Dang, sounds like a really close call. That'll definitely buy you a phobia.
People can drown / get pulled far into deeper water p easily in some beaches, even in relatively shallow water (chest high). Just a few months ago a guy that owns a well known restaurant here tried to save someone from drowning in a situation similar to yours. He and 2 other people that also tried to help drowned trying to rescue the person, who also didn't make it. Was all over the news. Some beaches'll fuck you up.
Oh wow. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. Can relate, but I'm more in the high discomfort zone than phobia.
That almost drowning must have been terrifying. Do you remember it or was it an early infancy thing?
Scary thought. Do you get a similar feeling about open ocean or is it space specifically?
Not my biggest fear but the idea of swimming in very deep water is very scary to me.
I haven't read it front to back (yet?). It has interesting info on the practice of magic in antiquity and some cool insight into ancient worldview. It's written by several authors (each episode/section of a diff one focusing on different aspects), most are full of footnotes and they all definitely read like world history academic documents, but not science ones. Maybe the ones that rely more on archeology get close. Very few opinions, most conjectures and interpretations are cited, but it manages to have good content and if you don't mind skipping some boring parts, mostly manages to stay interesting.
why does it smell like chloroform