Anyone Afraid of Heights?

I'm okay with heights as long as I'm restrained. I do have a mild aversion to them under certain circumstances. Much like small spaces, they don't always bother me, but every once in a while they really bug me.

It depends on the circumstances for me. 100' up a tower on an oil refinery with an open grate floor was more than high enough, but 2500' up strapped into the back of a flex-wing microlight didn't bother me at all.

I don't mind height in general, but I really can't walk on glass-bottom platforms that show you what's beneath you, even if they are just a few feet off the ground. I don't think I could go out on that cool glass-floor arc at the Grand Canyon , but would have no problem looking over an edge.

Heights don't bother me but I typically don't like climbing ladders..is that weird? If I took an elevator or rode in a magical balloon or something I'd be fine...but ladders..no thanks!

Heights bother me sometimes, other times not. It's random. Though I hate standing on things like ladders, that does bother me. The harness thing would be something that would bother me though for sure.

Hi,

Heights generally don't bother me, either, as long as I'm harnessed; I've been parasailing twice at least 500 feet (about 150 meters) above the water. The key for me to remember is that falling is generally exhilarating, but landing, meh, not so good.

Jim

Jim, just remember that it's not the fall that gets you, it's the sudden STOP

I don't mind them enclosed...but I don't like them in the open air. I never knew this about myself until I tried to climb a replica of the Eiffel Tower at King's Island in OH. Suddenly, I had this weird vertigo, where I literally couldn't walk another step. Inside though, say at the Empire State Building, doesn't bother me. OH - and curiously, the real Eiffel Tower didn't bother me, either. Maybe it was just climbing the steps, and the elevator made the difference.

Ha, it was just a yes or no question, wasn't it?

I don't think of myself as afraid of heights, but I will say this: When I see people, like the guys working on skyscrapers, just walking around up there like it's nothing, I know that there are definitely people who are less afraid of heights than I am.

Ugh..me too! That freaks me out..in the town where I grew up they were building a bridge but they left the existing bridge right next to it so we could still get too and from the mainland..anyway..the new bridge was high and when you drove on the old bridge you could seem them working on the new bridge and once the men were hanging off the side of the pillars to do something..but oh my goodness it terrified me..my palms were sweating and I was just sitting in the passenger seat.

I am definitely not afraid of heights! Skydeck in Chicago was amazing!! 103 stories up on the tallest building in the Western hemisphere! The first picture is us (me and one of my Disney roommates, who i went to visit there) sitting on the Ledge and the second is one of the boxes hanging off the side! There are 4 boxes, all extending out over the city (a glass box)!

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Great pictures, but it looks COOOOOOLD.

That looks awesome! And I agree..cold!!

Oh. My. Gawd. I don't think I could do that!

Just don't look down Jeff!

Nope, No, Never, No way. No. Saw it when it opened, immediately ruled it out forever. I guess plexiglass boxes are the other asterisk to my "afraid of heights" rules.