| Despite having flown over 50+ times 12:32 - Aug 2 with 6255 views | hype313 |
Recently I've developed an irrational fear of flying, anyone else had similar or am I just being a berk? |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 12:37 - Aug 2 with 4319 views | catch74 |
Definitely the same, think it was when I’d had kids, possibly changes things. I’m actually back to ok with flying now. Have to say going through the edge of a named hurricane on the way back from Cuba didn’t help either- utterly petrified.
I had a similar thing with heights. There’s a place we went on honeymoon, you can float down a lazy river and at points climb up mini cliffs to jump back in, did so thinking nothing of it. Went back with the kids a few years later, rushed up to the same point and nearly sh%t myself, lifeguard was laughing at me - eventually managed to jump under duress from the kids. |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 12:38 - Aug 2 with 4303 views | homer_123 |
The 'fear' isn't generally to do with flying but more to do with 'not' flying. |  |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:41 - Aug 2 with 4266 views | Bloots |
….a fear of heights.
As I’ve got older it’s developed into a bit of vertigo.
It never affected flying, but the last few times I’ve flown I’ve stopped gazing at the ground out of the window.
Flying in general is just a means to an end and anyone that says they enjoy it is lying! |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 12:42 - Aug 2 with 4262 views | DanTheMan |
I have one, but I've always hated it.
But as homer says, it's more to do with the fear I'll stop flying. |  |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:47 - Aug 2 with 4178 views | hype313 |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:41 - Aug 2 by Bloots |
….a fear of heights.
As I’ve got older it’s developed into a bit of vertigo.
It never affected flying, but the last few times I’ve flown I’ve stopped gazing at the ground out of the window.
Flying in general is just a means to an end and anyone that says they enjoy it is lying! |
Same as me, especially after take off when the plane turns, I get terrible vertigo for a minute or two.
Think that's down to anxiety.
I also have a fear of heights, but someone once said it's not a fear of heights it's a fear of falling, which kina makes sense. | |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:48 - Aug 2 with 4161 views | Radlett_blue |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:41 - Aug 2 by Bloots |
….a fear of heights.
As I’ve got older it’s developed into a bit of vertigo.
It never affected flying, but the last few times I’ve flown I’ve stopped gazing at the ground out of the window.
Flying in general is just a means to an end and anyone that says they enjoy it is lying! |
Fear of heights is acrophobia.
Vertigo is a different symptom, although it is sometimes aroused by being in a high place. |  |
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| Yeah, mines a fear of falling…. on 12:50 - Aug 2 with 4128 views | Bloots |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:47 - Aug 2 by hype313 |
Same as me, especially after take off when the plane turns, I get terrible vertigo for a minute or two.
Think that's down to anxiety.
I also have a fear of heights, but someone once said it's not a fear of heights it's a fear of falling, which kina makes sense. |
….or to be precise more of a fear of jumping!
I honestly get the urge to jump when I’m at any sort of height.
(I imagine that would please certain posters on here!) | |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 12:51 - Aug 2 with 4107 views | davblue |
Yeah had this around 08 in my mid to late twenties lasted a few years, I don’t love flying now but I didn’t enjoy that period of my life when I was flying. I wasn’t hysterical or anything but I didn’t enjoy the flights one bit but the flights we tended to go on at that point were 8 plus hour ones, so no short ones.
Didn’t do anything about it just got through it. |  | | |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 12:56 - Aug 2 with 4035 views | Churchman |
It’s strange how the human mind works and perceptions of things do change over time. You feel how you feel.
Flying? Always loved it and aircraft and I still do, even if long airline travel is a bit boring. |  | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:03 - Aug 2 with 3982 views | IndependentlyBlue |
As others have said, not so much flying but heights. Was staying in Italy a few years back in the hills outside Luca and was ok driving up and down on a daily basis. Few years later was on holiday in Spain in a similar location and was so petrified couldn’t drive at all. Feel dizzy now when l watch the mountain stages of the Tour de France.
What changes inside to bring that about? |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:11 - Aug 2 with 3891 views | Illinoisblue |
As I’ve got older I’ve developed some mild claustrophobia/anxiety. Weirdest example at the barbers I go to they put a hot towel on your face. I refuse that now as it freaks me out and I feel like I can’t breathe. And was at the theatre last year and just before the show started the lights went out and I had a mild panic attack and felt trapped. Assume this is all due to getting older.
Flying has never bothered me, largely due to the fact if something goes wrong there’s not a lot you can do about it. |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:22 - Aug 2 with 3807 views | KungfuBlue |
I developed this exact same thing which was really painful as I need to travel a lot for work (3 or 4 flights a month)
I got vertigo on take off and occasionally once up in the air, I got past it by downloading a playlist of songs I loved or that calmed me and I always wear headphones on take off now and at times of turbulence. I find the distraction of having music in my ears really helps. |  | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:30 - Aug 2 with 3745 views | J2BLUE |
Yea, over water, and the fact you're above the clouds in a metal tin which gravity wants to put in the ground. |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:34 - Aug 2 with 3705 views | KBsSocks |
Love flying, and always have. Prefer smaller planes as you can feel the wind-waves. Mostly these days it's just a means-to-an-end in these enormous great monsters.
I also like sailing, which gives me similar pleasure.
I don't like roller-coaster fairground rides, tho', haha.
But, yes, things change - your senses deteriorate, and other conditions may take hold. If you don't like it, try not to do it. |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:35 - Aug 2 with 3697 views | PrideOfTheEast |
I have a big issue with it that developed in my early 20s. Not scared of the plane crashing but more being a confined space. It’s basically a panic attack for the first 15mins of any flight and is dreadful to be honest. I now sit on my own, same seat pretty much every time, have to close the shutter if flying in economy even when they tell you not to on take off. |  | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:39 - Aug 2 with 3668 views | cressi |
Never been a real lover but needs must to get anywhere or stuck in a car for days. I'm going paragliding in September lol .. | | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:43 - Aug 2 with 3639 views | GlasgowBlue |
It never bothered me as a kid but when I lived abroad in my late 20's I used to hate flying home every three months or so and had that fear. A few years later I used to commute from Glasgow to London every Monday by air, returning home on Friday and I was flying so regularly in all sorts of weather that I lost the fear. |  |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 13:44 - Aug 2 with 3617 views | GlasgowBlue |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:41 - Aug 2 by Bloots |
….a fear of heights.
As I’ve got older it’s developed into a bit of vertigo.
It never affected flying, but the last few times I’ve flown I’ve stopped gazing at the ground out of the window.
Flying in general is just a means to an end and anyone that says they enjoy it is lying! |
I have vertigo by proxy. Heights don't worry me at all but if I'm climbing a munro or near the edge of a cliff with my Mrs or my kids I come over in a panic that they will fall. It really freaks me out. | |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:46 - Aug 2 with 3593 views | Immy |
Never been afraid of it before but been a bit more jittery since all the stuff about Boeing came out recently. |  | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 13:58 - Aug 2 with 3515 views | _clive_baker_ |
I wouldn't say its irrational. Its quite rational to me to be nervous about stepping onto a metal can to travel 40,000 ft above land at 500 mph across the Atlantic.
I hate flying, mine is more physical though. I've been a frequent flier and my ears / head / eyes sometimes really hurt from the pressure. Its a bit hit and miss but I've had nosebleeds in the past and agony I've never ever felt on terra firma, and I include breaking bones and ligaments. Really puts me off as when its bad its excruciating. |  | | |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 14:13 - Aug 2 with 3452 views | Trequartista |
I don't think it is irrational.
I mean it's irrational to think you are going to crash each time you fly, but its not irrational for your brain and body to react like that when you are so far above firm ground in a tin can. |  |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 14:14 - Aug 2 with 3446 views | unbelievablue |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 13:44 - Aug 2 by GlasgowBlue |
I have vertigo by proxy. Heights don't worry me at all but if I'm climbing a munro or near the edge of a cliff with my Mrs or my kids I come over in a panic that they will fall. It really freaks me out. |
That is not vertigo. |  |
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| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 14:19 - Aug 2 with 3399 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| I’ve always had a bit of…. on 12:48 - Aug 2 by Radlett_blue |
Fear of heights is acrophobia.
Vertigo is a different symptom, although it is sometimes aroused by being in a high place. |
..You said 'aroused'....
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 14:20 - Aug 2 with 3402 views | artsbossbeard |
Do not, I repeat, do not ever fly with Lord Lucan.
Worst plane passenger known to man. |  |
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| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 14:27 - Aug 2 with 3266 views | hype313 |
| Despite having flown over 50+ times on 14:20 - Aug 2 by artsbossbeard |
Do not, I repeat, do not ever fly with Lord Lucan.
Worst plane passenger known to man. |
Not surprised given his history on trains | |
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