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Thread started 09/05/13 12:07am

Efan

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Does this picture gross you out? (Safe for work)

If it does, there's a good chance you have trypophobia.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/04/218958362/the-inside-story-on-the-fear-of-holes?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130904



Trypophobia may be moving out of the urban dictionary and into the scientific literature.

A recent study in the peer-review journal Psychological Science takes a first crack at explaining why some people may suffer from a fear of holes.

Trypophobia may be hard to find in textbooks and diagnostic manuals, but a brief Web search will show that plenty of people appear to have it.

There's even a website, , that explains the problem like this:

"Have you ever felt anxious when you see a hole in the road or a pot? Or are you nervous when someone will bring a cheese with lots of holes in front of you? If yes, you might have trypophobia."


But why?


Geoff Cole and Arnold Wilkins, both researchers at the , decided to analyze the characteristics of the images that appear on the trypophobia.com website.


"You can take any image and break it down into its core fundamental components meaningful to the visual system," Cole tells Shots. "This would be things like luminance, contrast, wavelength of light."


When they performed their analysis, they found that images that evoked the phobic reaction to holes had quite unique characteristics in terms of contrast and levels of fine details.

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Reply #1 posted 09/05/13 12:12am

Tempest

No. Its doesn't gross me out. It's actually quite pretty.

Guess I must not be afraid of holes and that's good thing. biggrin

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Reply #2 posted 09/05/13 12:37am

Tokyo89

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Yes confused
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Reply #3 posted 09/05/13 1:32am

Mach

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Cool ~ You can dry those and use them in Earthy type decorations !

~ Same as it ever was ...
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Reply #4 posted 09/05/13 4:29am

NDRU

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I saw that article and that photo did not especially gross me out.

But recently on facebook there was a photo of a child's skull, and you could see all the baby teeth still in the jaw. It looked similar to this plant, and it really creeped me out! I could not really understand why, but it makes me uneasy even now, just thinking about it!

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Reply #5 posted 09/05/13 5:30am

morningsong

If all the little pods were taken out it wouldn't gross me out. I only realized that after reading Mach's post and remember I've seen those all the time as decorations and they never grossed me out. So it ain't the holes that's the problem.
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Reply #6 posted 09/05/13 6:49am

LayzieKiddZ

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I know where this is going.

But does give a legit weird feeling. My grandmother had this worn out wooden window sill, and in it it would have a ton of little holes in it, I remember being a child and going by it and feeling disgusted for some reason.

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Reply #7 posted 09/05/13 1:06pm

tinaz

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It doesnt gross me out... Its not cool or pretty to me at all... I could see where one would correlate that to bot flies feeling ill
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Reply #8 posted 09/05/13 1:33pm

Tempest

Now those holes with the pods transposed onto the hand crude me out. nod

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Reply #9 posted 09/05/13 2:12pm

PurpleJedi

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LayzieKiddZ said:

I know where this is going.

But does give a legit weird feeling. My grandmother had this worn out wooden window sill, and in it it would have a ton of little holes in it, I remember being a child and going by it and feeling disgusted for some reason.


omfg

lol

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Reply #10 posted 09/05/13 2:57pm

orger

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I've seen some gross holes before...but that aint them

How is it you feel?
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Reply #11 posted 09/05/13 4:09pm

kewlschool

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LayzieKiddZ said:

I know where this is going.

But does give a legit weird feeling. My grandmother had this worn out wooden window sill, and in it it would have a ton of little holes in it, I remember being a child and going by it and feeling disgusted for some reason.

I'm thinking too much self love, this guy impregnated his own hand! lol

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Reply #12 posted 09/05/13 8:17pm

JoeTyler

for some reason, it irritates me

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Reply #13 posted 09/06/13 7:37pm

KidaDynamite

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All of these pics are giving me goose bumps and I feel itchy.......I HATE IT!!!!!!!

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Reply #14 posted 09/07/13 3:22am

ThisOne

The green plant is nice

The hand is freaky - it is more thane gross eek
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Reply #15 posted 09/07/13 4:57am

Hudson

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Yeah, it makes my butt and my head itch. I adblocked both of them.

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Reply #16 posted 09/07/13 5:15am

morningsong

That hand is the most disturbing picture I've seen on the org. That's saying a lot. Dang it makes my skin crawl just thinking about it not even seeing it. Oh why, oh why did I. I can never unsee that. duh cool
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Reply #17 posted 09/10/13 1:30pm

Shyra

LayzieKiddZ said:

I know where this is going.

But does give a legit weird feeling. My grandmother had this worn out wooden window sill, and in it it would have a ton of little holes in it, I remember being a child and going by it and feeling disgusted for some reason.

THIS grosses me out! ill

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Reply #18 posted 09/10/13 5:54pm

Slave2daGroove

Great thread!

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