I'm going to go ahead and say it's normal, as a phobia it's a lot more common than you might think. I know at least three people who have had it and as a child myself I was bordering on it.
As a kid I sometimes had dreams where I would see TV snow and it terrified me, frozen in fear as you describe. I'd try to scream but I'd be unable to.
When awake in real life ordinary, uniform snow didn't bother me but when it was between signals and the snow started flickering, getting those weird lines and patterns and changing from light to dark and making weirder flapping, fuzzing noises, there were a couple of times when I could no longer keep the terror bottled in and I went sprinting through to my mum in bawling, screaming, jumping hysterics.
I can't explain why it was terrifying, it just was. Even then I knew there was no way it could harm me, the fear was completely illogical. Then I grew out of it just as unexpectedly.
Is it normal that I am afraid of T.V. snow (black and white spots)?
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I'm going to go ahead and say it's normal, as a phobia it's a lot more common than you might think. I know at least three people who have had it and as a child myself I was bordering on it.
As a kid I sometimes had dreams where I would see TV snow and it terrified me, frozen in fear as you describe. I'd try to scream but I'd be unable to.
When awake in real life ordinary, uniform snow didn't bother me but when it was between signals and the snow started flickering, getting those weird lines and patterns and changing from light to dark and making weirder flapping, fuzzing noises, there were a couple of times when I could no longer keep the terror bottled in and I went sprinting through to my mum in bawling, screaming, jumping hysterics.
I can't explain why it was terrifying, it just was. Even then I knew there was no way it could harm me, the fear was completely illogical. Then I grew out of it just as unexpectedly.