Since this week we will be having a Friday The 13th, and statistically speaking at least a few of you may be unsettled by it - this is called Triskadekaphobia - I thought it might be fun to list some common, and maybe not so common phobiaa, and their proper names. Here we go then....The Fear Of:

1. Nudity - Gymnophobia or Nudophobia.

2. Money - Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia. (Does some actually suffer this?!)

3. Outer space - Spacephobia. (This would be very bad for an astronaut)

4. Wet dreams - Oneirogmophobia.

5. Bees - Apiphobia or Melissophobia.

6. Eyes, opening one's - Optophobia.

7. Flying - Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia.

8. Dawn or daylight - Eosophobia. (This is very common in vampires)

9. Crosses or the crucifix - Staurophobia. (Another big issue in the vampire community, and the demoniacally possessed)

10. Places, crowded public - Agoraphobia.

11. Lawsuits - Liticaphobia.

12. Odors or smells - Olfactophobia.

13. Everything- Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia.

I can only imagine that #13 would be devastating, and I would advise anyone suffering with it to seek help immediately! For the most part I think everyone suffers from at least one phobia to a certain extent. Mine is #5, although I do admit that it is not honey bees that I am afraid of, but wasps. They are nasty! However, I couldn't find a name for that one.

So what is yours? And if you tell me you are absolutely fearless, and have never had a single fear ever I will assume that A. You are lying or B. you are stupid. Fear in my opinion, held in check is a good thing, and in part what keeps most of us from getting nominated for a Darwin Award.