Trypophobia

Trypophobia is the fear of holes and asymmetrical clusters of small holes, often with things inside. It causes a creepy, itching, crawling feeling.

The reaction I got the class was curiosity. Most of the class had never heard of this phobia and had some questions about it. No one else in class really had this same kind of phobia, but some could relate to the feeling of anxiety that I described when I would look at these images. What I came to realize from this experiment was that the longer I looked at these images, it didn't affect me as much as they did initially.

If I had more time to prepare, I would have brought some of the objects from above into class to pass around to see if any of the class had any reaction to the objects they were holding.

What fear is and Possible reaction to project

There are a number of things that make me fearful. I'm afraid of bugs (spider in particular), sharp objects, and reckless driving.  As a young child, I could not deal with change very well. I did not like moving a lot as a child and if we were to go for drives to different towns I would cry because we were somewhere unfamiliar. To this day, when I'm experiencing a big change in my life, I go through major anxiety and sometimes depression.
 

For me, fear is this feeling of anxiety. Recently I had to get over a fear of confrontation. It felt good to finally be able to stand up for myself and say what I really needed to say for myself. But initially, I had to get over my fear of losing a friendship, get over my fear that I may say something that I may regret or that I may not mean. But in the end, it all worked out and I felt like I gained more respect from my friend and more respect for myself out of the whole ordeal. 

I think the reaction I'm going to get is confusion or at least some fascination. I know that if anything, I may be the only person uncomfortable with my experiment since this is a phobia of mine.

Stuffed Animal

So for this assignment I was thrown the Pink Panther... which I was not very excited about. He didn't really inspire me to do much of anything. For the past two weeks every time I walked by my bookshelf that he sat on I just thought to myself that he's one pathetic looking stuffed animal. Not very cute. Pink was never a color I found to be fun or inspiring. I finally picked him up after two weeks and just stared at him. The angle at which I was holding him reminded me of my dog, Dexter. He just had this pathetic look in his eyes that for a moment.. he actually seemed kind of cute. I didn't really have a moment of pure inspiration or a burst of creativity but I just thought of my dog and how the two just seemed similar to me. So pathetic and mopey that they seemed cute. The contrast being that the pink panther is well.. pink and not cuddly and the my dog is black and is actually quite cuddly. Not the most creative on this assignment but I didn't feel very inspired.