3 Fears

List three legitimate fears you have and how they became fears.  Taken from this list here. 

1.  Dogs.  This is more from my childhood than now, although I am still a little uncomfortable around some dogs.  And apparently this fear was based on a repressed memory because I remember some precipitating factors, but not the initial one.  So, what I have said as an explanation all these years was that one day, I was a little girl the neighbors came to visit with their dog.  I started to scream and run in the front yard, while the dog  - who was as tall if not taller than I was on all fours - was chasing me.  He was doing it in a playful manner I think because I remember people were watching and laughing (if I were really in peril, my family is not cruel enough to laugh despite their flaws!).  What I learned a few months ago was that before this incident, one day I opened the door, and this Chow was on the front porch.  It had my brand new kitten in it's mouth, and was shaking it around like a chew toy.  The kitten was clearly dead, and apparently I was so traumatized I completely forgot this moment, but both of my sisters remember it vividly.

2.  Being the passenger in a car where I feel I have no control.  I think this stems from when my grandma was driving me home from piano and rear ended someone, happening right around the time when one of my high school friends died in a car accident.  Afterwards, if the car I was in was approaching the car in front of me too fast, I'd literally freak out and would grip the sides of the car and I think I probably just made the driver more nervous than I was.

3.  Spiders.  Don't know why - maybe because they are creepy and crawly?  (And yet I am still going to the jungle...)