Anyone scared of heights?

[crank39]

Is anybody here scared of heights, like proper heights not 1st floor window stuff.

What feeling do you get if you see a picture of something thats high or maybe watch a video or doesn't that affect you. I get like a tingling in my groin area and down my legs, just wondered if it was a standard feeling or if we all felt it differently?

 

[joinerjohn]

I used to go rock climbing when I was a lot younger, so heights don't really bother me that much. One time I was leading a climb up in the Lake District (at Dungeon Ghyll) and was about 100ft up. I'd just put a belay point on when my fingers started to slip on the rock face. I actually slid down about 4 or 5 ft onto a ledge that was about a foot wide. I could hardly stand on my feet for the shaking though. Took me about 10 mins to regain my composure before starting to climb again.
Strangely enough, the thing I hate watching in films is anyone getting cut with a knife. The famous scene in Play Misty for Me, where Clint Eastwood's fighting with the woman stalking him and he grabs the blade of the knife, then she pulls it through his hand, makes me absolutely cringe.
In fact my fingers are tingling now just thinking about it.

 

[crank39]

John, i just got the exact same feeling again in my groin when i read that last bit!

 

[crank39]

What happens when you watch this clip?.......

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/St...aling_1,768ft_Tower_Becomes_Internet_Hit#none

 

[ColJack]

I'm not scared of heights, I'm scared of falling...
As long as I know that I can't fall I'm fine..

However, while playing FPS games on the computer, my stomach does sometimes lurch when my player falls a long way off something..

 

[imamartian]

I'm not scared of heights, I'm scared of falling...
As long as I know that I can't fall I'm fine..

However, while playing FPS games on the computer, my stomach does sometimes lurch when my player falls a long way off something..

with respect colJ.. that's rubbish... the whole point of a roller coaster is to make you think you're vulnerable, yet we all know that no harm will come....

So can you climb a ladder up to your gutter? and at whcih point do you feel you're not going to fall? yeah, never... therefore you're scared of heights.... it's a natural feeling coljack!

 

[ColJack]

if I'm stood on the top floor of a building looking out then I'm fine, if I'm stood on a cliftop near the edge then I'm not fine..
If I'm in an airplane looking out of a window I'm fine no matter how high we are, but if I'm on a ladder doing the gutters I'm not so fine
If I climb a ladder to reach a platform such as on top of a flat roof, stepping off and onto the ladder scares me but once I'm on the roof I'm not so bad..
If I'm on a lifter ( sciscor or otherwise ) I'm a bit shakey at first until I'm sure I won't fall off or it won't tip over...
If you take away the posibility of falling then heights don't scare me..

 

[imamartian]

if I'm stood on the top floor of a building looking out then I'm fine, if I'm stood on a cliftop near the edge then I'm not fine..
If I'm in an airplane looking out of a window I'm fine no matter how high we are, but if I'm on a ladder doing the gutters I'm not so fine
If I climb a ladder to reach a platform such as on top of a flat roof, stepping off and onto the ladder scares me but once I'm on the roof I'm not so bad..
If I'm on a lifter ( sciscor or otherwise ) I'm a bit shakey at first until I'm sure I won't fall off or it won't tip over...
If you take away the posibility of falling then heights don't scare me..

but if I'm on a ladder doing the gutters I'm not so fine

then you're scared of heights!!!

if you look at the big picture.... on Earth, you don't have a height, just a position relativ to the Sun....

but on Earth, it's about your perception of how much it would hurt if you fell from your current posistion the nect obvious platform... who knows

 

[ColJack]

but if I'm on a ladder doing the gutters I'm not so fine

then you're scared of heights!!!

no, once again you choose to decide what I define things as..
Having had a ladder slip down a wall and fall flat while I was at the top of it, I don't trust ladders etc to:- a) support my weight, b) remain in position without slipping... so it's a fear of a repeat performance
same thing with lifters.. thee boom ones I don't trust to not tip over on full extension and the others I don't trust myself until I get my "sea legs" as they tend to rock quite a bit which makes me a little unsteady on my feet until I get used to it..

but on Earth, it's about your perception of how much it would hurt if you fell from your current posistion to the next obvious platform... who knows

erm... isn't that what I said, I'm not scared of heights, I'm scared of falling? that's exactly what you say in th quote above...

 

[RedHerring2]

You don't need to worry about falling, it's not the falling that hurts. It's the sudden stop at the bottom!

 

[Norcon]

Boom lifters can be scary especially when you move off from the side of a building into open space.
The machine can also look incredibly small when you're at the top.

Always enjoy getting some smart ass apprentice into one, loaded up with tools and equipment and then hurriedly getting up the building by the stairs to give it a good shove (and watch it sway) when he reaches the fourth or fifth floor and see him go white.

 

[masona]

I don't have any problem with height as long there's handrail surrounding or I'm wearing an harness. Used to work in refinery and I've been up inside 340' tower then out onto the balcony during the shutdown peroid, was a bit scary when is swinging at the top but was okay, couldn't wait to get down though

 

[ladylola]

Some heights can be unnerving but generally I'm ok with them. I've been up high scaffolds and have worked from a basket dangling from a crane and have even been called upon to go down on a rope on a mill over a river in manchester .
Strangely enough, and a few other people have said the same to me, hights can be very enticing in a morbid sort of way, they almost sort of draw you to jump.
Years ago I was told a story by a couple of guys I worked with-
They were working on a tall office block that was fitted with a cradle type of affair for window cleaning and the like. Well, the foreman and a couple of others went into the cradle leaving the two guys cleaning up on the roof. Andy ,the one guy, shouted down that they had tidied up and moved the large pile of concrete blocks to one side and what should they do now. These blocks were of course the counter balance for the cradle and Andy and mate hadn't actually touched them but those in the cradle spent a nervy time whilist the blocks were "replaced"

 

[wreckedit]

Years ago I was told a story by a couple of guys I worked with-
They were working on a tall office block that was fitted with a cradle type of affair for window cleaning and the like. Well, the foreman and a couple of others went into the cradle leaving the two guys cleaning up on the roof. Andy ,the one guy, shouted down that they had tidied up and moved the large pile of concrete blocks to one side and what should they do now. These blocks were of course the counter balance for the cradle and Andy and mate hadn't actually touched them but those in the cradle spent a nervy time whilst the blocks were "replaced"

I reckon the lads on top were pulling the others leg...........and that really was a tall story.

 

[Nige F]

I used to go rock climbing when I was a lot younger, so heights don't really bother me that much. One time I was leading a climb up in the Lake District (at Dungeon Ghyll) wink:

I can just about make it up Herons Ghyll in Sussex - look @ google maps