0 READINGRead the posts on phobias.0 RalphI don't know why, but I don't really like it when planes fly above me. It's silly. Iknow, but I always think they might fall on me - which of course they never do!MelanieI've always been really scared of travelling by plane, although I know it's a reallysafe way to travel. I'm lucky because Mum and Dad understand howl feel. But mygrandparents live hundreds of miles away, and because I refuse to fly, we always haveto travel by car or train, which takes a really long time. But they never complain.2 DanI think mine is a really stupid phobia as I'm quite good at swimming. But for somereason I'm just terrified of boats. I'm going on holiday to Mexico soon, and there's areally cool secret beach that you can only get to by boat, but there's no way I'll beable to do that until I can forget my phobia - and that's impossible.3LisaI'm frightened of the dark, so I really don't like travelling through tunnels. I think itcomes from when I was a child and my older brother watched horror movies in thedark. And unfortunately I watched them too and then of course I couldn't sleep.4AdamI've only got one real phobia. I got stuck in a small lift once. It was at an undergroundstation so it was really busy, but no one there noticed that the lift wasn't working.At first everyone inside was quite calm but as time went on, people started to get a bitnervous. In fact, I wasn't in it for long - but now I'll always use the stairs, just in case!5 SallyI have a real fear of hot air balloons. Luckily I never have to travel in one so it's notsomething I ever have to worry about! It's because you can't really see anythingkeeping them in the air I think​