Trypophilia and Trypophobia: A Picture Thread? (Not exactly NSFW but some deeply disturbing images in here)

totally have the creepy crawlies again

The only organic example of this that doesn't really bother me are honeycombs. I'm fine with those but apparently they're really problematic for some people.

well that fear of bologna thing is because those speckles in your bologna are bone.

i mean what the fuck is that in that tree? asian longhorn beetles?

I don't think I want to know.

wow, I had no idea this was even a thing, and apparently not even a rare thing

can't wait for TamTam to post tbh

ಠ_ಠ

One of the weirdest things about it is that even though this is very much a thing for me, I can't not open this thread when I notice it's been updated.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3659286404_c3212b77a2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~osoono/ethnicdoughs/doughnut/donuts.jpg

really, really did not want to read about Parasitic Neurocysticercosis today tho

Yeah, I'm not even going to look that one up right now. Too itchy still.

again with the tapeworms

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LnLtk3_0E1Q/RzTH7Ppfa1I/AAAAAAAADGc/Eh9vvcg1FEc/s400/Sea%2Bof%2BHoles.jpg

i mean what the fuck is that in that tree? asian longhorn beetles?

Check out the filename!

no.

I'm guessing maggot debridement therapy would be a no go for y'all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy

note to stanm, acorns do not grow there

I know. Woodpeckers store their acorns there.

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/4179-10581

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/9/9f/Lotus_cat.jpg

XD both xp and not xp

woodpeckers is a wholesome and adorable solution to that quandary, and that cat is squeeeeee

resisting urge to post chase no face

ah, what the hell, happy holidays!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/chase_rolled.jpg

Oh jesus I forgot all about that cat with no face.

you can like him on facebook now

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!

im going to throw up.

Just been reading his blog, good news - he's still alive and doing well.

put that fucker out of his misery.

I'm sure he's perfectly adorable but there's no fucking way on earth this thing would sit on my lap

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mtxIjWA73qM/TN05cBv6olI/AAAAAAAAFi8/8RJXBgAJQ1M/s400/DSC_0290.JPG

there is no way that he would come anywhere near me unless he wanted to get punted.

:( STOP BEING MEAN TO CHASE

chase no face is an emissary of tolerance for disfigured ppl everywhere

good going, now you hate disfigured ppl

jesus christ, I have images off and have not clicked on any of these pics and my skin is STILL crawling

urgh

the entire concept of "lotus breast" in connection to this thread terrifies me

Oh yeah, that cat needs to not exist. Or I need to not be aware of it, one or the other.

i do not like disfigured animals!

something lovecraftian about this shit

cant tell whether it gives me the creepy crawlies cuz im actually creeped out or because alla u nancies make me think i should have em

the only truly horrendous thing here is the worm-brain

Yeah, lotus roots never bothered me before? But that bleeding fungus, I mean you'd have to be blind and DEAD not to at least grok why that has the appearance of being antithetical to human life and/or sanity.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Chase_No_Face_by_NitrusOxide.jpg

aaargh

I dunno, that nail polish fingers one is kinda creepy

worms-in-brain not bothering me for some reason, hey at least you don't have any pain receptors in your brain

The lack of pain recep is what DOESN'T TELL YOU that WYRMS ARE EATING YOUR BRANE which seems like rather a bigger problem.

oh well i mean duh the idea of holes in skin is gross, and a worm-eaten brain

ppl freaking out about holes in trees tho?

none of these freak me out at all tbh

Nah.

My first job when I was 17, I worked as a dishwasher. I was kind of a punk or something and I always wore heavy black boots. I didn’t stop to think that working in high-temperature steam environment should really change that.

Anyway, after about a month of working there, I developed all these little round holes in the skin on the bottom of my feet. I was pretty freaked out – I thought maybe it was leprosy or something. I had no fucking idea. My doctor said that my sweat was eroding the skin on my feet and maybe I should look into purchasing some better-ventilated footwear.

(couldn't find any pictures of this particular malady - sorry, Jesse!)

i have a weird horror-aversion to patterns of holes or openings in flesh (the back of the surinam toad, for instance), but in no other context do such things bother me. honeycombs, perforated tree trunks, lotus flowers - no problem. i see the potentially revolting alienness of those things, but it doesn't get me. honeycombed flesh, otoh, like those photoshopped lotus fingers, really freaks me out. seems to me that it's related to my fear of certain worms, of being maggot-riddled. remember a book of parasites that a grade school english teacher kept about that included horrid images of such things as parasitic peurocysticercosis, pages i could only handle by their edges lest my fingers touch anything unforgivable. i couldn't stop looking though.

there's something about beholding a wholly wormy thing, covered with tiny mouthlike openings from which blind white heads rhythmically emerge and then retract in wavelike patterns...

hate u

xp:

Although not truly trypophobia related, that reminds me of this one time I was riding my bike down a trail and came across this groundhog corpse with a huge chuck of flesh taken out of its back. The hole was writhing with maggots. I grabbed a couple sticks to move the body off the trail, but when I got close, the groundhog popped up and ran away!

i don't think i'm afraid of a bunch of holes as much as i am disgusted by the notion of something infesting your skin? that seems different. altho i haven't read the thread and probably won't be

^ I think that's why it's a not uncommon syndrome, people have been afraid of disease for ages, and that's one symptom. Like small pox, measles, etc.

yeah. i tried doing a little research into it but was surprised i couldn't find anybody saying what you said, which seems like the obvious explanation. on the other hand, i'm dissuaded from digging too deeply into it because the internet is filled with unpleasant things and i don't want to fill my head with them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGqhxE9SDLk