Are you uncomfortable having the remote control pointed at you?

@RedDeerGuy1 – think about it for moment. What’s the danger?

@elbanditoroso Its like a gun pointed at you. I also don’t want to be caught on a hidden camera or get cancer. So its just me? I don’t like things pointed at me

I’ve had worse pointed at me
In fact there have been moments when I fervently wished it was a remote.

@RedDeerGuy1 A remote control is nothing like a gun. It sends a tuned, extremely low power infrared signal no more than 30 feet. It has about 1/500000 the power of a microwave oven.

There are things in this world to be worried about. TV remote controls don’t qualify.

@elbanditoroso So it’s just me? Or is their a name for the phobia? I also don’t like people opening the microwave door before turning it off.

It’s a phobia.

By the way, microwave ovens (sine the 1970s) have an interlock mechanism. If you open the door to the microwave, it cuts power to the magnetron (which is what emits the microwaves). So there’s no danger there either.

@elbanditoroso I wonder if the split second that the door opens that some radiation comes out.

Completely uncomfortable.
It is a total turn-off.

How often does this even come up as an issue?

I would had asked the person as to why they were pointing it at you?
Were they sending a message to be quiet or change the subject.
Its a passive way of telling one to change subjects or stop talking instead of telling the person nicely.
I had seen a husband do this to his talkative wife who was having a conversation with another.
Very rude and abusive to treat someone whether his wife or not, if he didn’t like it HE could had left the room.

No, i’m not.

I’ve never thought about it as I can’t think of a time that I’ve had a remote pointed at me!!! I live alone & whenever I pick up the remote, I’m NOT pointing it at myself. Before my husband passed, we were usually sitting side by side so he never pointed a remote at me either. I’ve had NO reason to fear the slight signal being emitted from a remote; so, I can think of NO reason to fear one!!!

I would think that the gesture was very rude

.About the worry of the signal on the remote… one wonders if it would affect epileptic and cause a seizure?

As I heard somewhere that this can happen , however not sure if remote control can cause it?
I just found this interesting tidbit on “Photosensitive Epilepsy”
link:
https://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/guide/photosensitive-epilepsy-symptoms-causes-treatment#1

I guess it depends on the flicker of that remote etc for some it can trigger a seizure.

Quick Googling suggests…

There is remote control phobia, but it’s not limited to remote control pointing

Loremophobia is the fear of losing the remote control.

I didn’t find one specifically for fear of having a remote pointed at you, but anything can be a phobia for someone – it doesn’t have to be common.

I think it’s more like you have some paranoid tendencies, a busy imagination, a tendency to go to peculiar extremes with ideas, and seemingly something that tends to have you ask a lot of questions here that seem to me like I’d expect you to be able to reason them out yourself, but I’m not clear why exactly.

Not liking being pointed at by anything is very common and not unreasonable, however.

The remote has significantly less effect on you than a flashlight.

I suspect if a person was a avid video game player of Gun play etc it would be a trigger of reflexes.
Programmed into there memories ( red target light means ones going to be shot in the game) causing a reflex of caution/anxiety.

Your assessment is more or less correct. It’s just you. But that isn’t exactly correct. There are others. They’re relegated to the tin foil hat wearing segment of our society.

I am intrigued by the gaming theory. It very well could be a tie in. I wonder if there are any studies in progress.

I have pointed the remote at my daughter a couple of times. It would be if we are having a conversation and she says something ridiculous, I would point it at her and say, “mute”.

This could be an idea for a sci fi movie – aliens controlling humans by pointing their remote control devices at them.

When it’s pointed at me it means I need to shut up now!

When my kids were little they’d play “remote.” One would have the remote and follow behind the other way and give “Pause, play, FF, rewind” commands. :D

No, it turns me on.

I didn’t used to have a problem with it, until my wife hit MUTE.

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