People Are Sharing Their Megalophobia Moments, And Here Are 50 Pics That Creeped Them Out (New Pics)
People can be afraid of many things, from darkness to spiders, to you name it. Some of these fears are totally irrational, others come from our childhoods and creep in well into our adult lives. One of such bizarre fears is megalophobia.
Think of large objects like huge cruise ships, animals, skyscrapers, underwater structures, and even statues. Now imagine how’d they look if they were bigger. If the thought of it makes your hair stand on your arm, you may also have some traits of megalophobia.
And this subreddit named r/Megalophobia puts a test on your fear of large objects because it offers one hell of a collection. “A place to post images of all things large, particularly ones that are "triggers" for those with megalophobia,” says their description and 430k devoted members are nodding their heads. Scroll down and upvote the most triggering images below!
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Statue Of Poseidon In Spain
I Don't Want To See This When I Go Hiking
This Art Installation
This is Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida. This sculpture, titled "Home" is not completely installed yet. I can't wait for the opening!
Namib Desert Meets Atlantic Ocean
Underwater Waterfall Near Ile Maurice
Frozen Waves In Antarctica
A Rare Optic Sight, The "Brocken Spectre," Which Occurs When A Person Stands At A Higher Altitude In The Mountains And Sees His Shadow Cast On A Cloud At A Lower Altitude
The Swedish Warship Vasa
The Sheer Size Of The Pacific
A Truly Astounding Image. A Street In Macau With The Grand Lisboa Casino Looming In The Background
Looks almost like a video game where you know that's where the final boss battle will be.
This Sinkhole In Guatemala City
A Mountain In Iceland
All The Vastness Of The Canadian Rockies As Seen From 8,000ft Above Kananaski Country
The Naga Cave In Thailand Looks Like A Giant Petrified Snake
Monster Of A Machine
Vintage Photo Of A Working Horse
That's a mighty Clydesdale, the greatest breed of horses. They live only about 15 years though, shorter than most other breeds.
Almost Looks Like If You Tripped You’d Roll Forever Into The Icy Horizon
Mirny, Russia, Diamond Mining Town
Helicopters or planes can't fly too close directly over it, bc of them getting sucked down into it, due to how it produces its own vortex!😳
Weta Workshop's Realistic Giants For The Dubai Expo
WOW! The intricate details in the texture of his skin!!! What a talented artist!!!!!
A British Scientist Descending Into An Antarctic Crevasse
Behold The Largest Animal To Ever Live
A School Of Fish
This May Be The Largest Turtle Ever Recorded On Camera
Show Me What You Got
Titanic vs. The Largest Modern Cruise Ships
Why the hell do people want to holiday on these monsters. Docking at small islands and polluting our oceans.
Ship Breaking. One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The World
It’s usually done in poorer countries such as India and parts of Africa, the job has literally no safety requirements or protection from falls or dismemberment. Bosses buy the ships on contract hiring as many labourers as possible to break down the ship as fast as possible to make profit off the scrap. Most common deaths are falls, getting crushed and asphyxiation from using cutting torches in closed spaces. Most workers get paid Pennies per hour. If the worker survive long enough as a ship breaker they often end up with terrible illnesses from toxic exposure to chemicals or materials.
Within The Waves
Colossal Underbelly Of An Iceberg
For some reason, I see a massive frog in the middle.. anyone else see that??? I mean the eye is.. kinda perfect! Right..??
Proposed 400-Foot Human-Shaped Electricity Pylons In Iceland
What You're Looking At Is The Largest Heart On Earth, The Heart From A Blue Whale !
An Average Blue Whale's Heart Is About 4 Feet Wide, And 5 Feet Tall. (1.2 M/1.5 M) The Heart Itself Weighs Over 400 Pounds! (182 Kg)
A Bridge That Also Served As A Prison. Ronda, Spain
Shelf Cloud In South Jersey At June 21 2017
World's Largest Log Cabin
The Fact That Elephant Seals Grow Up To 13 Feet And 4500 Pounds Blew Me Away
Esso Hibernia Tanker Under Construction UK 1970
Entrance To A Furniture Store
Because Why Not
Demolition Of Cockenzie Power Station, Scotland, 2015
St. Peters Basilica, People For Scale
Kitty Are You Okay
Felt Like A Cool Image
Giant Iceberg, Iceberg Alley Canada
One of the few "touristy" things that I did when I worked in Canada. Was well worth it.
The Captive Orca Tilikum Looking At Its Trainers
There Have Only Been 4 Human Deaths Caused By Orcas As Of 2019, And Tilikum Was Responsible For 3 Of Them
Earthquake In Kobe 1995
Enormous Sheet Of Ice Floating Away Unassumingly
Aerium In Berlin, Germany. Built In 1938. (Left Corner: People For Scale)
This One Does It For Me
View Near The Chongqing Megastructure
The Largest Hotel In The World, With A Staggering 10,000 Rooms Is Currently Under Construction In Saudi Arabia
Exactly. What's the point, beyond being able to say "We have the largest hotel in the entire world-- 10,000 rooms available." It's not like they'll ever have them all filled simultaneously.
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Do people not really know how Mecca works and why there’s a need for tens of thousands of hotel rooms all at once? r/nextfuckinglevel just shows a video taken today with over 500,000 people circling the great mosque. There’s a serious accommodation shortage there. Imagine if every Christian was required to go to Jerusalem at least once in their lives, many preferring to go as often as possible and many wanting to go on high holy days. You can bet there’d be hotels as nearly as big and a dedicated airport just for the pilgrimage.
This is definitely true but given the number of helipads and opulence on display, this seems more like it's being built as yet another playground for the wealthy in the desert.
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Built using indians and nepali and other workers in slave-like conditions. Do not travel to these places.
wouldn't make sense in any other country but with mecca, I could see how there may be a need for that much space. still pretty excessive though
Trump would love it. Not enough gold paint though.
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To those complaining, do y'all really not know about Haji and how MILLIONS trek to Saudi Arabia for it annually? This isn't the "waste" you think it is. You don't have to like it, but it's not being built just for show and to flex how much wealth they have.
There are more than 1 billion muslims in the world. Visitors to Mecca need a place to stay.
But I bet the poor won't be allowed to use these rooms. Look at the helipads. This is a rich man's hotel.
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I wonder how many people will be employed and how that'll affect the local economy?
Largely foreighn workers will be employed, locals are generally wealthier and have management jobs and the like, at the very least. If documentaries I've watched are correct.
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Call me crazy, but I don't really want to stay in a hotel with thousands of other people - especially if I were paying what is likely to be quite the handful of shekels for the privilege. I get this is a thing Muslims to travel to Mecca and have room to stay (if they can afford it - doesn't look cheap) but it would be my idea of a nightmare being anywhere with thousands of people. I want to stay in a tiny hotel in the middle of nowhere and enjoy silence
Who travels to Saudi? My sister-in-law lived there with her husband and we weren't allowed to go there because we weren't close enough blood relatives.
Not a waste at all. If you have enough knowledge then you should know that every year millions on pilgrim coming to saudi arabia so they need more than enough accomodation for the pilgrims
5 days each year. Makes 360 days of waste
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My guess would be human pride, like so many buildings past and present.
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A waste of trees? We need more trees! Or are you saying the building is a waste, in which case what about the other big buildings around the world, including in the US?
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Too much money in the wrong, undeserving hands. And btw it's an abomination.
I imagine there are six helipads, not four (four is just what we see on the picture)
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Just... Ugh. WHY do humans so NEED to "leave behind" such "proof" that their pathetic personal skins occupied this place for a blink of time?
Jealousy.... dumb stupidity that all you have. Only give the comment but have no basic knowlege. Poor Western people.
Wow. Look at all the helipads on the roof. Obviously another rich mans playground
I've never been but Dubai looks like an alternate version of Las Vegas. Probably hotter though.
Dubai is in UAE. This is in Saudi Arabia. But I agree with you that Dubai does resemble Vegas in that it is almost entirely made up of modern architecture and artificial lighting intended to draw the eye toward specific objects and it becomes overwhelming after less than one second.
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I wonder what you have to build to unlock this in SimCity/Skylines/Whatever.
It looks like a hotel out of the boardgame 'hotel'. Does anyone still remember?
Stupid backwards country, who regularly execute and torture their own citizens medieval style - bunch of superstitious savages who still mentally live in the dark ages, but try in desperation in building a facade of ostentatious material wealth, that sadly proves nothing. In fact it's neighbors, like the UAE are even worst - total disregard towards nature or anything related to long term sustainability. Remember, these people are under the second worst theocratic fascist religion in the world - completely deluded and have alot of oil. That's it.
Saudi Arabia. Everyone's favourite holiday destination* *said nobody ever
When you spend too much money in a cake and it turns out to be f*****g ugly.
...Literally has absolutely ZERO relevance, involving Trump.🙄 You do know that Saudi Arabia's main source of wealth is from the vastness of all the oil out there, right???? Along w all the princes! Make it make sense.
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I don't think I am being 'hateful'. I object to any project/ event/ item that is grossly commercial and wasteful. Wealth at the level this portrays is unnecessary. No one person can spend billions in their lifetime but that money could help countless others. Capitalism, commercialism, materialism - it's all gross, no matter where or by whom.
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Note: this post originally had 138 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I discoverd a new phobia of mine - no, not megalowhatsitsname but the fear of pictures without context. There were quite a lot in this list...
That waterfall is scary, and the kitty dunno what happened to it, hope it is safe in the end. If you know you are living that high, should have install a pigeon net, or get a cat enclosure geez!!
Something tells me the cat is fully aware of how to safely get back to wherever it wants. It just won the “find the highest spot to look down on humans with a smug sense of superiority” contest.
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ok, i've got a question for bored panda stuff: is it really that hard to check the truth of what you write?! it became very common you post misinformation! now "underwater waterfall", "frozen waves" - just google to check, you don't have to read seven scientific papers to find out if it is or isn't true...
It's because they just repost s**t from Reddit 90% of the time.
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I've had megalophobia, as well as claustrophobia, since I was two years old---68 years of both things now---and man, can it be a challenge if I'm stupid enough to go someplace where something huge is, and I'm not expecting it. The sheer size of something can trigger a panic attack that's strongly compounded by the desperate fear that I'm being trapped by that enormity....not fun to live with, not at all.
i must not have megalophobia, or only very specific triggers for it. i don't want to be anywhere near a whale, even a skeleton. the "approach" distance for planets scares me in movies (before you get into the atmosphere), and anything closer than our moon tends to bother me if i'm allowed to focus on it. i've had bad dreams where there were multiple planets or moons hanging very very close in the sky. but most of these images didn't do anything for me.
Some of "astonishing" images taken with tele zoom lens. That makes large objects on the background look really enormous and unrealistic compare to what they really are. or bringing horizon closer to the forefront Just optical effects.
I discoverd a new phobia of mine - no, not megalowhatsitsname but the fear of pictures without context. There were quite a lot in this list...
That waterfall is scary, and the kitty dunno what happened to it, hope it is safe in the end. If you know you are living that high, should have install a pigeon net, or get a cat enclosure geez!!
Something tells me the cat is fully aware of how to safely get back to wherever it wants. It just won the “find the highest spot to look down on humans with a smug sense of superiority” contest.
Load More Replies... ok, i've got a question for bored panda stuff: is it really that hard to check the truth of what you write?! it became very common you post misinformation! now "underwater waterfall", "frozen waves" - just google to check, you don't have to read seven scientific papers to find out if it is or isn't true...
It's because they just repost s**t from Reddit 90% of the time.
Load More Replies... I've had megalophobia, as well as claustrophobia, since I was two years old---68 years of both things now---and man, can it be a challenge if I'm stupid enough to go someplace where something huge is, and I'm not expecting it. The sheer size of something can trigger a panic attack that's strongly compounded by the desperate fear that I'm being trapped by that enormity....not fun to live with, not at all.
i must not have megalophobia, or only very specific triggers for it. i don't want to be anywhere near a whale, even a skeleton. the "approach" distance for planets scares me in movies (before you get into the atmosphere), and anything closer than our moon tends to bother me if i'm allowed to focus on it. i've had bad dreams where there were multiple planets or moons hanging very very close in the sky. but most of these images didn't do anything for me.
Some of "astonishing" images taken with tele zoom lens. That makes large objects on the background look really enormous and unrealistic compare to what they really are. or bringing horizon closer to the forefront Just optical effects.
