I have this phobia of things crawling into my ears. I've had it as long as I can remember. It started when I saw this tv show where a woman went to a doctor and said that she could hear a funny noise and the doctor looked in her ear and then pulled a live cockroach out. I never forgot it. Natuarally I hate earwigs as well. Once when my friend was sitting next to me, she got a long piece of grass and stuck it in my ears. I didnt see her do it, I just felt this horrible tickling feeling in my ear and felt nauseous. I jumped up, screamed, and almost cryed because of it. I wouldnt go near her again for the rest of the day. I always thought I'd get over it as I got older, but im 18 now, and I havent. It's gotten a whole lot worse since a little while ago I felt something bump into my face while in bed. I turned on the light and this giant bug was on my pillow. I killed it, but I couldnt sleep for like another 24 hours because I thought there might be more and they'd crawl into my ears. I'm just wondering if this has a name, or if anyone else has said they have it?
I've had this phobia for a long time. I think it first started when I saw an article in a newspaper. In the story a spider had crawled up a woman's ear and nested next to her eardrum. The spider was removed by a doctor. Before that I had never even considered the possibility of that happening. I had a lot of ear infections when I was a kid, and as a result I have holes in both my eardrums. It doesn't really affect my life that much, I just have to be careful not to let water get into my ear and my hearing is just slightly worse than average. After reading the article I became very scared and sensitive about my ears. A long time ago I saw two spiders crawling to a hole in my room, and I couldn't sleep that entire night. In theory if something did decide to crawl in my ear, there would be nothing stopping it. It could just crawl past my eardrums, and probably be next to impossible to remove. That thought still really freaks me out, although I've learned to live with it recently.
Two nights ago, as I lay sleeping, I felt something in my ear. My first reaction was to dig in my ear with a Q-tip, but I found nothing. I went back to bed and as I laid down, my ear felt like it had fluid in it (a very annoying feeling), so I ran back to the bathroom and grabbed a couple more Q-tips. Again, nothing there. I reached for the alcohol and as I bent over to pour alcohol into the lid, something slithered out of my ear and onto my shirt. I totally flipped out. I frantically swatted at my shirt until "IT" flew off onto the bathroom cabinet, where I squashed it. I thought it was a silverfish. As I began to look for information on silverfish (I wanted to see if they were poisonous), I realized "IT" was an earwig. I had never seen or heard of anything like this ever in my life. I am so totally freaked out to the point of being obsessed with what happened to me. That night I couldn't go back to sleep and last night after almost dying of exhaustion, I finally had a good night sleep, but only after stuffing my ears with cottonballs. Some people say facing your fears can help you overcome them. I say my fear has overcome me and I don't think I'll ever be able to get over it. I made my kids sleep with cottonballs in their ears, too. So my obsession is wigging them out as well.
I also have a phobia of things crawling into my ears. I have had this happen before but i allready had the fear and i really freaked out. Actually its anything to do with my ears. I cant even go to work without first cleaning all the phones it grosses me out to think of someone elses ear touching the phone and then touching my ear.
