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Fear of open water and sea monsters?

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hi i have this thing about seas/oceans and sea monsters

especially the latter

if i see a picture of a sea monster i feel physically sick, scared and upset. Its pathetic. I know theyre not real. its not just sea monsters its real sea animals like sharks and giant squid. they just make me feel so upset.

i feel cruel because i know its not the animals fault. it makes me scared of open water because i get scared that something is lurking beneath.

i am a scientist someday i may have to deal with these kinds of things.

how get rid of this phobia

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  1.  @ sherry fox. I always think theyre gonna break through the tub and eat me too. I oanic when under water, i worry that id turn around and see a sea monster swimming full speed at me. I have that fear also. Its terrible, i love the ocean and all of its real inhabitants. I love sharks, im only afraid of the fake stuff. Even though i know its not real. I feel sick and im shaking from typing this. I need help. I feel uncomfortable thinking about then on dry freaking land! In my bedroom which is miles and miles away from the ocean i fear ill see one just flying around in the air. I also worry about fishing in the ocean. I get worried ill catch a sea monster(i presume that theyre really strong) and itll pull the whole boat under and kill everybody.


  2. Perhaps Thalassophobia


  3.  I have the same fear but it really doesn't make sense for me seeing as swimming is the only sport that I like and are good at and I'm not terrified of sea monsters but i'm terrified of them being underwater it just freaks me out. When even swimming in a simi deep pool half way through swimming to the other side i'll get a sudden panic that I need to swim as fast as possible and get out because somethings beneath me. I also really like shows with these types of creatures in for example Primeval was a awesome show but when they had the massive crocodile in the swimming pool and a lonley guy swimming with no one else there I fainted. I try stick it out a lot but it just gets to me.


  4. I have an irrational fear of prehistoric sea monsters


    I was left alone in a natural history museum for a full day while my mother was leading tours and I was so scared of the dinosaur bones of prehistoric sea creatures, I'm getting sick in my stomach just typing this. Does anyone know of the name for the fear we have? Of sea monsters? 


  5.  . Same here guys. Before I wasn't scared of the sea or any bodies of water, but as soon as I learned about those sea creatures and even real sea animals, I got scared of swimming. Even in a swimming pool! Sometimes I think when I'm swimming a shark would chase me and I'm going to swim fast to the portion of the pool where I can touch the floor. I'm also extremely scared of sea creatures. Specially sea dinosaurs and that liouplerodon. Every time I see a picture of it I always get so scared thinking that a sea dinosaur is watching beside me. I'm also afraid of sharks. I don't like watching shark movies specially Jaws. But I love Nessie. But not the scary one. The "WATER HORSE" one in the movie. Its cute. But anyway I'm still scared of SEA CREATURES!!!!!!


  6. Im so glad some other people have this fear! I am petrified of being in the sea, when i cant see the bottom, or if there are rocks or seaweed beneath me. Any fish bigger than 60cm  im scared of, and dont even mention whales! Sea monsters scare me too, i noticed a comment about a liopleurodon, and looked it up on google images, as soon as one of the thumbnail images came up my heart raced my hands shook so much i could barely  shut the screen down.  It really bugs me, living in an area with beaches just down the road, but not being able to enjoy them cause i just cant go in the water, id love to get over it but i just dont know how!


  7.  i had no idea that other people had this fear aswell. for me it all started when i watched walking with dinosaurs when i was about 8 or 9 maybe, the episode with the liouplerodon. after that i was terrified of taking showers because i could see the "seamonsters" coming for me :s Now, 10 years later its not as bad anymore, i can take showers and swim in large swimmingpools without even thinking about it. BUT, every time i see a picture of one of the seamonsters that i was particularily afraid of (liouplerodon, basilosaurus and a pretty much everything that resembles them) i get paralyzed with fear and start panicing. I think that maybe it's the size that scares me but im not sure.


  8.  Thank god I found this! I am also terrified of sea monsters! "Water Horse" gave me nightmares (I know it's a kids movie, but it scared me!). All my friends also make fun of me for this. One day I wandered across a picture of a sea monster on the internet and my friend had to hold me because I was shaking so much. Good to know it's a real fear!


  9. wow i thought i was the only one afraid of sea monsters and oceans and etc.


    i sometimes freak out a little when i get a bath (not like FREAK OUT) i feel like a sea creature like shark is going to break through the tub and eat me...-_-"


    my stomach turns and i feel scared and sick when i see images of sea monsters sometimes thinking of them as well ....


    also what is the phobia of seamonsters called anyway ???


  10. Hello everyone! I'm mega scared of open water, especially deep, murky water too. Not so bad if I can see the bottom and it's sandy (I can snorkle in Cyprus far out to sea), but as soon as there are some rocks beneath me, I can't see the bottom or what's around me, it's jagged, there's a crevass then I freak. I jumped in a Loch (not Ness :p) in Scotland last summer it was black water and around 30m deep. All my friends think it's ridiculous how scared I am and so didn't believe me, but as soon as I went underwater and couldn't reach the boat I started hyperventilating. 


    I remember I used to always swim in sea, rivers, waterfalls etc...can't remember when this far started...I just always feel like there's something behind/underneath me ready to drag me down under the water. Like when I was about 12 in Spain in a pool I couldn't face away from the edge as I'd have a panic attack thinking there was something chasing me in the water.


    Stupid fear has come from nowhere! And it's a pain, I really want to learn how to kayak and wakeboard but too scared now. I'm not scared of sea monsters/sharks/whakes etc on films, pictures, museum etc. But the thought of being lost at sea does make me feel sick. Bleurgh.


    Does anyone have any tips on how to overcome ths fear?


  11. Hi .i too am terrified of sea monsters, deep seas, and also storms at sea. I think I can trace it back to getting an annual for christmas as a small child, opening a double page spread and being confronted with a rolling, boiling sea, with a humunguss sea serpent wrapping itself around a sailing ship, which looked like a toy it was so small in comparison, What a horribl eimage to put in a small childs annual. By the way, it was the Topper  or some such really small kids annual


     


  12. Whoa. I am finally starting to recover from my fear of alligators/crocodiles/cayman but it's nice to hear about other people. I am fine if I have at the very least one other person in the water WITH me, not on a dock or float or something. It was terrible and my friends and family would all get mad at me when I refused to go swimming. When I finally would my friend would push me off of the dock. i'm fine if I can see around me, but when the water is dark or murky...ugh.

  13. Whoa. I am finally starting to recover from my fear of alligators/crocodiles/cayman but it's nice to hear about other people. I am fine if I have at the very least one other person in the water WITH me, not on a dock or float or something. It was terrible and my friends and family would all get mad at me when I refused to go swimming. When I finally would my friend would push me off of the dock. i'm fine if I can see around me, but when the water is dark or murky...ugh.

  14. Whoa. I am finally starting to recover from my fear of alligators/crocodiles/cayman but it's nice to hear about other people. I am fine if I have at the very least one other person in the water WITH me, not on a dock or float or something. It was terrible and my friends and family would all get mad at me when I refused to go swimming. When I finally would my friend would push me off of the dock. i'm fine if I can see around me, but when the water is dark or murky...ugh.

  15. Yeah... My friends have always laughed at me for being afraid of dark, deep, open water and the things that lurk beneath. I developed this fear a matter of years ago. We went on a field trip in school to a biology museum. I was all fine and dandy looking at the buffalos and the birds, watching the shallow creek run through. Until I walked around the corner of a wall marked "SEA CREATURES". I immediately was staring down the throat of a 15 foot long, 10 foot high lantern fish (Or whatever the scientific term is), with rows and rows of jagged teeth, and glinting eyes. I ran and hid in the corner beneath a tree, because I was little at the time. This fear is revisited day after day. My family took me to see "Prehistoric Seas" in 3D, and I had to take my glasses of, close my eyes, and clench my chair. I'd say the worst occasion is when I downloaded an app on my iPod to help me sleep. It's comprised of all sorts of sounds that soothe you, or so I thought. It was pitch black in my room when I started the app up. My curiosity got the best of me, and I picked "Ocean breezes". While it was loading I pressed the lock button, so there was no light. I was immediately frozen with fear when the sounds of slosshing water and splashing waves came on in my headphones. All I could think about was glowing eyes looking up at me from under the water.

    But yes, I thought I was alone in this fear, like everyone else that posted. I don't know if there is a cure, since I haven't tried anything, but people seem to say going with people you know works. Best of luck to you all.

  16. Whoa...to echo others, I thought I was the only one!

    I grew up in Hawaii (yes, HAWAII!), and like most kids there I went to the beach a lot.  I COULDN'T WAIT to learn how to scuba dive and realize my fantasies of joining the crew of the Calypso and explore the deep.  Then one day in the third grade I had a Lovecraftian moment when I saw a huge cutaway painting of two brontosaurs eating leave on a tree...but with their heads sticking out of the water...AND A FULL VIEW OF THEM AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN IT!  I quickly looked away, feeling quite ill, and very, very confused.  It wasn't too much later when I happened upon the picture of a plesiosaur in a dictionary when my phobia's manifestation was complete.  Just typing this is making me feel uneasy.  As a result I remained out of the water for many years (though I have managed to attempt swimming in the shallows at the beach a few times over the years, and even took swimming lessons)...for a long while I couldn't close my eyes while washing my hair; I'd use my hands to form an "visor" so I could keep them open while I rinsed!

    I just thought of this because a close friend of mine just warned me to avoid the subway train stations here because there's some ad for a sea monster cartoon that's HUGE and takes up a whole tunnel.  I asked if there were flippers, and there were none, so I should be okay...but I'll avoid it just in case!

    Is there a name for this phobia?

  17. Personally, I'm am scared of sea monsters but not a ton. Mainly I'm scared of real sea creatures - for ex Im scared that I'd be swimming with a whaleshark and get to close to its mouth and... whoosh im sucked in. *shudders*

  18. Personally, I'm am scared of sea monsters but not a ton. Mainly I'm scared of real sea creatures - for ex Im scared that I'd be swimming with a whaleshark and get to close to its mouth and... whoosh im sucked in. *shudders*

  19. Omg! You guys are just like me!
    Well, I had issues swimming alone in a swimming pool as well due to this phobia because I would end up having this wild imagination that a 20ft alligator/ crocodile is lurking right under me when i am swimming in a pool. Yes it is totally ridiculous but i can't help it.

    Err, just to add this as well.. I am also afraid of giant rocks under water too because I will imagine it as a large turtle shell.
    And umm I also adopt a fear of Submarines due to the fear of sea creatures.

    Can anyone out there teach me on how to overcome this problem?

  20. I have been reading alot about this subject today. And it seems like alot of the people who have this fear also love being in the water and swimming but are simply to afraid to do it alone.  

    That is my case too. Hate being alone in the water but with friends/other people its Kind of OK.

  21. It's so good to see that other people have this problem too. As another person here said their friends joke around about, Mine too, They always joke with me.
    "Eric dude, a giant octopus is coming u r way Wath out!!"
    I hate it :P

    As I am an old snowboarder I have always wanted to surf. I live in Sweden so one day I want to to go australia and surf. Now me and 2 friends are going there in 6 months, and i really wanna surf but I dont think I can do it.

    I am even scared to be alone in a small pool, and when we go the beach/lakes i never go into the water alone It just Freaks me out!  I always think of giant sharks/whaler and Giant octopus I hate it. In sweden the biggest fish is like 40 centimeters.. but i still cant be in the water alone.


    Well if anyone finds any ways to help this phobia please post here=)

  22. I also have a fear of sea monsters and sea dragons or sometimes called sea serpents and open water, but I also love water and the sea and ocean but i can't get over the fact that things are out there that we don't even know about like, Atlantis I have always wanted to find it but I also fear it.

  23. You guys are all the best <3  Like most of you, I seriously thought I was alone in this weird fear.  For me it's not even sharks or squids or whales, it's plesiosaurs, 100% the long-necked Loch Ness Monster variety.  

    I wasn't aware of the phobia even until a couple years ago when I was playing World of Warcraft and encountered "Isha Awak," I refused to go in the water unless I absolutely had to after that... in a game!  I forced myself to go down to this area where an in-game "Nessie" swims around behind glass and was physically ill just watching it.

    Awful things.  Something I don't have to deal with, having never swam in open water, but just the same, I can easily picture one lifting it's head above water next to a bridge or something.

    Just so glad I'm not alone!

  24. i feel i have to put my legs up when i swim i m glad im not a lone

  25. Glad I ran across you guys on the net.... I can swim but I wont linger long in open/deep water because I am completely afraid a sea monster will grab my ankles and take me down under with them!

  26. Oh, my God! I just typed into a search engine the term "fear of sea monsters" and I find out that I am not alone! My friends all laugh at me and say that this phobia does not exist, but I actually get vertigo and sickness just by thinking about open water and sea monsters, esp. the extinct ones; you know, from the dynosaur era. :D
    I've tried to overcome this fear by connecting to the element of water in meditation and it did wonders for me, but it always creeps back after a while...
    Good luck to you!

  27. wow you have no idea how much better i feel by knowing other people experience this too

  28. I don't believe this - I thought I was the only one!  Like, literally, my biggest fear in the WHOLE, ENTIRE WORLD are sea monsters!  By a long shot!  I actually get scared in the shower, and I constantly have nightmares about them in my room.  I mean, "The Water Horse" practically scarred me.  And sharks, especially Jaws, freaks me out too, but not nearly as much as a plesiosaur (aka the Loch Ness Monster, my #1 taboo).  I feel physically disturbed and shaken when I see pictures.  I'm trying to overcome my phobia of them too, but I'm really scared to try and I wouldn't even know where to begin.
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