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Welcome to the forum. :) I want to say that your question is a new twist on an old topic, and it has me thinking. :thumbsup:

I have never had any desire to try beer or ale. I'm not against it in this life (can't speak for any others ;) ), but I've just never wanted to try it or cared for the smell. :)
 
Chelle said:
Welcome to the forum. :) I want to say that your question is a new twist on an old topic, and it has me thinking. :thumbsup:

I have never had any desire to try beer or ale. I'm not against it in this life (can't speak for any others ;) ), but I've just never wanted to try it or cared for the smell. :)
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Im the same way. I have never touched a cigerette or drank any kind of alcohol...Just never felt the want or need to. And i hate the smell of both :eek:
 
Hello AzGrl25!

These are a bit more extreme, but are related to my phobias: I would never go scuba-diving or to space (on a spaceship) even if it was cheap and possible (well of course scuba-diving is).

I'm trying to think how I have got points in the "I have never" -drinking game.. At least I have never drank a cup of coffee, which is really strange here, because in Finland _everybody_ drinks coffee (and I mean _everybody_). But I have tried in in my youth. Another food/drink related thing is olives. I was always sure I wouldn't like them even though I hadn't tried them. And when I did, I was right - I didn't like them. I was really picky with food when I was younger and now I eat almost anything, so olives are an exception. And coffee. Actually I think I might be able to drink it nowadays, but I don't feel the need to learn. I love my Earl Grey with milk like a proper Englishwoman (which I'm not - in this life anyway..).

Love,

Karoliina
 
Chelle said:
Welcome to the forum. :) I want to say that your question is a new twist on an old topic, and it has me thinking. :thumbsup:

I have never had any desire to try beer or ale. I'm not against it in this life (can't speak for any others ;) ), but I've just never wanted to try it or cared for the smell. :)
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Chelle,

I agree with you and PixieFaerie, i've never had any desire to try either of those - because I didn't like the smell and partly because of my childhood. I also have never had a desire to try wine or champagne. I have had a sip of both champagne and beer, and I did not care too much for the taste of either one :eek:

I also love the ocean, but never had much of a desire to really go swimming too far - for the fear of getting swept into the sea. Also as a child, I would not go onto a boat - however, I love boating now :)
 
Oh, I remember something that I HATE that I haven't tried since I was really young. Fried Okra. Ew, nasty nasty stuff. Have no clue if this is PL related--I think it may be.
 
Okra=slimy :-)

Okra is one gross food. I agree with you. It's slimy and slippery. Yuck. Right up there with canned peas on my list of gross foods.

I have none of these myself--I think I've tried all common things--but I had a friend who, as a child, hated macaroni and cheese. Even Kraft macaroni and cheese. I can understand this as an adult, but I have never met another (American) child who didn't like it. And I have known several people who won't eat meat, because it "tastes dead" and not because their family is vegetarian. I actually feel this way, come to think of it. I usually don't eat meat--especially chicken--because it tastes "dead." When I do eat meat, it's only very disguised in other flavors. I'm not sure if it's past-life related, or if I can just taste what is simply there.

I actually know someone who hates chocolate. She always has, since she's been a child. I have always drank coffee, from the minute my parents let me. I used to beg to drink it and my mom would give me a tiny cup with milk. It is one of my favorite drinks and I do think this might be past-life related. But there is nothing I am afraid of doing or have not liked for reasons that I can't clearly see in this life.

Kim
 
KimD said:
I have none of these myself--I think I've tried all common things--but I had a friend who, as a child, hated macaroni and cheese. Even Kraft macaroni and cheese. I can understand this as an adult, but I have never met another (American) child who didn't like it.

I actually know someone who hates chocolate. She always has, since she's been a child.

Kim
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Kim,

My neice hated pizza as a child. She's the only child i've ever met who didn't like pizza. I think it was the sauce that she didn't like. She loves pizza now that she's older, but doesn't like pasta too much. She will only eat pasta if it's plain with parmesan cheese or butter on it.
 
Well, I'm very picky about food. Even foods that I like have to be prepared *just so* for me to enjoy them, so I won't even go there.

As per things I've never tried and don't want to try ever, it's cigarettes. I've never smoked a cigarette in my entire life. I'm actually disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke.

Also, I've never been to a psychic and I never will go to one,because I distrust them very much,and even if they were honest and actually right about things, I dislike the whole idea of hearing things about myself from someone else. I dunno.
 
What were your childhood fears?

This may belong under the childrens section of the forums, but I thought it would also be fitting here too for us adults :)

I remember when I was a child, being terrified of so many different things - especially fire. I was terrified that my house would burn down with me in it, and would always make sure that everything was unplugged, turned off, wires not frayed, etc...especially before going to bed. Sometimes I would wake up at 3 in the morning just to double check :laugh:

A few times I woke up in the middle of the night terrified that I was going to stop breathing. I also remember when I was about 8 or 9, telling my mom on several occasions that I wasn't going to live to be 13.

All of this I know is PL related. When I was 13, I remember having a vivid dream in which I was an 8 yr old girl, watching her house burning in the woods. She had her nightgown on and was holding a teddy bear and had long blond hair. I haven't been quite as scared of fire since I had that dream :)

I've always been scared of heights and I still am a little bit, in particular, edges of cliffs. I don't like standing near the edge, especially if there isn't a railing or wall. I get an overwhelming fear that i'm either going to slip or get pushed off the edge.

What are some of your childhood fears? Did these fears go away at about the age in which you did in a PL like mine did?
 
My childhood fear was growing up.

When I was four years old I remember crying myself to sleep at night on numerous occasions because I didn't know how to be an adult. I didn't know how to write a cheque, use a Visa card or drive. I just didn't understand the modern world I had been born into. I worried myself sick to the point of severe stomach pains. I finally outgrew it at about 12. Now I'm old and I'm fine with it all. :o
 
I always felt so weird to have such a fear like this one. I mean a serious fear for as long as I could remember. i had to be around 4 or 5 and adults would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. "I dont care about who or what I am, I just want to be remembered forever." For a young child to answer that, well, it sticks you. I am incredibly fearful of being forgotten. That is my BIGGEST fear. i still wonder why that type of fear exists.
 
I had at least one odd fear and it can't be PL related, at least directly:

I was very afraid that my bed would rise up to space when I was asleep. I just thought it would be the most awful thing to wake up being alone in space (in my bed) and see our planet underneath. And not knowing what to do or how to get back. I think I was old enough to realize this was not possible in any way or that I couldn't be alive in space without equipments, but still I was so scared I had to hold my arm or leg so that they touched the wall, because I thought then I would wake up if my bed started to go up.

Oh dear :rolleyes: .

But I'm still horrified of the space and wouldn't go space travelling even if it was possible.

Karoliina
 
My childhood fear: thunder. I used to go ballistic. Crying, and sometimes even screaming. When I was about seven, one of the worst possible things (for that fear) happened: the house next door was struck by lightning. Its chimney exploded, hard enough to propel bits of brick to the far side of our yard, and our smoke detector was tripped. After that, the fear was even worse (because, in my young mind, thunder = things exploding). I hated even looking at what was left of the chimney (it looked like something left over from a war).

We left that area and moved a couple of years later to where there were few thunderstorms. In the intervening years, the fear lessened. I don't get hysterical anymore when I hear thunder. But I still absolutely hate it. Logic tells me I should be more afraid of the lightning... but I'm afraid of the noise. :o

Lib
 
I remember being on the beach in Oregon, on a windy day and watching the waves roll in. I was 10 at the time, and I remember fearing that one of the waves would rise really high and swallow me.
 
Ever since I was a little kid I've been terrified of deep water. I still am. When I was really young though I was afraid of the drains at the pool. I was terrified I would be sucked into one.
 
I couldn't fall asleep if any part of my body wasn't covered by the blanket (except my head, of course). When I was really little I had to have two or three blankets on at a time, and I would burrow in between those and a bunch of pillows, even in summertime. I was never scared of the dark, but I always had to fall asleep facing the doorway, and even now I can't fall asleep with my back to the door. My bed always had to be against a wall (and still does).

I was scared to sleep with my window open - if I was in a ground level room -because I was sure someone would come in and take me from my bed while I was sleeping.

I was always scared of "under the bed", especially if I had to get up in the night. I always took a flying leap on and off the bed so I didn't have to be "sucked underneath" by whatever lived there.
 
Ailish said:
I was never scared of the dark, but I always had to fall asleep facing the doorway, and even now I can't fall asleep with my back to the door. My bed always had to be against a wall (and still does).
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I had this same fear... I could only sleep on the side of the bed that is closest to the "escape route," and I always had to sleep on my side facing the door.

I know this had to do with my fear of fire when I was little, because I always also had to have the halllight on...so that way, if I woke up in the middle of the night (which I did quite often) I would be able to see whether or not there was smoke coming from underneath the door...

To be honest, I still always sleep better facing the door! :o
 
Fire, because of the constant nightly nightmares I had about trying to escape from the burning school (which I later came to realise was Krystallnacht, when I almost died). I also still don't like loud noises, particularly balloons popping (although I've always adored thunder and lightning).
 
I was very afraid of putting my head under water. It took me a long time to learn to swim as a result.

Now, I like to swim in warm weather, but the initial moment of putting my head under water still intimidates me a little.
 
germ phobia came and went

When I was about 8 years old (c. 1975-76), I suddenly became gripped with a phobia about germs. At school, I spent so much time washing my hands before lunch that I sometimes did not have time to eat. Everywhere I went, I was afraid of infectious germs.

Just recently an idea about this episode hit me. In my most recent past life, I was born in 1910, which would have made me about 8 years old when the Killer Influenza Pandemic swept the county in 1918-1919, killing about 800,000 Americans in about six months, with most of those dying in October/November 1918 (compared to about 350,000 Americans KIA and wounded in the war). In Philadelphia alone, 10,000 people died in the last two weeks of October. No area of the country (or world) was spared. People who lived through it were traumatized.

Could my temporary germ phobia have been an emotional scar from the Killer Influenza that I witnessed in my previous childhood?
 
When i was young i would not sleep alone. We all had our rooms and our own beds, but i would go get in bed with my sister. I was terrified of being left alone at night. I always had to have a light on as well.
Something about night time i was just afraid of being left alone.
 
im with aquaria on this one! ive always had a fear of swimming pool drains but also those massive air vents, any piece of mechanical equipment that is massively oversized! scary! i dont understand why they scare me, they just do! :rolleyes:
 
What were your childhood fears?

I was afraid that my Mother and daddy would die and leave me alone. I can remember checking the cabinets every day making sure that there was enough food to eat so that I wouldn't starve. I thought that I would have to take care of myself. I did't realize that somebody would have taken me- I hope.
 
cobblestone said:
My childhood fear was growing up.

When I was four years old I remember crying myself to sleep at night on numerous occasions because I didn't know how to be an adult. I didn't know how to write a cheque, use a Visa card or drive. I just didn't understand the modern world I had been born into. I worried myself sick to the point of severe stomach pains. I finally outgrew it at about 12. Now I'm old and I'm fine with it all. :o
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OMG this was so totally me! Seriously. I actually believe my eating disorder was prompted not from a desire to be thin, but rather an attempt to stay in place, in time. I as SO scared of growing up. It's strange because I am a very mature, level-headed, responsible person. Moved out, started college at 16, etc. Yet, this fear! I STILL have this fear and I'll be 26 next month. I'm having a panic over that. I feel 16 in my head, and when I look in a mirror, I see 16 still. Weird huh?

I don't think there is a PL connection with mine - I am just neurotic :) Your experience sounds more PL'y than mine... but it is neat to come across someone else that I can relate to on that! I have never met anyone else that has ever said that!

Jen
 
I had a separation problem when I was a child, starting kindergarten and first grade. I would cry and cry when my mom took me to school.....She and my little sister would have to sit outside the classroom and wait for me, and sneak away if she got a chance. If she couldn't stay, the teacher would have to call her. When I got a little older, I got terrified if my parent's or grandmother was late to pick me up. I don't know if this is from a past life, or if it was something in me knowing the future, when my mom started doing drugs, and I didn't see her for over a year--she is still trying to beat drugs, and I hardly see her anymore.

I also hated to be late. When I was in elem. school, I would cry if I was going to be ON TIME. I wanted to be there early, and I'm still kind of like that today. When I was little (even on weekends) I would set my alarm to 5:45. Don't have any idea where this came from.
 
I have too many to count. As a child and even still as an adult I have a fear of fire. I have never lite a match or used a lighter. I was afraid of the dark. And growing up I was always terrified of being alone, even while driving. I always wanted someone with me. I have a fear of being judged, thru school and college, I would have to get to my classes really early and sit in the back. I was always afraid of missing my bus going to and from school. and my biggest fear was disappointing someone i cared about. makes life a bit difficult
 
I've always had a fear of large waves, but I always thought that was attributed to me having dreams all the time about tidal waves and rising water. Those dreams always leave me with an unsettling feeling....in fact, writing this post just triggered a memory of a particular dream that I believe is from a previous life, possibly Atlantis.

I also remember looking out the window all the time as a child and imagining a large wave swallowing up the city, even though I live in the desert and am nowhere near the ocean.

I never really thought about this being PL related before until I remembered that dream, and it does explain why I have a fear of going
too deep into the ocean for fear of getting swept away into the sea....
 
What are your childhood fears?

I was also terrified of lions and tigers. Of course, there are none of those here in SW VA.I wouldn't even go out on the porch by myself. I am still extremely uncomfortable out of doors. Even if I enjoy being outside, I am always thinking of a reason to go inside. My youngest son whom is 14, is the same way. He can't really tell me why he feel that way, though. He won't even go into another room in the house alone. He says that someone is watching him. Any thoughts? How can I guide him to talk about his fears and how can I guide him to memories? I feel that PL memories are the key to this fear.
 
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