I wonder how many billionaires have this now

@ackvevo

10 ай бұрын

None They have no soul so they have no phobias

@Jajawa

10 ай бұрын

@@ackvevo Lizards experience fear so I don't see why they can't

@JEMA333

10 ай бұрын

AYoooo

@FootyFlicksEdits

10 ай бұрын

I wonder how many Americans are scared of towers and planes 🤔

@kennyalwaysdies1

10 ай бұрын

​@@Jajawalizards are actual living beings though

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.

@claytastrophe7255

10 ай бұрын

Same, I was always uneasy with pool-cleaning robots, especially when they were moving,and never wanted to get too close. I get uneasy with buoys and seeing a plane underwater gives me the creeps

@MassHysteriaHD

10 ай бұрын

I remember kayaking on our pond as a kid and going around the shallow edges and going over submerged trees. Always freaked me out.

@Poodleinacan

10 ай бұрын

Maybe that was more a fear of the depth. The fear of what abyss below. Submechanophobia seems to be more about man-made things that are below water. Not considering the abyss or disgusting algae-covered surfaces, it is still a phobia and is basically irrational.

@informalnarwhals

10 ай бұрын

@@Poodleinacan fears of tangible objects and proven concepts arent irrational. irrational is like worrying bigfoot is dating your mum. also my mum says she fears seaweed. i never got what she meant til i was at a lake and looking over the dock i saw the tips of long seaweed emerging from an imperceptible void. i got a long stick, for science, and watched that sink into the void. water is spooky in so many ways 😨

@MarvinHartmann452

10 ай бұрын

​@Poodleinacan No, it's different, he specifically said that the chain going down in the abyss was scary. I have this, and I'm not afraid of deepness, besides the very rational fear of being caught underwater, but the object don't need to be submerged deeply in the water to be scary. I think it's irrational too. There's no good reason to be afraid of inanimate object.

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.

@user-zl8tu9zs7t

6 ай бұрын

Same whenever I shower I have bad thoughts like I leave and boom I’m underwater though it won’t happen

@wowzabois

2 ай бұрын

@@user-zl8tu9zs7tsame, wtf

@lauren1779

25 күн бұрын

Reading that made me want to throw up

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.

@288gto7

10 ай бұрын

Damn i had the exact same thing while growing up. Drains felt like they were gonna suck me in 😅

@lunawolfheart336

9 ай бұрын

Honestly after I heard a particular story I don't trust the drains. I don't remember if it was a drain or something else but it sucked this girl underneath a hot tub and she drowned because it was too powerful. So now I'll stay away from the drains and jets.

@AlmostCosmic288

8 ай бұрын

Interesting, so I wasn’t the only one scared of those things lol.

@762dreams

3 ай бұрын

I always hated those but the worst was the automatic vacuums that crawl around the surface

@nono-eg3jx

3 ай бұрын

​@@762dreamsyesssssss

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. 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.

@no_peace

10 ай бұрын

In Oregon? 😅 We have some of those here and they make me feel sick If anyone wants to see pics of one of the dried lake beds they can look up "Oregon ghost town rises from drought-drained Detroit Lake." There are a bunch but that's the best known Also totally agree, i commented and said flooded towns too lol. It's not right

@Ant0nAL0g

10 ай бұрын

@@no_peace The lake I used to visit is in Northern Arkansas, Lake Norfork. It’s sad to know so many towns were destroyed this way across the country. All I can think about are all the homes and memories lost :/ I know I would be devastated to have it happen to me.

@lpnp9477

10 ай бұрын

That sounds AWESOME. Not the loss, but the end product of a submerged town.

@diip-ali1228

9 ай бұрын

​@@lpnp9477you'd love bioshock probably

@toamatoro570

9 ай бұрын

Dude you were in Wet Dry World.

My particular submechanophobia sub-group is being utterly creeped out by shipwrecks or underwater vehicles, but only when seen from the surface. And weirdly enough, the knowledge that, for example, a buoy has a chain reaching all the way down to an invisible bottom below it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe I should hop on the subreddit and see if there's a word for my version out there too.

@no_peace

10 ай бұрын

WHAT IS IT ATTACHED TO

@tabbitee

10 ай бұрын

EXACTLY

@Draknfyre

7 ай бұрын

Same on the chain.

@liettemaccoul162

7 ай бұрын

omg I was just realizing this as I watched the video. The guy sitting in the engine of the plane didn’t bother me so badly, just kind of unsettling, but the plane with all the bouys above it made me physically recoil and screech lol.

@therealspeedwagon1451

6 ай бұрын

Or very specific military vessels at the bottom of the ocean. I get very creeped out by images of ships like the Bismarck, Kursk, Yamato, Yorktown, etc. all sunken at the bottom of the ocean. I think it’s because you know that these are all war graves; places where hundreds, if not thousands, of sailors have lost their lives. But it’s not just that, it’s also seeing them in a state of such rustic decay and disrepair. Also because shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and down: they’re always one one side or split in half or completely upside down. That’s another thing that creeps me out to no end.

One of the things that might scare people is the fact that they know you can't properly move underwater and there is not that much light and the damaged man made things combined make the human mind sometimes make you thing you are actually there and for some people they fear this

@mrbiglarge8820

10 ай бұрын

I know genuine danger when it comes to exploring ship wrecks. If you've ever seen the Staten Island boat graveyard you'll know what I'm talking about. There's just about a million things to get tangled up and then dragged down under.

@gturtlem8074

10 ай бұрын

@@mrbiglarge8820 ye I get u since while diving your leg can get stuck on some wreck in wich case you have a time limit to get it out

Your videos are amazing... Even without being too complex, the way that your voice and the images is completely insane. I can feel goosebumps with your other videos. Keep on doing these videos.

@nebula1383

10 ай бұрын

Agreed

Submechanophobia definitely has evolutionary factors involved. We are wired to be afraid of submerged objects as it is a natural human instinct to fear unfamiliar objects underwater.

@moldysshoe8639

10 ай бұрын

My source is that I made it the fuck up!

Your mention of liminal spaces is extremely insightful! I’m very impressed that you put that together without having Submechanophobia yourself. I definitely have Submechanophobia and I’m fascinated with abandoned places and out of place structures and objects because they conjure up feelings much like Submechanophobia does, but without the overwhelming fear, since it’s on dry land and therefore I have much more control and full access to my senses.

I live close to a large body of water that was a town they intentionally flooded a hundred years ago or so. When the water level lowers In droughts you can see a church steeple beneath the water. I can’t hardly handle driving by it or watching other people cliff dive into ig let alone get in the water myself. I basically clung to the cliff faces in 5 feet of water the last time I was invited to go with friends, lol. Thankfully I wasn’t alone, a couple other people with me were freaked out by that place too! Idk if they moved the cemetery/relocated the coffins before they flooded it or not, but that creeps me out even more than thinking of the people who’ve drowned or have drove off the roads into the water w/o being found. For some reason lakes scare me more than the ocean. No idea why.

I think for me it can be described most with: say you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat. Something gets twisted around the propellor and you are asked to jump in the water and swim under the boat to cut it loose.

I remember being absolutely repulsed by toilet tanks and buoys from a very young age. When I was about 9, my mom took my two younger siblings and I to a water treatment facility and I was TERRIFIED of the dark, deep, dirty water with rusty stairs and gears partially submerged. I could never understand why, especially as a kid who always loved the water. More recently, while snorkeling in Bali, I was completely fine (if anything, relaxed) looking down into where the shallow beach met the deep trench, but almost lost it upon seeing the rope of a boat anchor just a few meters from me. CRAZY that so many others feel this way too! I will say I have more of a specific aversion rather than a phobia per-se.

@Loctorak

4 ай бұрын

Well I mean I think I'd be a bit more scared of tanks of water if they happened to be like 70% poop. Like... falling into a treatment plant tank would be an absolute horror. Potentially fatal.

The images of submerged objects are scary to me because they look uncanny (like said in the video) Like at first glance they look like they might be in air, but then you realize it’s in water. It’s like you could imagine yourself in the picture, but once you recognize it’s in water you realize you would die if you were in that image lol. It feels forbidden because you can’t survive being there. I think man made objects in space would be scary if there were abandoned spaceships just floating around out there. I think that will definitely be a phobia in the future when more people go to space and if any space stations or ships become abandoned.

I don’t know if I have this phobia or not. On one hand, I love creepy/scary things. And shipwrecks don’t bother me. Maybe because ships are meant to be on the water, being in it is the next logical step? On the other hand, submerged animatronics deeply disturb me. Like the photos of 2000 leagues under the sea when the ride was drained? Nightmare fuel

@non0n704

10 ай бұрын

I feel the same way about shipwrecks. they were designed to be on water, so it isn't as scary. submerged airplanes on the other hand? hell no. that shit is supposed to be in the sky

@cadencase5216

4 ай бұрын

I fall into the same category of submechanophobia as you, mainly because of that DAMN sea serpent!😖 I've had nightmares of giant underwater sea monsters!😭

@kingofallhallowseve

4 ай бұрын

@@cadencase5216 I hope Nessie stops haunting you! I’m sure they’ve either been completely destroyed, or restored and look all pretty again

I am deathly afraid of vents inside swimming pools. Especially the ones that make waves in surf-n-swim. Even black tiles in pools freak me out. I’ve had nightmares being stuck in some kind of underground tunnel filled with murky water. There was giant black vents under my feet with pool lights illuminating the holes beneath the vents. Terrifying.

Your videos give me the same vibes as EmpLemon's video docs, and frankly I love it and I hope you keep it up.

You are so underappreciated man! Please keep making such amazing stuff!!

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

i think one of the best things is not just manmade objects underwater, but massive ones, especially with people in frame, like that one with the guy sitting in a plane's engine, i think it combines submechanophobia and megalophobia into one, just seeing something large and unmoving stretch off into the abyss is really unsettling, especially something where it just looks like a wall that stretches off into forever, cause you have no clue how big it actually is, it could be the size of a city or the size of a large house, you can never know cause of your limited vision

I know I have this because two scenes from movies that stuck with me throughout childhood and scared me deeply were 1. The sinking plane in incredibles 2. The sinking CAT in happy feet Absolute chills and I've never forgotten them

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.

@IncredibleCactusRoll

2 ай бұрын

Very creepy thought.

I was lucky enough to be brought to a small local amusement park every summer. I first noticed my Submechaniphobia when we'd be riding the log flume rides and I'd see the machinery under the water. It always made my skin crawl but thankfully not enough to make me avoidant. Later, i end up living in Hawaii and book a tour with Shark biologists to swim with a group of Galapagos sharks while they're schooling together (i.e. not hunting) in open deep pelagic waters a handful of miles off the coast of Oahu. The biggest of these sharks was a 12ft female who decided to rudely body check me (which is normal and just means, back off, im the baddest bitch here) and i was completely unphased and very happy to be with the sharks. But i was extremely nervous because we were in the water holding onto sturdy lines, attached to the hull of the boat. So you are essentially grasping the hull the entire time to avoid drifting and preventing being snuck up on from behind. It was bothering me more than being body checked by a 12 ft shark.

I’m the most scared of the animatronics in the water. Like they were left there to rot

@cadencase5216

4 ай бұрын

I resonate with your specific fear of submerged animatronics.😣 I am scared shitless of underwater animatronics!🏃‍♂️💨

I had a dream once when u was 6ish, i was in the water as a large tanker ship moved by within arms reach . From that point forword i have been very uncomfortable in any water with anything man made in it . However a pool is completly fine .

@turboprint3d

10 ай бұрын

Reactors don't hit that button tho , or flooded areas . The pools rooms look like paradise in some ways

Man you are seriously so incredibly underrated. I'm subbed.

I think you explained it perfectly. I Never understood why the images of the Titanic, Giant ship propellers and massive anchors and cement columns going down into the depths made me uneasy. The comparison you made to liminal spaces I think is spot on. There's an eeriness to seeing manmade things in the abyss.

When i was a kid our public aquatic center had this separation structure between the deep end and the lap pool. As kids we had rumors about kids trying to swim down under the barrier which had a small space at the bottom of it that if u really wanted to u could swim under it and to the other side. I remember being so afraid of it, attempting to try it. Knowing i could if i just push myself but if anything did go wrong it really could have not worked out. I ended up overcoming my fear and it felt good but the rumor and respect lived on about the things that could have gone wrong over the course of time. So i can relate to this feeling, the best thing is to be smart and respect these things because we are definitely not meant to handle much in the water so always be smart and respect the water.

I have a fear and a fascination of shipwrecks. On one hand not all submerged man made objects give me such a strong feeling of dread and fear, but others very much do. I feel fear towards very specific shipwrecks. To give some examples: Titanic, Lusitania, Britannica, Andrea Dorea, Yamato, Yorktown, Bismarck, Kursk, Taiho, and many, many others. I think there are multiple reasons as to why I’m so terrified of these ships in particular: one being that they are all graves in which hundreds, if not thousands of people lost their lives. Another being the rustic sorry state of decay all of these ships are in after being underwater for upwards of 100 years. And finally the last being how they got there. Shipwrecks almost never go down straight up and in one piece; they’re always on their side, or split in half, or completely upside down. I think it’s all those factors that lead me to think that these shipwrecks are so terrifying.

@user-zl8tu9zs7t

6 ай бұрын

Same

I'm obsessed with the fact that I have submechanophobia. Sometimes when I'm in the shower, I close my eyes and visualize with my mind's eye the hull of a ship underwater or a submarine passing right over me while I'm underwater. Terrifying! I'm obsessed, I can't help it. I'm also terrified of being in a pool's deep end alone (I'm fine if there's other people). An earlier commentator (@cadillacdevile) mentioned ''Aquamechanophobia'', I don't know if that's a thing or it's all related to submechaphobia but I have that too... the fear of pool drains and lights along the wall. I dread olympic sized pools and deep underwater apnea pools. I have many other fears related to water, I think it stems from a childhood traumatic event in a pool where I almost drowned if it wasn't for my dad that saved me. Anyways, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this phobia... Is there a facebook group for this?

I think one reason why people have submechanophobia and not a fear of man made structures in space is that we meant to put the space stations and satellites up there but we didn’t plan to put boats and such underwater

@Loctorak

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. They only ever end up there because something went very wrong, and in some cases people would have lost their lives in the vicinity. It's an accidental totem of our flimsy mortality, left to sit in the cold, eerie silence until long after us and everyone we know have long since passed.

Omg I was hoping you'd cover this, thank you!

Good video, about 5 years back my family and I went snorkeling off the coast of Cartagena and I got really spooked when we observed one of Escobars submerged planes.

I have a version of this fear, which is to be trapped in or under a submerged object. Had it since I was a very young - your use of Silent Hill music to start the video is apt, as when I played a scene drowning in submerged car in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories had be drenched head to toe in nervous sweat.

And now I have a name for the fear I've been trying to describe for so long. Thanks!

another amazing vid. amazing job with this one

I feel like I have a fear of just the ocean in general and everything in it

@Loctorak

4 ай бұрын

Yep. Keep me as far away from that mess as possible, thanks.

I don't have submechanophobia, but I totally get it and can see why manmade objects or machinery underwater would be scary. I do find them unsettling.

Horizon forbidden west does underwater really well like at one point in Horizon you explore the ruins of Las Vegas under a dome but it’s flooded and there are machines robots swimming around I would think that this might combine many phobias for some people

i love how you cover all the topics i like

insane video… i too have this IMMENSE fear and i couldn’t even LOOK at some of the pictures you presented lol. I remember back then it was such a distinct fear of mine i didn’t even know the term of it. But as i was watching this video you gave the perfect outlook on it, brava!🙌🏻🔥 What a bizarre fear right?

Another amazing video, Very underrated channel 🔥

Amazing video, underrated

The content you create touches on topics that I'm interested in and you do so in such a manner that's good quality! I thought you had waaay more subscribers than this. I'll be another one to your count o7

Criminally underrated channel

I don't have any phobias except thalassophobia,I was standing on top of the highest dam in my country and the meltwater was so crystal clear that i could see giant fishes swimming deep...scared the shits out my arse.

I love your videos dude :) Keep being you!

your videos have helped take my mind off things, thank you for that

I think the source of the fear is that it was once an object that was built for humans to exist around and live in. Now that object is completely engulfed in a hostile environment. You picture yourself using that machine that is currently too dangerous and mutilated to be used. Just a thought. Edit: As I got further into the video you explained my exact thoughts 😂 Also, everyone that likes the vibe in these pictures should check out a game called SOMA. It’s underwater like this and it’s a horror game of sorts.

@Loctorak

4 ай бұрын

I think it's a simpler reaction, even. I think it's simply coming across something we know we made in a clearly ruined and abandoned state. With the shipwreck we know already the ship ended there due to tragedy. I think it's just a very stark proof that death happened near there. Death caused by the very thing you'd be submersed in while seeing the wreck.

Hello just discorverded you'r channel and I love it, Continue like that !!

For some reason, I enjoy watching this dudes videos

Great video! Ate this while eating pesto pasta which greatly enhances the viewing experience 10/10 I recommend

@BlenderRenderChickenTender

10 ай бұрын

I’m about to actually eat pesto while eating this too!

@ponod

10 ай бұрын

@@BlenderRenderChickenTender LOL

@roogster

10 ай бұрын

pesto + chicken + pasta = godlike experience

@BlenderRenderChickenTender

10 ай бұрын

@@roogster +crededex

@BlenderRenderChickenTender

10 ай бұрын

How was the pesto?

5:30 For me at least, a major part of why machines underwater are scary and machines in space *aren't* is because of how the water & depth shrouds the former. Images of, say, the space shuttle show you the whole vehicle clearly visible; likewise for the ISS. Heck, that's even the same for other planets & moons. By contrast, pictures of even something as relatively small as a sunken boat (consider some of the small fishing boats or harbor vessels seen in this video), even when sunk in the shallowest, clearest waters, still have some occlusion thanks to the water. So the voice in the back of my mind keeps going "Okay, you see *one* spooky sunken ship. How many *more* are there, just outside of visible range from the camera?" Similar effect for the large sunken machines which are down deep enough (or in water murky enough) that you just can't see even a large portion of the machine all at once. Think of the famous image of Titanic's upper bow, where the railings and hull just disappear off into the darkness.

I have this so strong haha. One of my uncles works as an underwater welder….scariest job ever to me 😂

i’ve had this fear for as long as i have been alive. One of my earliest memories is a dream i had where i fall off a boat and slowly sink as the boat floats further away from me. I also can’t play any sort of game with underwater missions or anything like that. When the cayo perico heist came out for gta i fr was mad i couldn’t do it because of the whole submarine aspect of it. So much so that i have never taken my kosatka underwater and everytume it spawns in out of nowhere when requesting it it actually jumpscares me. Also there was this one time where i jumped my motorcycle in paletó and fell into the ocean right next to that crashed plane and had to legit turn off the game.

I love this video and all of the other ones your videos just make me feel different kinda comfortable but also curious you should make a video about like music like six forty seven or like the “backrooms music” cause me and other people feel different when they hear that.

This phobia is just four words for me: Jurassic Park Water Animatronics

Great video, you just showed the essence of those complex fear-related feelings, and I love that you have amplified that feeling with music. I'm especially fixated on the 2:22 moment in the video. Could you share what music you used at that moment?

@ladylaurel5941

10 ай бұрын

Six Forty Seven - Instupendo !

I love that you gave the silent hill shout out on point bruh

So glad I found this channel! Really great content. Actually, I love all the Solar Sands-like channels, like Solar Sands, Cresendex (you), Jacob Geller and Bourkey (the 40 year old Scottish Solar Sands). Did I miss anybody? If you know of similar channels, let me know what they are. I have a lot of free time while I procrastinate.

This guy is underrated.

i love your vids

The New World Mall in Bangkok actually has a very interesting story behind it. The reason the roof was removed was because of the owner disregard of zoning laws. They somehow be able to build and almost finished the building but the government filed a lawsuit which leads to the removal of the mall's roof and subsequent abandonment of the mall itself. Without the roof to prevent rain water, the mall become flooded. Then comes the mosquitos. And people who lives around there solves this problem by putting fish there. Which leads to the spectacle you can see in those pictures. They even become some sort of travel attraction at some point. But now, they have cleared the fish out and already drain water out in a plans to renovate into a new community mall.

YOU. How dare you disappear from my FYP for so long! I remembered to check your channel and now I have new videos to watch lol. Anyways. I really need to turn on notifications :P

ive had this fear my whole life now i have a vid to show people so they can understand

Friday night + new Cresendex video = Happiness

I've had this for as long as I can remember. The only thing I can tie to it's origin is almost drowning after getting stuck under a wheelchair ramp into a pool. When I surfaced finally after nearing blackout, no one had noticed (lifeguards and other people) that I was under there. Comforting to know there's more people out there that also freak out over metal things underwater lol.

when i was a kid, i used to swim in a lake where an abandonned boat was decaying since years ago, i got baited by some pals to get close to it. when i got close, i couldn't really see anything w the murky water, then the dirty propeler were right into my face. since then, everytime i go to the beach i just walk by the shore

love your voice and how you narrated this video as well as the topic itself, i have thalassophobia so it a weird relationship xd

Hello ive been subbed since 1.5k subs u make nice videos

I believe the first time that I got really scared by something manmade underwater was when me and my mom where swimming under a big brige, and decided to dive to the river bottom to find something left after the construction, just for fun. And there we were picking stuff of the bottom and then, when I was doing one of the dives I picked up some kind of wire and started pulling it up... but I felt that it was a long one, wasn't just a short piece of wire. I don't know how to describe that feeling, but I freaked out, thew it away, and quickly went to the surface. I never searched for anything on the bottom since.

I was always freaked out by the buoys while swimming in the sea as a kid. I'd stay way clear of small anchored boats too, that was too much. It's funny because even as a kid I knew this was irrational, but yeah to this day it still freaks me out and I'm just finding out it's a thing shared by a lot of people lol

The squid at Disneyland Paris was taken down and replaced with a screen that shows dolphins and a few sea things instead now. Major downgrade. Pretty sure it was gone even before this video was uploaded. Makes me wonder if people complained enough to get it removed or such.

6:20 “Gives off the feeling you might be next..” this quote is so potent. The reality is that we aren’t far off as of now for this to become a reality. Climate Change and the melting of glacial ice could sink hundreds of cities and that will live on in the memories of millions of people. Submechanophobia might be niche now, but people will have a very real view of it if the glaciers melt completely.

my biggest fear, ever since i was a child were and are mooring blocks, also bouys and chains, but specifically mooring blocks.... i dont know why.. but if i see one in the shallow waters it absolutely terrifies me and i could never swim there ... its so weird and silly...

@Loctorak

4 ай бұрын

Gotta watch out for them mooring blocks. They'll getcha

I grew up near a beach and my family had jet-skis. My dad loved to do doughnuts around the buoys with bells to make them ring. All my grade school mind could think about was the jet-ski flipping and pinning us between the upturned vessels and the bobbing barnacle encrusted mass that would quickly tear apart any flesh offered to them.

I have this to a degree. My #1 irrational fear is pool vents/drains/filters & lights. Terrified of most pools & water parks as a result, but I can manage. I can get into pools, swim & such, but I panic if I step on a filter or a light and have had panic attacks while swimming before. Deep, dark caverns and pools that disappear into a dark abyss freak me the heck out. Shipwrecks are fine for me to look at, but I’m really anxious when it comes to pools, water parks, lazy rivers, etc. The concrete, man made structures. There’s a picture I’ve seen of an abandoned factory with submerged stairs, that makes me very anxious. But, most of my fear is more ~recreational~ I guess? I refuse to go on waterslides, especially if they have a funnel. Poolrooms make me nauseous. Maybe my particular fears are an offshoot of claustrophobia or a fear of being trapped & unable to escape, combined with some aspects of both submechanaphobia and thalassophobia.

@leximarie123

10 күн бұрын

What stumps me, though, is that I developed this fear in high school. I grew up swimming, taking lessons & almost getting my lifeguard cert, so I’m not sure how or why I developed submechanophobia, aquamechanaphobia, thalassophobia.

As someone with thalassophobia I actually find submerged structures to be comforting, I feel safer around stuff like that, despite realistically making no difference. Probably a part more to do with that fear of the unknown aspect to thalassophobia than anything else. Though I do definitely hate those pictures of the pool rooms with the bottomless looking pits of water. Something like that implies intent, and for something like that I dont like to think about the intent of those holes or what may live in them. Ive been swimming in a cenote before, hated it.

The weird thing is that those stuffs felt like a challenge for me, inviting for an exploration and to understand what happened there

I have this phobia and I only just found out it even had a name. What I find strange is I am not a person who has any other phobias or fears for the most part, I wonder what was the trigger to make me feel this way about submerged man made things. I remember being at the peer as a kid and seeing the bottom of a ship underwater creeped me the hell out

Cool video! Should have more views for real!

As someone with a severe case of Astrophobia. I can very well understand submechanophobia or thalassophobia without really having it myself.

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I am the complete opposite of you lmaooo. Unfortunately I'm slow and I didn't know astrophobia was a thing, even tho space is like the scariest thing ever. But I'm completely fascinated by it, I absolutely adore all subjects and I'm so interested in figuring out whats out there. I would die to get to visit the ISS.

Your channel is cool

5:21 literally jumpscared me and made me anxious af

You know today is gonna be good because cresendex posted

I would love to see you discuss astrophobia since I don’t see many people cover that subject

The way i have anxiety just looking at these pictures… this is my like 100000th irrational fear

I wouldn't say I have submechanophobia, but I find images of large man-made objects of which you can not tell the size of extremely unnerving.

I have submechanophobia, but I only have the fear of bottoms of boats/propellers, buoys, mines, chains, but I don't have a fear of flooded buildings. I am also very fascinated with the ocean, ocean life, and shipwrecks, so I land on both sides. Weird

Offshore wind farms are absolutely the exact thing made of my nightmares. I CANNOT stand even watching videos about them fully because I legitimately start freaking out…….it just doesn’t belong there. Short and simple.

this became a lot more common after the incident

Can confirm that flooded buildings and floods overall are scary, I even have recurring nightmares about that stuff.

This is so scary 😭

Shipwrecks don't bother me at all. but active mechanical structures underwater really freak me out (so like, dams, hydroelectric power stations, those pump station things you see, etc) And it's pretty rational in that, you don't wanna be sucked into any of these things....

Loved the space video and this one as well great stuff please make more

I’m don’t have this phobia but I can weirdly understand it, similar to how most people who don’t have megalophobia feel about it

Sometimes I feel like the only person absolutely sick of the word "liminal"

I HAVE THIS AND WATCHNG THIS VIDEO WAS PURE TERROR OML 💀💀

I had no phobias of anything until I had a bad accident a few years back. Now water freaks me out, and strangely, falling into a gas giant just wrecks me.

I'm another person who didn't know this was a thing, but suffered from it. I've always been terrified of stuff like this. Even the idea of being in the water next to a boat/its undersides freaks me the hell out. But weirdly I like watching videos on the subject and enjoying the mild freaking out here and there. As the different examples were shown my internal reactions were like... that's not bad, not bad, yikes, yeah hell no, no, I don't like that, not bad, not bad, OH JESUS HELL NO, not bad, twinge of fear, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, not bad, not bad, no way. But the super ironic thing is I love all things nautical and especially love shipwrecks, submarines, and other sunken things. They fascinate me. I just don't want to be near them underwater. Also stuff like the nuclear rod storage tank don't bother me at all. I have zero issues with that and would actually love to swim in it if not for the, you know, nuclear rods at the bottom. I think there's multiple parts in why it doesn't bother me. It's an enclosed, purpose-built space with a clear line of sight to the bottom rather than a murky body of water or a deep abyss and with a guarantee of nothing lurking around. It also looks shiny, brand new, and pristine rather than degraded or damaged indicating something went wrong.