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

http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad317e/AD317E109.jpg

i mean, if the issue really were a crippling fear of weird natural patterns, i'd think you'd be far more horrified by something like this than any old garden-variety bug wad, or some guy with clothespins on his face.

i mean, most non-phobic people are grossed out by bugs, skin rot and wound patterns...

i mean

I understand what you're saying, but a lot of insects have repetitive patterns or clusters, which is part of trypophobia. Michael White posted that octopus, which contains no holes, but contains a repetitive pattern. If you go further up on this page, there are pictures of people with melted faces, a zombie being hit by a car and his crud splashing the windshield, and a cat with no face, which are not trypophobic. There's also a picture of Al Gore.

WmC: OK, I understand. So from now on, I'll refer to my big toe as my meh toe.

The clothespins on the guy's face would be considered a cluster.

Excellent. Successful use of irony is a requirement on the World Wide Web.

My post says "Saturday, June 4, 2011 1:01 AM. Where is this, China?

yes

anyway,

http://images.inmagine.com/img/aspireimages/sbs043/sbs043014.jpg

that bread is man-made material...totally safe

Nah, you can't manufacture flour and wheat, etc. At least not during our lifetimes.

pattern of holes inside bread are caused by these little guys:

http://www.azurebio.com/img/yeast1.jpg

also responsible for:

http://www.stdsandyou.com/yeastinfection/yeast-infection-of-the-mouth-candidiasis-oral-thrush.jpg

That reminds me, I need to start a preferment for a batch of bread tonight. Maybe I'll take a picture of it tomorrow morning and post it here. It'll give Mom the shivers'n'giggles.

How many human children do you have, buff?

No children, Jesse ... just my two kitties, Buffy and Maxie.

Your story of being a grandma is giving me trypophobia.

(credit for the basis for that joke to ?? in a thread I can't remember)

Amphipod crustacean eating bryozoa

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228285_116977915051844_100002189073886_145364_8217330_n.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9m90j6msFRg/TeCMt9w7Q8I/AAAAAAAAFTI/Y6r4aj1xbdM/s1600/IMG_3836.JPG

My boyfriend

http://bigmentaldisease.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dr_tongue_dotd_ta312mor.jpg

I keep nagging him to see a dentist, but he just ignores me. :(

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216933_113653535384282_100002189073886_123290_2396920_n.jpg

I don t like the holes in mail - its weird! Jesus will elp me

http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/183193-1/Tongue_mouth.gif

now that's a party trick

That looks like a penis coming out.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299#!/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&view=photos

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1942/189/105/1121515785/n1121515785_30251725_4447.jpg

Suriname toad teapot

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&ap=1#!/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&view=photos

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&ap=1#!/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&view=photos

grrrrr

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299#!/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&view=photos

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299#!/home.php?sk=group_3318322299&view=photos

if you're having trouble with links, you might wanna save to yr hard drive, then upload to photobucket or something. #helpfulcatishelpful

One of your grandkids should be able to help you.

i have the picture of me but how do i put it on here?

― bellhop boy (brodie)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/31703_1428566685098_1560758666_1025993_4377278_n.jpg

The website says I'm posting duplicates, but I'm not. That's one of the problems. The other one is it won't post, just that little box thingy.

Suriname toad teapot

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_3318322299#!/photo.php?fbid=1516103194721&set=o.3318322299&type=1&theater

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/76965_1516103194721_1598727610_31336092_124656_n.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/199466_104732459609723_100002189073886_45979_5847127_n.jpg

Lotus teeth
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/207565_109841795765456_100002189073886_95171_789738_n.jpg

Knitted car
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/199836_108630392553263_100002189073886_85160_1754363_n.jpg

Infected hair follicles
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/59912_440211700761_530705761_5042947_2965685_n.jpg

knitted car reminds me of an whimsical bent wire car i saw at a paris auto show as a kid. its weblike complexity fascinated me but i also found it subtly disturbing. wish i could find a picture...

a few years later, when i was 7 or so, i had a terrible fever during which i hallucinated not only pulsating black holes that would open in the floor to swallow people, but that everything around me had turned into these insanely complex constructions of translucent webbing, fractal things in which every intersection unspun to reveal a thousand more. here that sense of "subtly disturbing" intricacy was blown open into screaming terror, as the incomprehensibility of this new world seemed both wrathful and profoundly evil to me. probably as close as i've ever come to being truly insane (debatable, of course), and my only real brush with something like trypophobia.

the holes part was a lot like (and perhaps influenced by?) this:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_LnLtk3_0E1Q/RzTH7Ppfa1I/AAAAAAAADGc/Eh9vvcg1FEc/s400/Sea+of+Holes.jpg

That depends on whether you were alive when the Yellow Submarine was made. (I'm pretty sure that is from that movie.)

Is this more like it?
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/38853_1392722030269_1598727610_31090646_7715604_n.jpg

Does this Act commercial bother anybody?
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2917/154/112/49009457/n49009457_31652607_3185454.jpg

yeah, buff, that painting is pretty close.

i was born the year before yellow sub came out, but i think we had the soundtrack album and/or a picture book. my mom was a huge beatles fan so i grew up w that stuff.