Why do people scare themselves? Like walking home in the dark, you hear something and start walking faster and before you know it you're running in a panic. OK, maybe its just me :shrug:
I think its just you and a few others like you. Perhaps you live in a neighborhood that is a high crime area? That could possibly be one reason to feel like you do. Another reason is that you have anxiety attacks as well which can be helped with medications. See a professional if this type of feeling keeps up and try to notice when you get the feeling as well so you can tell the professionals about them. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i know what your saying, i think your mind plays tricks on you in the dark, and you start imagining things that are not there, i personally hate roller coasters, i dont like being scared by them, i have never liked them, i cannot understand the fascination with them either, can anyone explain it to me?
I suspect it was thru evoluton that such a fear of the unknown began to develope in animals many thousands of years ago as a survival technique.!!!
They are not scary at all, I'm glad if I even get a little excited on one now. You get some g forces, feel like you are moving really fast and a dangerous manner and you get off and pretend you are not pissed for waiting in line for 2 hours.
About 30 year ago me an my wife was at Kings Island an wated over a houre for the Red/Blue Racer Rollycoaster... it was the firs big coaster we had ever been on... after its initial clime---when it started down the firs big hill i thout it had com off the track an we was turnin up-side down... but after that scare it was hell of a ride... i woud llike to have rode agan but i coudnt see standin in line that long agan... but a few houres later... aroun cloasin time (midnite?) ther was no watin... the lines was gone... an we rode it about 6 times in a row.!!!
I scare myself all the time because I like the adrenaline rush I get from it. Plain and simple. I watch scary movies, I take risks, I force myself to face my fears because it gets my heart pounding and my blood pumping and makes me feel alive. Stupid maybe, but what the hell.
Orleander, aparently the excitment and fear portions of the brain are quite closly linked. This means that while some people experiance excitment in an activity others feel fear Rember alot of the same physiological responces occure for sexual arousal, fear, and "excitement" (from an evolutionary point of view for instance when chasing down food)
Yup. Also anger. I can enjoy the adrenalin spike from having an argument, and go for hours feeling cranked up and druggy and happy while the other person walks around scowling or moping.
LMAO. This happens to everyone I think at some point. Usually when you are younger. I do a lot of camping. Awhile back I had a job where I worked on Saturdays but had Mondays off, so, typically I would stay the Sunday night alone. Where not talking about a campground, but out in the woods make you own spot type of camping. I learned alot about facing fears that were simply created by my imagination. The worst was sitting their by the fire and realizing that at any moment some freak could come up behind you and whack your head off.
Why not? Its not as if I investigate the noise and prepare to fight? I think I look Olive Oyl waving her wiggly arms running down the sidewalk screaming
EXACTLY!!! My imagination runs away with me and while its running away its dragging me into the path of a serial killer or a pissed off skunk with rabies.
Yet I bet you happily get into a car or a plane with no worries. I think it is normal. The thing is, you have the ability to choose run or stay. What if you were stuck by a campfire, would you leave it ? What if you were tied to a chair in the dark alley ? Since you can't just get up and run away your mind would eventually settle down and you would come to terms with it and realize it's all in your head. I will tell you that my experiences dealing with being alone in the woods always led me to the thought " well if it's my time it's my time " and that is about as religious as I get.
yeah well, its NEVER my time. EVER! If I can run, I do so. If I couldn't run, I'd tell myself that any sudden move would give away my location, so just sit tied in the chair in the alley.
And most likely you would wake up the next morning to some half drunk bum using you for a pillow. See nothing to worry about. Yeah, when I used to think about someone coming into camp with an axe, my body would sometimes move involuntarily as if I was dodging a swing of an imaginary axe. That's always fun.
You know Cosmic, when I learned what anxiety medications do, I quit immediately. They destroy the healthy/unhealthy flora balance in your stomach, and the bad bacteria will take over. That is what a "yeast infection" is. Bad bacteria that proliferate after you kill the good stuff off with drugs. This will happen every single time somebody wipes out their good bacteria balance with drugs. You shouldn't be so brazen and inconsiderate to the Drugs fix it I don't care" equation. That leads people astray. I never knew that, and messed my life up good because of it. Now I have to fix it all the time, garlic, herbs, proper diet. The glass ship of a stomach is not something to throw around like a beach ball. I think you all can understand the underlying meaning. Switching topics slightly, the alone in the woods feeling brings you to one undeniably true fact. The feeling of helplessness for the 99% of us who never have to experience the harsh and almost instantaneous death that would ensue in real life, is real life. The no shelter, nobodies going to McDonalds, I can't find the nearest water source, I just ate that berry and feel sick cause its poisonous and I didn't know it, what's that noise, where am I, I'm getting eaten up by insects, I can't get to the other side cause there's no way to get there, my internal compass is screwed, I'm going to die, that animal is getting closer, RUN, FALL, BREAK A LEG, panic, adrenaline, DEATH. That's what I'm talking about. An animal would catch wind of you, something in the realm of predatory instincts and survival would throw most of us into a state of complete and total horrific panic, which is God's language to be precise. We would perish from this earth in hordes at such a rate it would make God's head spin. Sam
A fight or flight response is an response to an immediate threat. It causes you to skip rational thinking, you either fight or take flight without even thinking about it. Your panic attack was caused by thinking about the situation too much. Were you mortified, or just frightful ?
