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