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Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

I remember once playing hide and seek with cousins at my nans house in Whitecrook and hiding in the old fashioned walk in boiler/room/airing cupboard. Nobody could find me and when I eventually decided to show myself the door handle inside the cupboard broke off as I tried to open it and left me trapped in darkness for what seemed like an eternity (possibly 40 minutes lol).

 

Completely off topicâ€Ķ but my first experience of claustrophobia!

 

Cold Sweat
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

I remember once playing hide and seek with cousins at my nans house in Whitecrook and hiding in the old fashioned walk in boiler/room/airing cupboard. Nobody could find me and when I eventually decided to show myself the door handle inside the cupboard broke off as I tried to open it and left me trapped in darkness for what seemed like an eternity (possibly 40 minutes lol).

 

Completely off topicâ€Ķ but my first experience of claustrophobia!

 

 I would have been a jibbering wreck after 40 minutes.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

There's an incredibly long railway tunnel in the Hope Valley that I used to have to go through every week.  I'd normally hold my breath but it took about five minutes.   Longest five minutes of the journey.

I don't even like going through the Clyde tunnel and that only takes about a minute!

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

There's an incredibly long railway tunnel in the Hope Valley that I used to have to go through every week.  I'd normally hold my breath but it took about five minutes.   Longest five minutes of the journey.

I don't even like going through the Clyde tunnel and that only takes about a minute!

I know it's five minutes because I timed it... and I used to count it out in my head.... 'half way there... three quarters...' and I'd panic if they slowed down half way through!

Kaffs
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

There's an incredibly long railway tunnel in the Hope Valley that I used to have to go through every week.  I'd normally hold my breath but it took about five minutes.   Longest five minutes of the journey.

I don't even like going through the Clyde tunnel and that only takes about a minute!

I know it's five minutes because I timed it... and I used to count it out in my head.... 'half way there... three quarters...' and I'd panic if they slowed down half way through!

I can understand that.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

There's an incredibly long railway tunnel in the Hope Valley that I used to have to go through every week.  I'd normally hold my breath but it took about five minutes.   Longest five minutes of the journey.

I don't even like going through the Clyde tunnel and that only takes about a minute!

I know it's five minutes because I timed it... and I used to count it out in my head.... 'half way there... three quarters...' and I'd panic if they slowed down half way through!

I can understand that.

It's quite a common phobia i think - some suffer terribley.  The train into Waverley stopped inside the tunnel quite often - i didn't like it, but I could cope, but I remember one day there was a middle aged woman, clinging on to her daughter and sobbing hysterically and whimpering 'why have we stopped?  why have we stopped?' .  I felt so sorry for her.

Kaffs
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Kaffs:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:

I'm claustrophobic so I'm not keen on tunnels. 

There's an incredibly long railway tunnel in the Hope Valley that I used to have to go through every week.  I'd normally hold my breath but it took about five minutes.   Longest five minutes of the journey.

I don't even like going through the Clyde tunnel and that only takes about a minute!

I know it's five minutes because I timed it... and I used to count it out in my head.... 'half way there... three quarters...' and I'd panic if they slowed down half way through!

I can understand that.

It's quite a common phobia i think - some suffer terribley.  The train into Waverley stopped inside the tunnel quite often - i didn't like it, but I could cope, but I remember one day there was a middle aged woman, clinging on to her daughter and sobbing hysterically and whimpering 'why have we stopped?  why have we stopped?' .  I felt so sorry for her.

Poor woman. It's a horrible phobia - tunnels, lifts, MRI scanners are all a nightmare!

Yogi19

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