• Treefox@lemmy.ml
    61·
    10 months ago

    I’m kind of weird. I can’t stand the idea of swimming in the deep ocean. It makes me skil crawl and want to run as far away as I can… despite loving the ocean. Just don’t make me swim in deep ocean waters.

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      I’m not sure if those first two sentences are connected. 😉 Anyway, that fear is called thalassophobia, and is very common.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      That’s a perfectly normal and healthy fear, for those mortals who dare display hubris towards the endless sea shall be met with a fate most grim

    • Sibbo
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yeah. It’s so weird imagining that there is so much dark space below oneself, where anything could be lurking.

      And stop moving, and you’ll sink deep down. No safeguard that stops you at some point. You’ll just sink and sink and sink.