Is it normal that i'm scared of wind turbines?

I made an account just to reply to this,i dont know about the alien thing but heart was in my throat and i could breathe it was so scarry,i honestly thought i was the only one,i think its how something invisible moves them and its just scary

Absolutely crazy that this many folks too have fears of wind turbines. I was so hoping that I was not the only one. My level of fear does allow me to drive pass them, but I get the chills and kinda squinch down, sorta clinching my teeth until I get through them, lol.. my friend thought I was nutso, driving from Pheonix to LA, bout a good 30mins of turbine-infested territory that I complained abt the whole way!! I'd liken the feeling to the sensation I'd get if I was thinking we were under alien attack but wasn't 100% sure!

I have that phobia also... I get the whole Alien thing.. I drove to Chicago once and there were miles and miles of them... I almost wrecked my car and died.

I signed up for an account here just so I could respond. I am so glad that I am not the only person who is afraid of wind turbines. First of all, they are huge. Second, I have heard how they kill birds and that is terrifying. Third, I already freak out with the thought of one wind turbine but when I drove through Indiana two weeks ago and saw 300+ of them in one place, I nearly lost my mind. It was like a whole army of them ready to attack. I wanted to curl up in the fetal position but I couldn't since I was driving.

I'm terrified of these things, reminds me of plane propeller coming towards me, I immediately get anxiety when I see them. I just read up on them it turns out autistic children get a sensory overload with them and people who live near then have depression and issues sleeping with the low vibrations and tones they give off. I think we are just very sensitive to the energy/ vibrations which triggers the fear

They terrify me, I can't stand to even look at one in a picture. I get all panicky, my family thinks I am weird, it is almost like I feel they are evil.

I think everyone has their own fears. But wind turbines are actually pretty safe, though irritating at times. But not unusual to have a fear like that. I knew some one who was afraid of velcro.

Omg I can totally relate to the alien thing they just feel so foreign its uncomfortable. My fear extends to many large metal structures but windmills are the worst. Even when driving at night and all you can see is a bunch of red lights its just as terrifying if not worse.

THANK FUCKING GOD!!!!! I have been made fun of my entire life because they make me break down and cry. Seriously. They are straight from Hell. I think I saw a movie when I was a kid about people being trapped in a glass airport and through the glass all you see is wind turbines. I've never found the movie and maybe it doesn't exist but regardless, wind turbines are going to kill everyone.

yes. when you're close to them they can be a little scary.

I was driving through a MASSIVE field of them at night. moonless night pitch black. all you could see was hundreds of blinking red lights in unison. You wondered what the lights were, then you got up close, and against the dark sky it looked like massive, black blades slowly spinning with just the center of them eerily blinking red.

it was fucking terrifying.

Ever since I was young as I can remember I've always been afraid of these things. Like they have a bad omen.
They seem evil.
And those were my feelings about them as a young child, not knowing anything about how they really work.

Turbines.... ;( D; so scary!!! I hate it when youlook up on a hill and they are staring down at you like it will kill you!! Its soo huge and thry move an omg:(

I don't think being intimidated by turbines is weird or irrational at all. I don't associate them with alien lifeforms or anything, but they are GIGANTIC, and [unlike most gigantic things] they move. Anything that large could potentially be dangerous if it fell, or malfunctioned. They're like a disaster movie waiting to happen.

I attribute my fear to them to a post-apocolyptic nightmare I had a few years ago wherein the only thing still standing were wind turbines, but they were about twice as big and 2-bladed. *shudder*

I have the same phobia. I have generalized anxiety disorder, but I have 2 distinct phobias sure to send me into a panic attack: ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) and anemomenophobia. They're about to build a windfarm nearby. I live in the city, but my parents live a town over. To avoid the wind farm, I'm now going to have to take a longer, back route to get to their house. My mother and I drove through a windfarm in northern Illinois a few months ago at night, and they're somehow even more horrifying after dark.

I also have that fear. Not enough that I can't look at them or anything. But they freak me out and are interesting at the same time. It IS very alienlike to me. I can understand the oil derricks thing too. I feel kinda like both of them are like bad trippy, scary Pink Floyd video like. There should be weird people with gas masks and bombs and stuff. That is what i think about when I look at them. People do not understand this when I tell them, but yeah. That is why they freak me out.

I've been right up to some like literally touched them. They're intriguing but really scary at the same time. Anything huge and unusual has the same effect on me e.g reservoir overflows.

They scare me too. It makes sense though, I would never want to get too close to one. So I would say this is normal enough. I also find oil derricks kinda scary.

I find them intimidating too.

This is a big fear of mine…and I have no idea why and I don’t know what’s worse, when they move or when they don’t move …however both scare the crap outta me! Also I have come to the realization that the don’t even have to be upright or put together to freak me out. I seen a train with the blades being transported and I have never been more terrified. It just wasn’t right…I thought megalophobia at first but other things don’t scare me the way wind turbines do. I never knew there was a name for this fear and also that there are so many out there with the same fear…so yay I’m not crazy!! Haha or am I??

Wow I'm not alone! It gives me an uneasy, queasy, anxious feeling. I can't look at them.

I have the same exact thing! Last year I was driving from Indiana to Chicago to visit family, and they were _everywhere_ .
At night time, when we were driving back to Indiana, They were all blinking red in unison. The shape of there blades are just frightening. Ever since I was a child, I have always been frightened by a similar pattern to the wind mills blades. The pattern was just three small, spaced out dots. Two dots above, spaced out, and one dot below those two- in between them. The dots are all the same distance between one another. The pattern/shape has always reminded me of an aliens head, or the shape of a deer's head, a dead deer to be specific. This has been happening since before I even started elementary school. I remember people asking each other there fears in school, and when they asked me I would just draw that pattern. The shape is pretty much an upside down triangle.

I just made an account to tell you that it is very normal and that they terrify the hell out of me. I get anxiety everytime i see or think about wind turbines.

Like most here, i too created an account to reply. It is not normal obviously as most people i know loves to it. But im also a victim of that fear. I dont faint or scream but Sheldon i start to tremble, my heart beat rises, my eye starts twitch and i also hyperventilate, a little. What creeps me the most is the largness of the turbine and its moving and covering a enormous area. My heart and lungs keep pound near my neck every spin i sees.

Had to make an account to agree with everyone here. WT's give me the creeps, I catch a very evil vibe from them. It's their shape, their power... too frickin alien. Hate them because they kill a lot of birds too. Sometimes I visit wind turbines to understand why I get anxious, but still leave uneasy. Hate them.

I'm so scared of them too, it's super unsettling seeing one of those giant monstrosities... I mean, I know they're good for the earth but hell, I cannot deal with them

I'm not terrified of wind turbines, but they do really unsettle me. I went to California earlier this year, and while I was on my way back to the airport I had to go through a long stretch of nothing but wind turbines. My sister was there too--it was night time, and I was actually the first to realize what the blinking red lights on the horizon were. I don't know what it is about them, wind turbines just make me uncomfortable.

They have always given me a really unsettled feeling. There are a few things out there that suggest that it could be the low frequency noise which is thought to trigger the fight, flight, freeze response.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11736728/Wind-turbines-may-trigger-danger-response-in-brain.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077192/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/infrasound-linked-spooky-effects/

I hate them. And as a trucker I see more and more each day. My fear is that there always built near roads. What if one of those huge blades come off? Or they collapse? They could of designed them to not look as freaky.

I'm glad I finally looked this up because for the longest time I have been afraid of these huge, white wind turbines...it scares me just thinking about it. My family thinks I'm overreacting or being silly, but I am horrified of them! I will NOT pass through any field that has them and that's why I won't travel to Rockport TX. On my way there was the first time I saw them and I literally pissed myself, couldn't breath and panicked. They tell me get over my fear....I say heck no! I'll just stay away from those huge turbines!!

I know this post is old but wanted to add that I too have the phobia and very much only in a physical sense. Ideologically I like them and admire the hunt for renewable energy, but when I see them I feel like I am going to pass out or throw up or both. It is MUCH WORSE if they're moving, stationary is not so bad but still noticeable. I find it kind of fascinating as I really can't account for it!

Wind turbines are literally the most frightening things on the planet. I have an awful phobia of them, if I see even one blade my heart stops and I have difficulty breathing. I start hyperventilating and crying and then I throw up. One time I tried to throw up out of the window and I got it all over my sleeve. Wind turbines are the worst things ever, there has to be other wind energy options. I hate them so much and they scare every nerve of me.

Thank goodness I've found you all, I am the same !! I've always hated them and couldn't explain why but now they've gone and built on next to the motor way in my town and you can see it everywhere. Well tonight on my drive home from work the blades were turning and I had goosebumps

It's nice to know I'm not the only one. I don't like seeing them at even a great distance.

I thought I was the only one! It's torture because I live in the Midwest where they are everywhere. All my friends laugh at me when I cower in fear at the terrifying objects.

I have always had an extreme fear of these large white turbine windmills. I just made my account this evening for the same reason most of you did. My only other major fear is spiders. Those bastards are simply gross.

I find them....alien like...and just...almost as if the mind doesn't understand how something like that exists. Sort of like the War of the Worlds feel with Tom Cruise.

Wind turbines fascinate and scare me, as do ship propellers, huge machinery, and tall structures. Oddly enough, I actually love them,and managed to get within 20 feet of one.I have an extreme fear of heights, and just looking up at it made me almost fall down. Pictures of heights whether looking up or down in perspective, scare me too.

I made an account just to respond to this. I thought for sure I was the only person that had this fear, my friends laughed at me and said I was crazy. I was coming back from visiting a friend at a rehab in Altoona Pa. and the van I was in drove past a HUGE field of these monstrosities, it felt like I was going to die I was so terrified, I also had a dream I was in a field and they were in the field making a giant "swoosh" sound. Those things scare the buhjesus outta me. I am glad to know it is a medical term for it..now I know I am not crazy and am gonna tell my friends to look it up.I hate those huge metal monsters.

I made an account just to reply to this my house is by a sea of them I hyperventilate when I drive by them my BF took a pic of a guy hanging from the blade cleaning it I about lost it they remind me of some extraterrestrial Shit and the movie langoliers doesn't help ... :(

I agree. I have always had weird things scare me and this is one of them. When I see them, it is not like I freak out but I think deep into it like being near one would scare the s**t out of me and when I see them in the ocean I always have a terrible re-occurring vision of swimming next to one and being killed by it.... i don't know what it is though

OMG! I just drove from L.A. to Southern Ohio (basicly across the country), and I was completely terrified of them (turbines). I found myself blocking the view of them with my hands......just SCARRY LOOKING! My husband laughed hysterically at me, until I made him drive thru the panhandle of Texas, and all of Oklahoma.....so I could sleep and not have to see them. They look like if they ever fell, they would destroy a city, and cut everyone's heads off. I know.....quite dramatic, but I have a colorful imagination, and dammit, nothing that huge should spin in circles. The killer was......when we stated out from California, we saw HUGE trucks carrying the propellers on the highway.....I promise those things are a city block long......

Lol some people really have weird, irrational fears.

I have this fear myself and I too made an account just to write this. I completely understand what you guys and girls are saying and couldn't word it any differently myself. Their alien, they pop up in flat environments almost out of nowhere, I cannot look at one as I lose my breath instantly, even in a video, some of you say you drove through miles and miles of them, I could not do that, I would pass out. I had a holiday in norfolk a few weeks ago and seeing as the land is so flat they pop up along the coast everywhere. Its such a nice place but I will not go there again purely because of them. Its pure intimidation.

OMWTH! I Cant stand wind turbines! They freak the heck out of me :( its like its sending some super sonic brain wave *does dance* and it is telling me that it is going to kill me. And have you seeb how fast it spins??? AAG

i went to the lakes with my family and ive never had a problem with wind turbines before and as we were driving further out towards the fields the turbines were getting bigger and bigger, i ended up bursting into tears and having to cover my eyes. i dont know what the hell was wrong with me but i just panicked D:

I feel the same way . I live in illinos and go to south carolina AND oregon / washington and every time I freak out because of the size , shape , the way they move and the red light that blinks on them at night it makes me feel like they are aliens . and once on my way to oregon , I saw a truck that was over 3 53' footers long carrying one of those wing things and I had to hide under a blanket it scared me so much and when I drive next to them AHH. and when they go on for just miles and miles and miles . Its weird .

I think they're a waste of electricity. It's windy enough already, without driving those giant fans around to make even more!