Heights
 

Is it weird that i like flying (to the point of i'll look out the window plenty and watch the take off/landing) yet when i'm on the ground looking down from height i don't like it. I guess it's to do with feeling 'safe'.

Who else is like this?

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Used to rock climb, including free climbing, and never had a problem with heights. But if its a tall man-made structure I'm not keen.

Flying; flown loads of times, and the more I fly the less I like it.

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I don't like heights. It's strange cos when I was a nipper, one of my mates had loads of ropes in his dad's garage. We used to climb lots of trees and make rope bridges between them, which were all highly dubious. Most of the rope was frayed. I never fell or anything, but now if I was to climb a tree, I would brick it quite heavily.

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Hate heights, don't know why just one of those fears, be it in a tall building or on a plane where I know I'm safe, still makes my stomach turn. I have to sit in the aisle seat on planes.

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Im exactly the same Daddyjob, flew again over the Easter break and loved watching the world go tiny on take off but put me on a first floor scaffold and my knees do a cracking Elvis impression.
I've often wondered the same thing, ie "am I an odd ball?" but its seems you and I at least we're equally odd :)

Im fine when at crusing altitute as well, that is until its gets bumpy - I seriously hate turbulance. Managed to appear unphased during the period we had it on the way home but inside I were ****ting bricks, it just doesnt make sense for the plane not to disintergrate.

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strange question but have you ever passed out
i hate hieghts but can fly ,jump from a plane, absail not to mention being 6"8
i dont trust my own balance this is because when i was younger i had blackouts
could it be similar with yourself

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The only thing that bothers me about heights is ladders. I do not care a jot about standing on the edge of a cliff, looking hundreds of feet down to what would certainly kill me should I fall, but get me up a ladder 8ft off the ground and I feel about as safe as a flea in a Frontline factory!

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Flea in a Frontline factory??? Ok, so I am a little tense as having bloods taken later, but seriously....what part of my brain did I pull that line from???

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The bit we love :)

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I took to jumping out of planes to get me over my fear of heights, didn't work.

I have been up some very high power station stacks and hated it. Why I agreed to go up my second/third etc was always because there would have been someone of my crew on site that had never done it and the regular site crews knew I would in order to encourage the newbies.

I have a family friend who has just completed his apprenticeship as a steeple jack. Apparently something like 50% of the course applicants bottle it on their first couple of hundred foot climb

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No problem with heights when on a scaffold even if it's a bit (or very) wobbly as long as it looks about right.

No problem when at the top of a climbing wall as I have a harness on.

No problem in planes etc.

Only problem is if I stand at the edge of a drop where there is no edge protection and I'm not wearing a harness or anything (and if the worst came to the worst there would be nothing to stop / slow a fall).

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Am an ex glider pilot, had no problems with altitude, however I don't do ladders, balconies etc.... It's not an unusual thing, quite a few pilots are fine flying but don't do "heights".

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I worked on power station chimneys till I saw the carnage burst cement pumping pipes can do----------several black bricks on Longannet chimneys.

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This.

The height does not concern me in the slightest, just the danger of falling from a long way up. Although I loved skydiving, but again I think it was the 'safety' of having someone strapped to my back doing all the difficult bit.

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Same as you. Plane is no bother, but heights from buildings make me terrified.

Just looking at this image makes me scared

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rNastyFall.jpg

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btw that's the CN tower in Canada, which has a glass floor

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Another climber here, but hate ladders. Rock is stable and reliable making climbing fun.

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Glad to see i'm not the only one. Owenski, i agree with turbulence, i absolutley hate the feeling of negative g's. I'll take positive g's all the way, turning, take off, thrust but not bumpy turbulence or drops. I have to distract myself so i forget that feeling is going on!

A good video to watch for heights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw

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Well if that's the glass floor its rather clean wonder who's job that is. Hope they're are being paid well.

Same as you on heights plane flights is fine and actually id rather be at the window as the looking out the window is probably the most interesting thing about the flight.

But up on a building like the picture above and I'd be on my hands and knees slowly crawling backwards.

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after watching that video I'm even scared of heights to the point of watching someone else climb makes me feel very uneasy

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Oh good, I thought it was just me. And it's only free standing or leaning ladders too. I'm happier climbing a 20ft rope ladder than I am on our 8ft ladder trying to put Xmas lights up. I just never feel safe on it, even with someone holding the bottom. I'm fine with flying, I'm fine being up tall buildings on glass floors, I enjoyed parascending and rock climbing when I was younger, but I absolutely hate looking up from the ground at tall structures. If the sky is completely blue and cloudless, I'm not too bad, but if there is a single moving cloud anywhere near my field of view I feel instantly quite sick. Sort of reverse vertigo - it's really weird.