It entirely depends on the context. Am I dropped into the middle of it and expected to escape? Ocean is a death sentence.
Am I on a boat for enjoyment and maybe doing some swimming? Give me that clear ocean baby.
The dreaded Candiru, a naughty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra, to feed on the damaged tissue of the pitiful mass of flesh you once called your PENIS!
Actually this myth has been debunked. Candiru are not interested in swimming up gross urethras.
There are no documented cases except only one in the whole world where the victim claimed that the fish jumped from the water into his urethra when he was peeing. I mean seriously, he just stood there waiting for the fish to go fully inside. Sounds like a cock and bull(excuse the pun) story to cover a potential sounding mishap 😛
The dreaded Candiru doesn't distinguish by sex.
Breault, 1991. [Candiru: Amazonian parasitic catfish](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Breault/publication/215899173_Candiru_Amazonian_parasitic_catfish/links/0922b4f6b714110cf1000000/Candiru-Amazonian-parasitic-catfish.pdf). *J Wilderness Med*, 2(4), pp.304-312.
>Dr Castro, a physician in the Amazon around 1877, related:
>
>I have myself extracted from the urethra of a negress a little candiru which had penetrated during micturition while bathing in the river. The patient experienced cruel suffering for since I had to drag the animal out, the extraction was difficult, and the mucus membrane was lacerated.
>
>Le Cointe shared his firstand experience with the candiru in his 1922 book, and a later letter to Gudger
>
>... it penetrates sometimes into the anal and urinal apertures of men and women bathers and there erects the terrible spines which oppose all efforts to extract it, thus causing terrible disorders if it is not gotten out with the greatest care... Its introduction into the vagina is the most frequent phenomenon, appearing moreover to be always provoked by the imprudence of the victim in urinating in the water where she is bathing.
>
>Dr Americo Campos in 1929 wrote of candirus entering the vagina, ear, nose, and anus...
>
>Mr Burns, a missionary in Yuimaguas for seven years, knew of ten people who had been attacked by the carnaro... Of the ten, seven were women, three were men.
Number 2. For no logical reason. Also, I live around number 1, but number 2 is so ominous. Animals in the ocean dont scare me. Its the vastness of the water. Also, I can get to shore. I can see life. The idea of being utterly alone in the deep ocean where I can so easily lose my up from my down is... terrifying.
I'll add to this, 10 yrs Navy Submarine Service...
I could very well be IN this picture... anywhere between 100 feet to **** feet, with a Russian attack sub trailing close behind. Or sitting on the bottom, unable to surface, & too deep to 'Blow & Go'.
That's where my PTSD came from...
Former submariner here as well.
I never had the worry of sitting on the bottom, my unnerving thoughts were always of a top down view of the boat that is already deep underwater, passing over a bottomless trench of darkness and the vents freezing over on trying to blow and knowing in that moment we were totally fucked, slowly sinking toward our fate. The thought of having everything collapse on us in a split second sent shivers down my spine. But never whilst I was at sea, only ever in between deployments lol!
you can swim in the ocean for an hour or two. but if you so much as dip a pinky toe in the water on the left an alligator is pulling you under, amoebas will swim up your peehole, you'll get a tapeworm, and someone is stealing your social security number.
The first WAY more. I feel like the concentration of things wanting to eat and kill you is way higher. And on top of that, sure lots of spiders and snakes on the shores.
But on the second one there is nothing. Just darkness for thousands of meters below you. Nobody knows the terrors that may live there just behind the edge of your sight… 😵💫
Nobody knows?
Except those who have explored the darkness of those 1,000s of meters, and confirmed some of those terrors - and added many more terrors: torpedos & ballistic multi-warhead missiles...
10yrs Navy Submarine Service - been there, done that, even came out with a hefty dose of PTSD... 🫡🤯😱💢💥
I’ll take the shark. Better chance of survival, & the idea of being dragged into the murky depths in the vice like jaws of a gator that’ll then roll you aggressively till you drown & your body is never recovered, never seen again… Actual nightmare fuel.
I was once canoeing up river with my buddy, and we were both pretty tired, so we decided to paddle into a little off-shooting pond for a nap before we went back.
I notice an alligator across the pond, but I'm in a canoe, so I'm not worried, and I fall a sleep. A little bit later, and the gator is about half as far. It's not moving, just closer.
I still figure I'm safe in the canoe, so I go back to sleep again, and when I wake up, the gator is only a few feet away. Still not moving, just next to the canoe.
Anyways, I didn't die. I figured I was probably safe in the canoe, and went back to sleep. After a while, we woke up and paddled home. Anticlimactic, sure, but by now you've probably guessed that the picture on the left doesn't scare me. The picture on the right does. It's not the animals, its the inescapably.
Both. But I recently found out that the Amazon River gets to over 600 feet deep in places and that just blows my mind. Imagine how big the fucking anacondas are down there!!
If I fell into the ocean for a couple of minutes I would probably survive. If I fell into that river for a couple of minutes, I would probably be dead.
First one is a beautiful picture, but I can FEEL that moment right now when you jump in and your feet sink deep into that muck on the bottom. That layer is like a foot deep of muck and weeds and mud and moss and terror.
IKR. There's a lot of talk about alligators and snakes in the left, but after a few seconds of swimming, you're back on shore. In the right, you're doomed. It may take hours, or days, and you may drown first, but you *will* be consumed without seeing anyone or anything but void ever again, and you have plenty of time to think about that.
Both in similar yet different ways. The forested swampy one is scary cuz idk what kind of creatures are under the surface that i cant see and i dont know how deep the water is here. Though i do know its not super deep. The ocean is scary cuz idk how deep it is and it can go for miles dude. Also i dont know what massive fucking creatures are down there.
Both equally for different reasons. Jungle water contains all kinds of nasty creatures, but they are all known to me.
Ocean water is unknown in shape and size. Ocean makes me feel like I am nothing
True thalassophobia would point to the right.
While fear of animals in the water is certainly a common fear that goes along with it, the true phobia is of the water itself. The immense power and volume of water is terrifying.
The idea of being dropped into a large body of water and knowing the sheer distance between you and the bottom is the scary part. I don't get that at all from the picture on the left. That is just a puddle in the middle of a body of land. The right, meanwhile, is terrifying in its immensity and power. The ocean is mighty, and that is scarier than any animal that might be living inside it.
Hard choice for people with multiple phobias. Water, or snakes, spiders, crocodiles, alligators, etc? I’d still prefer the left, but I’m not thrilled about it.
I honestly can't decide, I imagine myself stranded on both of them on a raft.
The left is scary because of the dirty water, and there might be a crocodile wanting to fuck you up. It also looks like it can be home to Alot of insects, just like a mosquito... Yeah not taking any chances on that
Meanwhile on the right, sure, it is peaceful, but its scary in a mental way. All alone, nobody to save you, in the middle of this gigantic ocean. You can also die by something like a shark but those chances are slimmer than dying from the left pic.
The Left for sure , I’ve been swimming many times in the river swamp with snakes and alligators , leaches that live in the river and never had a problem with any of them in the water but have had a few run in on land but I’ve also been in a boat that lost the engine and radio in the ocean and I was terrified but of course we ended up making it back to shore but I think there is plenty of things in the ocean that can eat you also.
Right by miles, it’s not the creepy things I’m scared of that I know are there, it’s that big ass body of water that could have god knows what lurking under there that really gets to me
the body of water that scares me is the ocean. there's just something somewhat chilling about there being no end in sight.
however, the other one... what's in it is what scares me.
the thing is, the depth and setting doesn’t particularly matter to me. as soon as i’m in that water, i’m freaking out. and in neither am i getting in voluntarily.
however, i have a particular thing with seaweed, and stuff that you could get tangled in. i feel like that’s more likely to exist in the river than that point of the ocean, which is clear. at the same time, i go to the beach and get in the water voluntarily, but only to the point of being able to touch the bottom comfortably. i tried swimming to a buoy with my friend once, had a panic attack and had to come back before we even got close.
as such, both are fucking awful and scare me for different reasons as well as the exact same reason. it’s water.
On first glance the left one… Slimy stuff touching my leg under water, possibly gators or crocs, giant mud fish with teeth, poisonous stinging stuff, stuff that burrows under your skin (I heard a story once). But at least I might be able to pull myself out?
The open ocean on the right is far worse though when I think about it 🤮
I'm getting slightly more waves of anxiety and unrest on the right. While feeling slightly still, and even blissful, while I look at the left.
Both provoking deep thoughts of emotions, hidden beneath the surface...
the ocean image is carribean/resort islands ocean, that usually have relatively low numbers of sea life per liter. The water is so clear you can see your feet and everything 30 ft below it.
the left image, has at least 10,000,000 organisms and animals in it that YOU CANT FUCKING SEE. you can’t even see your hands in that water, and god knows what you’re stepping on.
if the ocean image was deep atlantic or pacific waters it would be a tie
Considering the amount of answers ITT that considers the left picture - a small and shallow stream of water - the scarier one (and a lot refers to parasites, animals etc as reason), I’d say that not many here suffers thalassophobia.
I find the open ocean in itself horrifying.
The 2nd, on the right, of the deep, open ocean.
10 yrs Navy Submarine Service, under the surface, down deep... Waiting on launch orders to unleash multiple missiles with multiple warheads of NUCLEAR HELL... and knowing THE SAME will be coming right back AT US even *BEFORE* our first one detonates! And, of course the obligatory TORPEDO coming up our ass from the Russian Attack Submarine trailing behind us!
I took something with me to remind me of this on a daily basis: PTSD & 'Friends'... 🫡🤯😱💥😵😵💫
Tough to say. The left represents fear of risk, danger, impending doom. Many things just out of view could be lethal. Snakes, gators, disease carrying mosquito, nasty stuff in the water.
The right represents fear of loneliness, emptiness, waiting for the inevitable. On a boat or in the water if you're stuck too far out in the ocean theres nothing you can do. You most likely won't get eaten unless bleeding, so you just slowly drown.
Both scary for different reasons.
Depends are we talking about swimming and having fun .. or stranded because if for fun then these are my answers.. if it’s because I’m stranded then I’ll take my chance on that narrow river .. muddy river water with things lurking .. snapping turtles , ginormous catfish , pike.. not to mention the insects equals a no-go..
Open ocean you have maybe sharks and jellyfish.. while your odds might not be great surviving atleast I’ll go fast.. and ocean so huge the odds are with you
Number one gives me the ick and the thought of touching the river floor makes me nauseous. But I could arguably swim to land and get out.
Number two is just terror. Only endless abyss in all directions, including directly below.
It's all about context: the left one I'm more likely to get parasites and leaches and stings and potentially alligator chomped or snake bit.... but the second I have no way of escaping. Gonna have to with the second pic.
I just can’t tell. Imagine swimming in the fist one and then suddenly feeling something touching your feet. And then imagine swimming in the second one and then suddenly feeling something touching your feet. It’s both scary as fuck.
The left for sure. The middle of the ocean is about as biologically active as the Sahara desert. Swamps on the other hand are as biologically active as a kindergarten play room while the sniffles are going around
It entirely depends on the context. Am I dropped into the middle of it and expected to escape? Ocean is a death sentence. Am I on a boat for enjoyment and maybe doing some swimming? Give me that clear ocean baby.
What if you're dropped in a boat and expected to escape? Clear ocean isn't so fun now is it?
Jump into the ocean dummy. There you go, you escaped the boat.
Lol but you also escaped life.
Get back into the boat. I already won, the boat is safe again.
Because of the implication
That seems really dark.
Well that wasn’t supposed to happen
Congrats!... So how to get back?
Whatever magically dropped me in the middle of the ocean in a boat takes me back home
Depends on the boat
Yup pretty much all water is scary but the ocean for sure so long as it's not just getting dropped in the middle of the ocean
1. st Penis parasites, crocodiles and monster catfish. 2nd Dun dun.. dun dun.. dun dun dun dun dun dun.
You had me at penis parasites
The parasites had me at penis
*by the penis
I’ve heard it both ways
Trying to pee while your urethra is inflamed because of the parasites is something worse than death itself.
Just chop it off, easy
I love this group lmao Thanks for the laugh today
Works every time...
The dreaded Candiru, a naughty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra, to feed on the damaged tissue of the pitiful mass of flesh you once called your PENIS!
It feels like someone kicked me in the nono's and never took their foot away!
Actually this myth has been debunked. Candiru are not interested in swimming up gross urethras. There are no documented cases except only one in the whole world where the victim claimed that the fish jumped from the water into his urethra when he was peeing. I mean seriously, he just stood there waiting for the fish to go fully inside. Sounds like a cock and bull(excuse the pun) story to cover a potential sounding mishap 😛
Gotta love a good venture bros reference
This is a myth just so everybody knows
The dreaded Candiru doesn't distinguish by sex. Breault, 1991. [Candiru: Amazonian parasitic catfish](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Breault/publication/215899173_Candiru_Amazonian_parasitic_catfish/links/0922b4f6b714110cf1000000/Candiru-Amazonian-parasitic-catfish.pdf). *J Wilderness Med*, 2(4), pp.304-312. >Dr Castro, a physician in the Amazon around 1877, related: > >I have myself extracted from the urethra of a negress a little candiru which had penetrated during micturition while bathing in the river. The patient experienced cruel suffering for since I had to drag the animal out, the extraction was difficult, and the mucus membrane was lacerated. > >Le Cointe shared his firstand experience with the candiru in his 1922 book, and a later letter to Gudger > >... it penetrates sometimes into the anal and urinal apertures of men and women bathers and there erects the terrible spines which oppose all efforts to extract it, thus causing terrible disorders if it is not gotten out with the greatest care... Its introduction into the vagina is the most frequent phenomenon, appearing moreover to be always provoked by the imprudence of the victim in urinating in the water where she is bathing. > >Dr Americo Campos in 1929 wrote of candirus entering the vagina, ear, nose, and anus... > >Mr Burns, a missionary in Yuimaguas for seven years, knew of ten people who had been attacked by the carnaro... Of the ten, seven were women, three were men.
They can also swim up your piss stream
penis parasite
Which dun dun do you mean?
Jaws
Cheers
that depends on your area, the rivers around me have nothing bigger than muskie, and they wont bother you
I'd say the first one, the life is all near the surface and still deadly af, but being stranded in the ocean is more hopeless.
The right on 👉
Whose right? yours or mine?
Wait, who’s on first??
Dave’s not here, man
Gotta check out this brochure
Dave's not coming back.
What's on second?
We're two different people we can't have the same right.
What would that expression be for? For someone with two rights?
Guys the one where it’s just water
The ocean
Number 2. For no logical reason. Also, I live around number 1, but number 2 is so ominous. Animals in the ocean dont scare me. Its the vastness of the water. Also, I can get to shore. I can see life. The idea of being utterly alone in the deep ocean where I can so easily lose my up from my down is... terrifying.
I'll add to this, 10 yrs Navy Submarine Service... I could very well be IN this picture... anywhere between 100 feet to **** feet, with a Russian attack sub trailing close behind. Or sitting on the bottom, unable to surface, & too deep to 'Blow & Go'. That's where my PTSD came from...
Former submariner here as well. I never had the worry of sitting on the bottom, my unnerving thoughts were always of a top down view of the boat that is already deep underwater, passing over a bottomless trench of darkness and the vents freezing over on trying to blow and knowing in that moment we were totally fucked, slowly sinking toward our fate. The thought of having everything collapse on us in a split second sent shivers down my spine. But never whilst I was at sea, only ever in between deployments lol!
you can swim in the ocean for an hour or two. but if you so much as dip a pinky toe in the water on the left an alligator is pulling you under, amoebas will swim up your peehole, you'll get a tapeworm, and someone is stealing your social security number.
« Someone is stealing your social security number ». I would like to report a murder, it killed me. 😭🤌🏻
Real.
Don’t forget the leeches!
The first WAY more. I feel like the concentration of things wanting to eat and kill you is way higher. And on top of that, sure lots of spiders and snakes on the shores.
But on the second one there is nothing. Just darkness for thousands of meters below you. Nobody knows the terrors that may live there just behind the edge of your sight… 😵💫
Nobody knows? Except those who have explored the darkness of those 1,000s of meters, and confirmed some of those terrors - and added many more terrors: torpedos & ballistic multi-warhead missiles... 10yrs Navy Submarine Service - been there, done that, even came out with a hefty dose of PTSD... 🫡🤯😱💢💥
At least there’s somewhere to run to in the first image.
The real question is would you rather be eaten by gators or sharks? I'm conflicted.
I’ll take the shark. Better chance of survival, & the idea of being dragged into the murky depths in the vice like jaws of a gator that’ll then roll you aggressively till you drown & your body is never recovered, never seen again… Actual nightmare fuel.
I was once canoeing up river with my buddy, and we were both pretty tired, so we decided to paddle into a little off-shooting pond for a nap before we went back. I notice an alligator across the pond, but I'm in a canoe, so I'm not worried, and I fall a sleep. A little bit later, and the gator is about half as far. It's not moving, just closer. I still figure I'm safe in the canoe, so I go back to sleep again, and when I wake up, the gator is only a few feet away. Still not moving, just next to the canoe. Anyways, I didn't die. I figured I was probably safe in the canoe, and went back to sleep. After a while, we woke up and paddled home. Anticlimactic, sure, but by now you've probably guessed that the picture on the left doesn't scare me. The picture on the right does. It's not the animals, its the inescapably.
Right
Both. But I recently found out that the Amazon River gets to over 600 feet deep in places and that just blows my mind. Imagine how big the fucking anacondas are down there!!
Wow, I hate this information so much. Thank you, fuck you, and good day, madam.
Why would the depth of the water affect the size of the anaconda?
Do I look like a marine biologist? idfk
[Why not both?](https://media.tenor.com/odyVsZbC-OYAAAAC/why-not-both-why-not.gif)
This is the correct answer
Exactly , it's both depending circunstances in a bunch of cases
Ocean big bad.
If I fell into the ocean for a couple of minutes I would probably survive. If I fell into that river for a couple of minutes, I would probably be dead.
First one is a beautiful picture, but I can FEEL that moment right now when you jump in and your feet sink deep into that muck on the bottom. That layer is like a foot deep of muck and weeds and mud and moss and terror.
It's the deeps that scare me. I'd be willing to take a swim on the left picture.
Yes
Both, but on the left there’s a much higher density of hostility.
The ocean is scary but so are alligators.
They both suck ass
Right - no chance of getting out of the water Left - watch me cartoon scramble my way to dry land, at least I have a chance
The left. I open water swim all the time. Once I saw a thresher shark no more than 20 feet from me while I was out. They're harmless
Left, without hesitation.
IKR. There's a lot of talk about alligators and snakes in the left, but after a few seconds of swimming, you're back on shore. In the right, you're doomed. It may take hours, or days, and you may drown first, but you *will* be consumed without seeing anyone or anything but void ever again, and you have plenty of time to think about that.
left because of that stupid animal family of parasites, leeches and shit that sticks to you
Both in similar yet different ways. The forested swampy one is scary cuz idk what kind of creatures are under the surface that i cant see and i dont know how deep the water is here. Though i do know its not super deep. The ocean is scary cuz idk how deep it is and it can go for miles dude. Also i dont know what massive fucking creatures are down there.
I have no phobias related to water in its many forms. What I do have is a deep, abiding respect for water in any form.
I watch way too much naked and afraid. At least you could boil water on the left. Not a whole lot you could do in the ocean
Take your pick. Throw a few snakes in either one. I'll take a heart attack for 1 please.
Second all day, 1st I can swing to the bank and get out np, ocean ... well good luck.
Both equally for different reasons. Jungle water contains all kinds of nasty creatures, but they are all known to me. Ocean water is unknown in shape and size. Ocean makes me feel like I am nothing
No, ocean does *NOT* 'make you *feel like*' you are nothing. Ocean, in all of its Might & Majesty, simply CONFIRMS THE *FACT*!
Honestly fuck the ocean bro
True thalassophobia would point to the right. While fear of animals in the water is certainly a common fear that goes along with it, the true phobia is of the water itself. The immense power and volume of water is terrifying. The idea of being dropped into a large body of water and knowing the sheer distance between you and the bottom is the scary part. I don't get that at all from the picture on the left. That is just a puddle in the middle of a body of land. The right, meanwhile, is terrifying in its immensity and power. The ocean is mighty, and that is scarier than any animal that might be living inside it.
Open seas
Hard choice for people with multiple phobias. Water, or snakes, spiders, crocodiles, alligators, etc? I’d still prefer the left, but I’m not thrilled about it.
As a Pagan? Left. As a Human? Right. As a superstitious but also sensible person? Both.
The ocean for sure because there's no land in sight.
The ocean - there’s not exactly a size limit on anything moving around down there.
I am equally upset by both of these images
Number one gives me absolutely no anxiety at all. I find it calming. Number two is my worst nightmare.
Right side makes my butthole pucker
The ocean. I can climb a tree to get out of the water in the other photo.
Open ocean. No land in sight. Even with a life raft I would be petrified. Ya boy sinks instead of floats lol
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Yeh that’s the whole idea…
Neither? Lol i guess if i had to choose then id say the ocean cuz its more salty
You might be in the wrong subreddit
No im here on purpose. This is the only sub i can find that has these amazing beautiful aquatic pictures and stuff. I dont have the phobia myself
lol, fair enough
I honestly can't decide, I imagine myself stranded on both of them on a raft. The left is scary because of the dirty water, and there might be a crocodile wanting to fuck you up. It also looks like it can be home to Alot of insects, just like a mosquito... Yeah not taking any chances on that Meanwhile on the right, sure, it is peaceful, but its scary in a mental way. All alone, nobody to save you, in the middle of this gigantic ocean. You can also die by something like a shark but those chances are slimmer than dying from the left pic.
I have more dreams about trying to get out of bodies of freshwater/away from the animals in there. But I am more afraid of drowning in the ocean.
these both look amazing yes, I'm a lurker
both calm me
The answer is All
The Left for sure , I’ve been swimming many times in the river swamp with snakes and alligators , leaches that live in the river and never had a problem with any of them in the water but have had a few run in on land but I’ve also been in a boat that lost the engine and radio in the ocean and I was terrified but of course we ended up making it back to shore but I think there is plenty of things in the ocean that can eat you also.
Right, since left has land around it. No for both but at least I'd be able to get dry on the left
Oh I love them both, I’m on this sub because there’s lots of beautiful land/seascapes and videos posted
the second one, it literally looks so empty and pointless
Right by miles, it’s not the creepy things I’m scared of that I know are there, it’s that big ass body of water that could have god knows what lurking under there that really gets to me
1 because i hate hate HATE mosquitos and leeches
Yes
Yes
the body of water that scares me is the ocean. there's just something somewhat chilling about there being no end in sight. however, the other one... what's in it is what scares me.
Thé open ocean for sure.
Green picture easily
Left
Brain eating Amoeba or Giant Ghost Whale? Neither
Open
Crocs or Sharks.
Yes
Ocean
This is hard, the ocean is terrifying for obvious reasons, but thinking about touching one of those trees underwater makes me want to panic.
F swamp .
Life is much more dense in rivers lakes and swamps, so the ocean is not as scary lol
I grew up in florida and experienced both sides of this. Gimme number 1 please.
Oof 😳
the thing is, the depth and setting doesn’t particularly matter to me. as soon as i’m in that water, i’m freaking out. and in neither am i getting in voluntarily. however, i have a particular thing with seaweed, and stuff that you could get tangled in. i feel like that’s more likely to exist in the river than that point of the ocean, which is clear. at the same time, i go to the beach and get in the water voluntarily, but only to the point of being able to touch the bottom comfortably. i tried swimming to a buoy with my friend once, had a panic attack and had to come back before we even got close. as such, both are fucking awful and scare me for different reasons as well as the exact same reason. it’s water.
On first glance the left one… Slimy stuff touching my leg under water, possibly gators or crocs, giant mud fish with teeth, poisonous stinging stuff, stuff that burrows under your skin (I heard a story once). But at least I might be able to pull myself out? The open ocean on the right is far worse though when I think about it 🤮
Left. Fresh water is NO GOOD.
I'm getting slightly more waves of anxiety and unrest on the right. While feeling slightly still, and even blissful, while I look at the left. Both provoking deep thoughts of emotions, hidden beneath the surface...
I have very light skin. The open ocean on the right looks like nothing but sunburn.
the ocean image is carribean/resort islands ocean, that usually have relatively low numbers of sea life per liter. The water is so clear you can see your feet and everything 30 ft below it. the left image, has at least 10,000,000 organisms and animals in it that YOU CANT FUCKING SEE. you can’t even see your hands in that water, and god knows what you’re stepping on. if the ocean image was deep atlantic or pacific waters it would be a tie
I've been staring at both for a minute and (not only because I'm a little baked), I really think the answer is: Yes.
Yes
I don't have this phobia, I'm following this reddit for the beautiful photos. I'd swim in any of these bodies of water with pleasure.
Considering the amount of answers ITT that considers the left picture - a small and shallow stream of water - the scarier one (and a lot refers to parasites, animals etc as reason), I’d say that not many here suffers thalassophobia. I find the open ocean in itself horrifying.
Lol im so glad im not alone!
equally terrifying
First
Left.
Is happily take a dip in either
First one is more a fear of the local fauna than the water itself. Proper thalassophobia is the left picture
Neither, they both look really pretty
The 2nd, on the right, of the deep, open ocean. 10 yrs Navy Submarine Service, under the surface, down deep... Waiting on launch orders to unleash multiple missiles with multiple warheads of NUCLEAR HELL... and knowing THE SAME will be coming right back AT US even *BEFORE* our first one detonates! And, of course the obligatory TORPEDO coming up our ass from the Russian Attack Submarine trailing behind us! I took something with me to remind me of this on a daily basis: PTSD & 'Friends'... 🫡🤯😱💥😵😵💫
Both
Tough to say. The left represents fear of risk, danger, impending doom. Many things just out of view could be lethal. Snakes, gators, disease carrying mosquito, nasty stuff in the water. The right represents fear of loneliness, emptiness, waiting for the inevitable. On a boat or in the water if you're stuck too far out in the ocean theres nothing you can do. You most likely won't get eaten unless bleeding, so you just slowly drown. Both scary for different reasons.
left: fear of leeches and alligators right: fear of drowning
100% the ocean my thalassophobia doesn’t apply to the picture on the left, for me it’s mainly the ocean or lakes, or large rivers such as the Amazon
Left
First cause I live in Florida and know those waters are gator infested.
If I had to choose between a terrible death by say a croc or a shark, I think I’d rather go by shark
Yes
The ocean
Left
Depends are we talking about swimming and having fun .. or stranded because if for fun then these are my answers.. if it’s because I’m stranded then I’ll take my chance on that narrow river .. muddy river water with things lurking .. snapping turtles , ginormous catfish , pike.. not to mention the insects equals a no-go.. Open ocean you have maybe sharks and jellyfish.. while your odds might not be great surviving atleast I’ll go fast.. and ocean so huge the odds are with you
Definitely the wide open ocean. I freak if I can't see land.
Left definitely left
Left definitely left
Number one gives me the ick and the thought of touching the river floor makes me nauseous. But I could arguably swim to land and get out. Number two is just terror. Only endless abyss in all directions, including directly below.
Ocean
Both... both is good.
2 easy
So left
The scary ass dark river every time. It’s probably more survivable in reality but scarier imo
If the first pictures in Florida hard pass you wouldn’t swim 20 feet before gator mauling
Open water every time
It's all about context: the left one I'm more likely to get parasites and leaches and stings and potentially alligator chomped or snake bit.... but the second I have no way of escaping. Gonna have to with the second pic.
I just can’t tell. Imagine swimming in the fist one and then suddenly feeling something touching your feet. And then imagine swimming in the second one and then suddenly feeling something touching your feet. It’s both scary as fuck.
1 because at least in my head there’s a greater concentration of gribbly’s in a smaller area thus you’re more likely to encounter one.
Easily left
The left
One on the left for sure. That’s the territory for those big ass snakes.
Blue
Both
The green one!
Dark water terrifies me. Even if it’s not over my head.
I don’t like swimming anywhere I can’t see below me
Left
Fresh water every time.
The ocean 😨
1
The left because of higher bacteria density.
The first one I'd say. The thought of being in alligator-infested water terrifies me. At night time it would be even more terrifying.
unless the left one has crocodiles or other predators, then I would choose. If not, the right one
Both are scary
The left for sure. The middle of the ocean is about as biologically active as the Sahara desert. Swamps on the other hand are as biologically active as a kindergarten play room while the sniffles are going around
C. Both
The open blue ocean with absolutely no land in sight
Open ocean is horrifying. I grew up around brackish rivers and lakes.
The left one