this forum and she emailed me with the tag line "we're not alone" as for as long as we can remember we have kept it to ourselves as most people don't know what you are on about

Xaio wrote:

OMG fractal patterns! google fractals

Amy wrote:

I am so glad to find this, both my mum and I have this phobia of weird patterns and textures, it is good to find other people have too! I saw the most horrific (fake) picture of a woman who had holes in her breast, apparently from maggots, and i am literally traumatised! blurgh!

phobiaphile wrote:

I have been studying what is called trypophobia for almost two years now. when i say studying, i mean going to libraries and finding different and strange things people have feared since measuring fear was something we did. the psychological reactions to certain things, scenarios, and apparitions is as old as the onomatopoeic ways we describe them.
trypophobia is not a true documented irrational fear. on the contrary, it is quite rational. i hope this explanation i found will ease the rest of you, who like me, get a strange foreboding sense that your very molecular construction feels somewhat weak and vulnerable when coming in contact with what people are calling fear of organic clusters or patterns.
it isn't necessarily like our facebook friends may suggest as simply a fear of small holes, but their order in certain organisms or animals, as well as their depth, shape, texture, colour, and even what they're filled or not-filled with or surprisingly protruding with.
take the lamprey for instance. this is an organism that terrifies me as well as many, seeing as how if you google trypophobia, you get pictures of lampreys. they must terrify us for a reason. look at the images of them photo-shopped over other things to make them more horrid.
if creation is your story, then the next part will not interest you as i address the makeup of our primordial ooze forefathers. abiogenesis is still of course a theory for our species' origin. but if the microorganisms existing inside this life-starting goop are divided in the natural dualistic state, we're split between proteins and nucleic acids. proteins are fixed, static. they provide a communication between what lives and what makes-what-lives-live. nucleic acids are an irritant to mediate the efficiency of the proteins to alleviate overpopulation. life tends to be on a conquest.
the appearance of proteins seems to be that of a stout-hearted drone casting a line to gather nutrition for its host. the appearance of the individual antagonist, the nucleic acid, is the cause of all of our concerns.
picture a floating brain on a twig, creating a sort of vapor or smoke to agitate or haze the industrious protein. the blinding substance that causes the protein to slow its progress is secreted from the cerebral vents on the flank of the nucleic acid. this vent appears to resemble that of shark gills, or even sometimes the organic patterns represented by the mouth of lampreys, or even fresh water fish gills, or dried mud in the desert after the rain, or the underside of the lung part of a mushroom, or convolutions of brain matter, or the cross-section of seed pods, or the pit of nectarines and figs.
This is not a metaphor but a sign of our eventual demise. if our creation, or really, our evolution suggests anything it is to survive; opt for life. and at times, some of us are more in tune, or even a bit more clairvoyant than others in certain realms. that being said, could it be possible that this "trypophobia" is a warning sign, maybe even just a subtle reminder of our battle to live. those of you in this forum and all of our rationally fearful brothers and sisters can empathize: that feeling you get when you catch a glimpse of these patterns or clusters, is a very deep, very unnerving, often menacing presence in a blind world of irrational, lesser souls. we are turned on, my friends. don't be fearful, be cautious.

Danielle wrote:

I have this too! I was searching on the internet to see if anyone else has it. Fish scales, fish gills, cells, symmetrical patterns --- If there's a pattern on a piece of paper I cant stand I have to tear through it!!!

Glogirl101 wrote:

<quoted text>Through this whole blog everyone keeps talking about this breast I'm tempted to see it but then I fear my phobia will get worst! Then to add maggots WTF! Dried mud with DEEP cracks in it ugh! This phobia is like "working out" For example, first u warm up second, u do intense exercise to get ur heart racing. Third, you slow your heat rate down then finally it's over. What I mean is first talking about these horrific image makes my heart start
pumping. Then when I c the actually image omg
it's intense. Then when I quickly look away or
change the subject I calm down but a littl shoo-
in. After that I'm fine would u say I have the
phobia!?i guess I'm in denial though I keep saying I have a phobia. Let me know?