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

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!

that is some fucking horror movie shit

i would die

kkvgz, thats called pitted keratolysis. i have it.

and that groundhog story, i would have emptied my bowels right there.

ok that groundhog thing has just taken us into a bad place

groundhog's doctor recommended maggot debridement therapy, don't see what the big deal is

I just went straight home. I gave the hell up on the day. Also, thanks Chris! that's exactly what that was!

http://www.danderm-pdv.is.kkh.dk/atlas/pics/8/8-50-1.jpg

Whoah that is really interesting. Wouldn't a good soak and pumice take care of that for you, too, though? Seems like a combo of "no ventilation" but also "can't be arsed to take care of self" issue, at least in normal non-tropical jungle circs that also do not involve perpetually flooded trenches of any kind.

"can't be arsed to take care of self"

what was at play here.

some years ago, i knew (by association) a guy who was terrified of acne, because his mother had told him that pimples were caused by and contained parasitic worms. he was pretty seriously crazy. he also thought phone poles were radioactive due to secret chemicals used in creosote manufacturing.

Apparently they're carcinogenic!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote#Coal_tar_creosote

My mother thought that ringworm was an actual WORM, and not a fungus or whatever it actually is. So when she got on her breastbone from hugging some kid in her elementary class who had it on his or her head, she was practically ready to vomit and/or scratch her skin off in panic and grossness until I thought to look it up. Poor Momz.

I thought it was a worm too when I was younger.

fyi, a skin fungus is not any less gross than a parasitic worm

It seems less invasive, to me. But obv not to everyone.

and that pitted foot fungus stinks like a mother fucker. I have to use frickin deodorant on my rotten feet.

doesn't help that i wear docs, and giant boots all day, every day.

"pitted foot fungus"

;_;

only get it in the winter time though.

http://pidge2571.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/face-melt.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D268

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iCDag7rZLqw/ScmcL5L8III/AAAAAAAAAjc/_SmsaztOFeY/s400/FaceMelt.jpg

interesting tidbit from some medical report on it:

Tunnel-like spaces were built inside the horny layer, where the bacteria exhibited a hairy surface.

talking about my cock i see.

omg at everything about and/or in this thread

this thread should be destroyed for the sake of humanity/my sanity.

nuke it from space imo

fukk u god

we're all gods flowers, even if we have no face or worms in brain

and you call yourself a doctor

we're all god's lotusflow3rs

seeing gross shit in person is waaaaay less gross than jpgs on an internet imo

^^^ true

Por ejemplo, I've seen ladies literally pour blood from very personal areas in the confines of a doctor's office and that's nothing compared to looking at the shit in this thread for me.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/3403915208_95a967b148.jpg

i am not okay with this and the disgusting creatures thread being at the top of new answers today

(and this post isn't going to help but JUST SAYIN)

some good gross things in here.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/548890-the-grossest-pictures-in-sports

http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/chinese-cheese-grater-slide.jpg

OK Curt I don't care how fake that is it's completely horrible. That is a prime example of this at its worst for me. I'm going to puke.

i can feel myself sliding over that.....blech.

srsly curt

http://www.toplessrobot.com/toht%20face%20melting.jpg

http://corporateswine.net/images/exxon_grin.jpg

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/07/504x_streettrash_io9.flv.jpg

http://www.distantcreations.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pizza-the-hutt.jpg

http://photoshopcontest.com/images/fullsize/74484341d094492a7da9d0404c8fa39ad40ab284110052.jpg

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/59abc778d2be574f01ce1fad55e187556227e6c7_m.gif

What the true to life metaphorical equivalent to Tryophobia? Why do people have this fear besides the fact that the finger hole worms/eyes look nasty?

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/zjuphyxN/BwnSJQ/Zoster%20Trunk%202.jpg

Would Pop

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1195.snc4/154732_1521091999438_1598727610_31345172_5510439_n.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/sonnenblumenbrot-sunflower-seed-bread-crumb.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/2983983344_a0aa84909b_o.jpg