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I'm not afraid of heights, but my body reacts in an illogical, panicy way that threatens to (and has) make me fall over, creates tiny tunnel vision, doubles my blood pressure, and makes me hyperventilate. But no, I am not cognitively afraid of heights.

I'm not afraid of heights; I'm afraid of falling.

I've been up Pikes Peak (lived in Colorado Springs for a year and a half). Personally, the alternative route down from Cave of the Winds is scarier. At least 25yrs ago you could look down and see the cars that didn't make it.

It depends. When I was stationed in Turkey I would climb tall antennas at night in windstorms to get used to heights. I installed a lot of TV antennas and climbed a lot of roofs. I have driven over narrow roads in the mountains and it doesn't bother me. But watching shows about climbers on mountains or seeing some of the old documentaries about building tall structures makes my palms sweat.

No, I like the thrill, the threat of death, the mortality, it is liberating, confirmation of the weakness of animal tissue.

I was at one point..then I got job where I had walk on duct work 60 feet up by climbing out of a cherry picker lift..it all comes down to trusting in yourself..

I was for about 2 days when I was about 8 after I climbed to the top of a tree on a windy day. The branch snapped, I fell and bounced off one branch before landing on another. After I climbed the same tree up to the point where the branch broke, my fear subsided

One of my little brothers wants to be one of the idiots who race to the top. Someone dies there seemingly every year as one false move...

i am afraid of heights

I have a healthy respect for hieghts. I climb in Colorado and when I have to move through a section with significant exposure I definitely get nervous. I'm fine as long as I'm on a harness and believe my leader has safely secured the route though. I'm not experienced enough to lead climb.

Yes! I cannot stand roller coasters or tilt a whirls.

I'm not. I respect heights but I don't fear it. Kinda like electricity and water. If you fear it, it'll get ya. Understand it and respect it and you'll be fine.

Heights? No, not if I feel reasonably secure. Tall ladders, carnival rides, roller coasters, etc. I avoid. Helicopters, planes, gazing out the window of a tall building, driving over a very tall bridge, no problem. Rock climbing, it depends on the climb.

When I was 8 years old or so, I was looking down about 200-250 feet from atop a bluff at Rib Mountain State Park, near Wausau, WI. It was not necessary to climb to get there, but there was no railing or other sort of barrier. It is nothing compared to Pikes Peak, but I was a little kid and Granite Peak, (a.k.a. Rib Mountain,) is the second highest point in Wisconsin. So I'm looking down the longest drop I had ever seen, toes an inch or two from the edge. My elder sister, ever the jokester at the time, snuck up behind me, grabbed my shoulders, and simultaneously screamed, "DON'T FALL!!!!"

It took me about an hour to swallow my heart again and stop shaking. She never apologized or expressed any sort of remorse for that dangerous stunt. I blame my uneasiness about heights in certain situations on that incident.

I trim or remove trees sometimes, for work.

Yes, I am, and on one road trip out west, I had the thought that if I did the Angel's Landing hiking trail in Zion National Park, I'd cure myself of it. I'm not sure why I had that notion, but even though I completed the hike, it didn't cure me of my fear. I wonder why.

None for me, too much for my brain . No climbing for me.

I'm afraid of widths.

No, not afraid of heights, per se, but I've noticed a curious thing lately when I watch certain videos of people in precarious places, or doing things like extreme sports in high places; I get a little verklempt. Some of the videos are of places and activities I've done myself, like skirting the edge of a 400' mesa on a mountainbike. Go figure.

Yes I have a fear of heights

I am not scared of heights, but I have a healthy respect for the drop.

I never used to be, but from my mid-30s onwards I've become so.

Yup, I'm totally afraid of heights. Anything high enough that falling would hurt. Buildings, I'm ok with as long as I'm not looking out a window or thinking about it too much. Planes I've forced myself to get comfortable on.

Yes, but usually when I'm not strapped in or when I don't have control. If I peer out over a roof I get dizzy. When I look straight up at a tall building I get dizzy. When it comes to roller coasters, I love it.

I think they said the only two fears most, if not all people are born with, are heights and loud noises.

...but is it a fear of heights, or getting hurt or killed from falling from a height?

Justifiably so, I’ve always thunk I’d have panic attacks while cleaning my chimney 3 stories up … I’d lay on the roof feeling my hands sweat.. I remember being up the Calgary Tower ..and feeling it sway! Once chaperoning a middle school field trip ..pressed against the outside of another tower as the students nonchalantly stroled it’s deck, thinking damn - I’m totally worthless right now ...Gravity’s not a law you want to break

I love the drops of roller coasters.

I am not really afraid of heights, but I am also very careful when hiking about not getting too close to a cliff edge. I think I am more afraid of injuries I'd get from falling than from just beign in a high place.

That depends. I was a pilot for many years, so altitude is not an issue. I've designed and built custom Ham antenna systems and that requires working at heights. However, when I have to come down from a roof on a ladder, there is some trepidation. I'm also intimidated by being on the edge of a cliff. About 15 years ago I began getting vertigo at times which eliminated motorcycles and aircraft. Because of this, I avoid heights too.