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Trypophobia. I won't link to Wikipedia, if such a thing bothers you I'm not going to try to trigger it.

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I didn't have trypophobia but after looking at Google Images I think I do now

I'll be looking at lotus seeds differently now

I'm not sure if I have it, but when I searched for image examples it looked extremely gross to me.

EDIT: I seriously regret searching it now. Please don't while you still can. It is absolutely grotesque.

> Please don’t while you still can.

Counterpoint: you (reader) should give in to that gnawing feeling of curiosity. One little peek never hurt anyone.

(Really, it’s not that bad.)

I searched it, and, for me it was interesting and I became curious. Some pictures were obviously doctored and made to make you feel something, others, were just.. interesting.

Not everyone is triggered by those pictures, to me they don't look gross at all. I can scroll through pics of lotus seed pods all day.

What’s weird is the images in the article freaked me out. The Google search images did nothing for me. Maybe I was just primed / warned ?

It's the hands...it's all you get to see with duckduckgo. The hands are nasty...

I can put myself in the headspace of finding it creepy, but by default it just looks like stuff to me. Regular objects. In the case of honeycomb it can actually look beautiful, though.

I don’t get what the big deal is. Most of it was just some fake images of holes in hands and stuff? And the seed pod is scary for some reason?

Some might take that as an indication that you don't have trypophobia.

Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images.

Stay away!

> Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images.

Same! Why does body mutilation imagery like that rank so high for that search term? Ugh!

Fascinating. I'd never heard of trypophobia before reading this post this morning... right after which I walked into an art exhibit and saw this amazing painting by Alfredo Arreguín...

https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY

There is also a subreddit dedicated to that phobia, I don’t believe I have it but some of the pictures there definitely give me the willies.

Fair warning: The subreddit is focused on _triggering_ the phobia.

It takes a particular type of masochist to have tropophobic tendencies and being subscribed to that subreddit.

No more then when people get kicks from horror movies no?

Exposure therapy?

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