Post: #1

Is the fear to objects or surfaces with small holes in em...

Here's the link to an article..

Post: #2

Quote:do you have it?

Yes!

Post: #3

Be warned, the article posted by BCien will fuck you up depending on your level of trypophobia. The good stuff comes up after some scrolling.

However, trypophobia may not be such a bad thing.

Do you have a fear of holes? It could be survival instinct, says new study
"Phobias are, by definition, irrational. But trypophobia, a seemingly weird fear described for the first time by British scientists this week, may actually have an evolutionary basis.

Trypophobia is an intense aversion to the sight of objects that are pockmarked or clustered with holes. Sufferers can be set off by things as innocuous as the seed pod of a lotus or a bar of aerated chocolate.

Gagging at flowers and chocolate probably doesn’t sound like a clever survival instinct. But almost by accident, Geoff Cole, a vision and attention expert at the University of Essex, discovered that trypophobic images share visual characteristics with highly poisonous animals. "

Post: #4

Good thing women does not have too many visible holes close together.

Post: #5

Well the stretch marks one was pretty gross.

Post: #6

Terrifying....

Post: #7

I'll admit the last few pictures do almost go into the uncanny valley, but the pictures are more weird/funny than chilling.

Post: #8

Was doing great until the stretchmarks one.

Post: #9

I haven't even opened the link and I already feel my skull tingling.

Post: #10

No problem here. They do look diseased though.

Like maggots eating through flesh.

Post: #11

I am going to have nightmares about that strawberry