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Help Please!!! "Megalo-numerophiba"?
12 years ago
Just to clarify...
Megalophiba: Fear of large objects...
Numerophobia: Fear of numbers...
I don't think this has a name, so I just mixed two already existing fears.
Okay so I need your help. Has this ever happened to you or someone you know? Or do you just happen to know what it is?
When I was little, and even still to this present day, I had this weird fear of... something I'm not sure. I just mixed two fears together, as you see above, until I could think of something better to call it, other then crazyness. Ha, ha. Anyhoo, here is what would happen:
This happened maybe twice every year when I was younger, (until I was 12 or 13?) and once a year now that I am older. (I'm 17 now) Last time it happened was just a few weeks before this last Christmas. Despite the lengthy dates inbetween each event, everyone is as clear as the last.
When I would wake up, at anytime, *from day naps, sleeping at night, falling into a half sleep daydream* I would be in a panic attack, *Heavy or fast breathing, hot, crying* seeing very large numbers floating around the room I fell asleep in. NOT large in quanity. But large in stature. In fact, most of the time the numbers never got past 10. The highest I think was 23. However they would try to multiply and become larger anyway.
They terrfied me. These numbers, for whatever reason, were like a... I don't know. Just plain frightening.
Sometimes objects were involved, but this was rare. The object was normally something weird, like a set of large wooden stairs, or giant pieces of pink floating taffy, or a bunch of big multi-colored husky plushies that people were forcing me to make for them. I would be crying to my parents trying best to explain it, but it would just come out as gibberish. "The taffy was floating there and the numbers kept getting larger!" I'd say something along the lines of that, but with more blubbering. When I think about seeing those numbers again, I still freak out a bit. I can feel my face heat up and I may breath faster. But it doesn't bother me so much because I can choose to stop thinking about them when I need to. Obviously. *Thank goodness! :)* Unlike the panic attacks which last a while...
My family and friends had no idea what it was, and neither did I. We couldn't place it. :/
I used to think maybe it was because I had a fever or was overheating, because the first I remember it happening to me was when I was sick. (I believe I was about 6 or 7 years old when it first started) I also tend to have nightmares when I overheat. I ruled this out though because when it happens, I am always AWAKE! And even when I was feeling perfectly fine, it still happened. At the strangest of times too. Like when I returned from a Theme Park one night with my friend, (I was 16) I had to get up at night, wonder into their kitchen and get some water. Then practice some breathing in their bathroom and assure myself the numbers *and the plushie huskies, this is when I saw those* weren't there. I went back to bed with my Ipod on very quitely to help calm myself down. I didn't have my Mother or Father with me, so it was even more scary.
It even happened when I was at Disney World once too. :c
Today with my free time in hand, decided to look it up. Now I've done this before, last time it happened, since then I realized that I could try and look it up. I found nothing then. Today however, I found this, and ONLY this. A Yahoo Answers question by a man that sounds very familiar to my situation.
Here it is:
Panic attacks during sleep, fear of large numbers?
When I was younger I used to wake up late at night in a panic (breathing very fast, shaking, etc.) and I would wake my parents up and be saying strange things to them that wouldn't make sense. All I would remember from these panic attacks were seeing very uncompromisably big numbers scrolling across the room and being very freaked out about them. Still when I think of huge numbers I get an uneasy, kinda freaked out feeling.
This was brought up in a conversation with my friend the other day and he said he used to have the exact same issue too including the fear of large numbers! It made me think that it could be more common than I thought! Has anyone heard of this or is their a name for it? Especially the big numbers part? Or am I crazy..
See?
Now most people I am sure would rule this out as Numerophobia, fear of numbers. But I'm not afraid of numbers. Heck, I have a key board right here in front of me! See? 78378882134376873110332! Numbers! Weeee! I'm fine at Math, count sheep when I'm sleepy, you know, ect...
Or maybe they would say Megalophobia, fear of large objects, *Namely objects that are larger then they should be... like oversized pencils or coffee cups, animals, ect* because the numbers were so large. They were very cartoony, kind of like bubble text. Occasionally the size of my head to the size of a TV, or larger. But... I don't think this is the case either.
Basically the help I need is this. Has this ever happened, or still happen, to you or someone you know? Or do you just know what this may be? I'd very much like to find out what it is.
Megalophiba: Fear of large objects...
Numerophobia: Fear of numbers...
I don't think this has a name, so I just mixed two already existing fears.
Okay so I need your help. Has this ever happened to you or someone you know? Or do you just happen to know what it is?
When I was little, and even still to this present day, I had this weird fear of... something I'm not sure. I just mixed two fears together, as you see above, until I could think of something better to call it, other then crazyness. Ha, ha. Anyhoo, here is what would happen:
This happened maybe twice every year when I was younger, (until I was 12 or 13?) and once a year now that I am older. (I'm 17 now) Last time it happened was just a few weeks before this last Christmas. Despite the lengthy dates inbetween each event, everyone is as clear as the last.
When I would wake up, at anytime, *from day naps, sleeping at night, falling into a half sleep daydream* I would be in a panic attack, *Heavy or fast breathing, hot, crying* seeing very large numbers floating around the room I fell asleep in. NOT large in quanity. But large in stature. In fact, most of the time the numbers never got past 10. The highest I think was 23. However they would try to multiply and become larger anyway.
They terrfied me. These numbers, for whatever reason, were like a... I don't know. Just plain frightening.
Sometimes objects were involved, but this was rare. The object was normally something weird, like a set of large wooden stairs, or giant pieces of pink floating taffy, or a bunch of big multi-colored husky plushies that people were forcing me to make for them. I would be crying to my parents trying best to explain it, but it would just come out as gibberish. "The taffy was floating there and the numbers kept getting larger!" I'd say something along the lines of that, but with more blubbering. When I think about seeing those numbers again, I still freak out a bit. I can feel my face heat up and I may breath faster. But it doesn't bother me so much because I can choose to stop thinking about them when I need to. Obviously. *Thank goodness! :)* Unlike the panic attacks which last a while...
My family and friends had no idea what it was, and neither did I. We couldn't place it. :/
I used to think maybe it was because I had a fever or was overheating, because the first I remember it happening to me was when I was sick. (I believe I was about 6 or 7 years old when it first started) I also tend to have nightmares when I overheat. I ruled this out though because when it happens, I am always AWAKE! And even when I was feeling perfectly fine, it still happened. At the strangest of times too. Like when I returned from a Theme Park one night with my friend, (I was 16) I had to get up at night, wonder into their kitchen and get some water. Then practice some breathing in their bathroom and assure myself the numbers *and the plushie huskies, this is when I saw those* weren't there. I went back to bed with my Ipod on very quitely to help calm myself down. I didn't have my Mother or Father with me, so it was even more scary.
It even happened when I was at Disney World once too. :c
Today with my free time in hand, decided to look it up. Now I've done this before, last time it happened, since then I realized that I could try and look it up. I found nothing then. Today however, I found this, and ONLY this. A Yahoo Answers question by a man that sounds very familiar to my situation.
Here it is:
Panic attacks during sleep, fear of large numbers?
When I was younger I used to wake up late at night in a panic (breathing very fast, shaking, etc.) and I would wake my parents up and be saying strange things to them that wouldn't make sense. All I would remember from these panic attacks were seeing very uncompromisably big numbers scrolling across the room and being very freaked out about them. Still when I think of huge numbers I get an uneasy, kinda freaked out feeling.
This was brought up in a conversation with my friend the other day and he said he used to have the exact same issue too including the fear of large numbers! It made me think that it could be more common than I thought! Has anyone heard of this or is their a name for it? Especially the big numbers part? Or am I crazy..
See?
Now most people I am sure would rule this out as Numerophobia, fear of numbers. But I'm not afraid of numbers. Heck, I have a key board right here in front of me! See? 78378882134376873110332! Numbers! Weeee! I'm fine at Math, count sheep when I'm sleepy, you know, ect...
Or maybe they would say Megalophobia, fear of large objects, *Namely objects that are larger then they should be... like oversized pencils or coffee cups, animals, ect* because the numbers were so large. They were very cartoony, kind of like bubble text. Occasionally the size of my head to the size of a TV, or larger. But... I don't think this is the case either.
Basically the help I need is this. Has this ever happened, or still happen, to you or someone you know? Or do you just know what this may be? I'd very much like to find out what it is.
