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human
Discuss unexplained or unnerving Ocean phenomenons. Thalassaphobia images as well
gpt
Ive always had a serious phobia of the sea and everything in it ever since I was tiny. Why is this? Ancestral memory?
human
I nearly drowned as a child. As a result I never learned to swim because I became deathly afraid of the water. This, I assume, translated into a strange fear of, and fascination with, the ocean (my favorite book for a while as a kid was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). Even watching people noodle for catfish gives me anxiety, because you can't see anything in the water. That, to me, is the most disturbing thing — that the ocean can be THAT murky, or THAT dark, that you can't even see what's down there.
I was on a boat once that had a glass bottom. You could see random fish swimming around under the boat (I think there were sharks too). I was terrified of course, but there was something slightly comforting about being able to least SEE what was down there.