the.com/astonishment
the brain hitting pause because reality just broke its expected script.
means The state of being overwhelmingly surprised or amazed, when something so exceeds expectation that you're momentarily struck speechless.
from From the Old French 'estoner,' to stun or daze, which traces back to Latin 'ex-' (out) plus 'tonare' (to thunder) — so to be astonished is, quite literally, to be thunderstruck, as if a clap of lightning had gone off beside your head. The same Latin thunder rumbles through 'stun' and 'astound,' all cousins born from that crash.
- jaw drop
- Slack jaw evolved to widen vision and inhale faster
- word roots
- From Latin for being struck by thunder
- freeze response
- Surprise briefly halts movement to gather information
- shortest emotion
- Pure surprise lasts under one second
- face flash
- Raised brows and wide eyes are read universally
for instance
titanic sinking april 1912 — unsinkable ship went down in 2 hours 40 minutes, killing 1500 people