Know Trypophobia and solutions

The team of scientists in psychology from the University of Essex in the UK has been doing research and identify new kind of fear in humans, namely trypophobia aka phobia towards the hole. So, what causes this kind of fear?

Research leader, Geoff Cole, said patients trypophobia can not see the object that has a lot of holes with repeating patterns (clusters hole). For example, honeycomb, anthill, and a collection of soap bubbles. All sightings of objects that can cause sufferers of migraine, nausea, panic attacks, sweating hot, and palpitations.

"The fear may stem from the visual similarity hole pattern repeats certain poisonous animals," Cole said, as quoted by LiveScience.

In his research, Cole and his team wanted to know whether the person with trypophobia share a common visual features. They compared 76 images of objects trypophobia with 76 images holes that are not associated with the phobia.

Image object trypophobia designed to bring recurrent spatial features of an image hole, and has a high contrast at the center frequency. Pictures like this has the same visual structure, such as lines, which sometimes can trigger a migraine when viewed by a person with trypophobia.

One person with trypophobia, for example, be asked to provide guidance so that Cole and his team could understand his reluctance strong for a particular hole patterns. As a result, the respondents claimed to have the same negative reaction when seeing the picture the hole with a blue ringed octopus pictures, one of the most poisonous animal in the world.

To investigate whether poisonous animals can trigger trypophobia, Cole and his team analyzed images of blue-ringed octopus, scorpions, spiders, cobras and other venomous snakes. They find that picture all the deadly animals have a high contrast at the center frequency.

Cole and his team believe disgusted reaction to the hole cluster is a side effect of evolutionary adaptation to avoid poisonous animals. It is based on a state that every individual has an innate tendency to be wary of things that can be harmful.

We think that every person has a tendency trypophobia though they may not realize it, "said Cole.

He added trypophobia curable independently. How to often see pictures of cluster holes so that the patient becomes insensitive to the hole pattern repeats.