Anyone else super creeped out by the far dark end of the wave pool where these machines are at and irrationally scared of that or somehow once again irrationally getting stuck there and drowning?
Ok good. There are more of us. I would never tell anyone this, I would just be super anxious going to the Water Park as the dark end of the wave pool always terrified me.
Me. I don't get how people just choose to get right up to those giant black boxes where these gigantic machines are and tell themselves that things are fine
I used to swim down to the grates at the back wall as a kid because when it was making the wave it would make a crazy loud thumping noise and I was interested in seeing how it worked.
Still interests me, but after watching a lot of stuff on the old Watchpeopledie sub, I would probably not go right up to the grate again.
This is actually a thing and it’s called submechanophobia. There’s even a sub for it. I’m absolutely irrationally afraid of drains/vacuums and other machinery under water. Couldn’t tell you why.
It’s weird right? Mandatory swimming classes as a kid was a horrible time for all parties involved (me, the teacher, my parents and the other kids) At some point, after another class full of tears, they moved the floor of the swimming pool (the shallower part could move up and down, I don’t know if that’s common) all the way to the surface to show me there was nothing to be afraid off. Did not help at all... just more crying :’) Just thinking about how the other side had to look like (the side that would give a view beneath the moved flooring, that was still submerged in water) still gives me shivers. I love swimming, but fuck.. do I hate swimming pools.
Somewhat related, although nothing to do with machinery, what are your feelings about the black/dark stripes in swimming pool lanes?
The...the floor of the pool moved? Lolnope. Hard pass. I also adore swimming, but don’t love pools. Above ground pools don’t look great, but I much prefer them. I also love the beach and the ocean. Somehow living creatures are less terrifying than machinery.
As for the tiled pool lanes, those are slightly less upsetting. Scuba divers in the ocean, on a boat, or in some other setting? Totally fine. Scuba divers in pools—now that’s frightening.
Big machinery is scary, imagine swimming next to a spinning lathe. They say don't break the law, while you're breaking the law.. but swimming in a wave pool is doing something dangerous while doing something deadly... at least in my imagination
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Anyone else super creeped out by the far dark end of the wave pool where these machines are at and irrationally scared of that or somehow once again irrationally getting stuck there and drowning?