Scared of Water?
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
sometimes I have flashes of that, too. If a mass swim I figure we scare most stuff away though.
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hakadoru posted 1 year ago.
My daughteris the same way. She's afraid the fish will come up and bite her.
Well they do. If you sit still long enough.
I grew up with a lake down the road from my house and we'd go sit in the water and WAIT for the fish to come up and nibble on us. Pretty cool.
I guess it's all just a state of mind.
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cayman posted 1 year ago.
Not being able to see the bottom used to really freak me out, but like a lot of things, the more you do it the more you get used to it. Now I just focus on the swim and ignore the fear voices.
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watrbg2 posted 1 year ago.
The things "swimming down there" are the reason I LOVE mass starts. Hit, me, kick me, swim over me, I don't care. I figure most of the things are scared away and even if they aren't, I have a pretty good chance of not being eaten with all the other bodies around. That is, unless I swim too far off course or I'm a straggler... then the "thinning the weak from the herd" thoughts start... Yikes!
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
I like it when there are "Don't feed the alligators" signs near the start of the race. Actually, they're at the start of almost every lake swim I've done. Still haven't been eaten!
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MAggie posted 1 year ago.
I am scared of the water as well. First open water swim at a race freaked me out beyond belief and I thought that I was about to have a panic attack.
Also, in college I dropped a scuba course after I went to the first class and saw where we would swim because it made me clausterphobic(sp?):confused:
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RV posted 1 year ago.
Pretty common, like someone said: it just takes getting used to. Some of the lakes around here can be really deep - that used to make me nervous. Or one that surprised me was swimming in one lake that was horribly silty (if that is a word). The water was literally black after the first wave went through and stirred everything up. It was complete darkness in the water. That took some getting used to.
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ggalvao posted 1 year ago.
The ocean particularly gives me the creeps. It's strange that I have an irrational fear of whales.
And I don't like the idea of beings swimming below me either. But, hell, they LIVE there!
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MartinMuehl posted 1 year ago.
I'm not really used to open water swims (don't have that much in middle europe), but the few times I have done that where also kind of strange.
I wouldn't mind sharks or most of the other beings down there though, but what really freaks me out are jellyfish. I really hate those.
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Tri Fanatic posted 1 year ago.
I am scared of the same thing. I don't want to know whats below me, even if i can't touch it because it is really deep or anything. I used to just swim with my head above the water so I didn't have to deal with it, but now I learned how to swim (finally!) and I am going to be seeing a lot of whats beneath me so I figure I better get used to it
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Ironmom posted 1 year ago.
I get flashes of this at the start of every open-water swimming season. Which is odd, because I spent years scuba diving, and have dove with dozens of sharks, a whale, etc... but not being able to see what's beneath me is what I don't like.
You just get used to it. The first time each year is the hardest, and then it gets easier. Mass starts are sometimes better, sometimes worse. Better because you know that no living being in its right mind will be anywhere near the thrashing mass of bodies. Worse, because it can churn up silt and even worse....lakeweed...ewwww
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brittda posted 1 year ago.
I think it happens to the best of us---I grew up swimming and do ok for myself. Like Ironmom, I SCUBA and have swum with all sorts of creatures. I can tell you one time during a mass start I got tangled up in some lilly pads/lakeweed and almost had a panic attack :eek: until I told myself to "knock it off and get moving".
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
I think we all kinda share that fear it's the fear of the unknown. It's not what's down there it's what you can't see that is down there that scares us. Wanna hear something funny? My family has a lake house at Lake Anna in VA. Well you know what still flashes through my mind sometimes? A Giant Squid swimming under me and wrapping me up... Never mind that it is
A. Fresh Water
B. At least a hundred miles from the ocean
C. is only like 50 feet deep at it's deepest location
D. a man made lake...
Irrational fears we all have them (me maybe a little more :) )
Its not that im "scared" of the water itself..just the thought of what is swimming "down there" while im splashing around on the surface scares the snot out of me..if you cant tell im a wuss.
anybody else or am I just crazy?
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