If just looking at honeycomb is enough to make your skin crawl, you might suffer from trypophobia. Trypophobia, or the fear of small holes, only came to the attention of scientists in 2013, but ...

Though the internet has its flaws, it’s excellent at bringing together like-minded people, whether they’re stanning one true pairing, trading cat GIFs, or planning protests. One group of individuals ...

Do sponges make you feel afraid, anxious or disgusted? How about honeycombs? Or strawberries? If so, you might have trypophobia − the fear of clusters of small holes. Though rare as far as phobias go, ...

Trypophobia refers to a fear of or aversion to clusters of small holes or repetitive patterns, for instance, in sponges, soap bubbles, and strawberries. It is not currently categorized as a phobia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a brief but unforgettable period in the late 2010s — specifically 2017-2018 — when the internet collectively decided it ...

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Does the lotus fruit image above make your skin crawl? Up to 15% of people (18% of females and 11% of males) become viscerally upset after looking at images of clustered holes or bumps, according to ...

You may have heard of various ‘phobias’ such as ornithophobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia and more, but trypophobia is probably the most disturbing, strange and unheard of them all. Read on to know ...

Picture a boat hull covered with barnacles, a dried lotus seed pod, milk bubbles on a latte, or a honeycomb. Images of these objects are harmless—unless you're one of the millions of people suffering ...

Trypophobia is the creepy phobia you've probably never heard of. It's been in the spotlight this month after people claimed to be distressed by a TV show's adverts for an apparently innocuous reason: ...

There was a brief but unforgettable period in the late 2010s — specifically 2017-2018 — when the internet collectively decided it had a phobia of holes. One BuzzFeed quiz, a few cursed lotus pod ...