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your body's overcaffeinated bodyguard, screaming about a shadow that turned out to be a coat.
means Feeling intense, overwhelming fear, often to the point of paralysis or panic.
from From Latin 'terrere,' meaning to frighten or fill with dread — the same root that gives us 'terror,' 'terrific' (which once meant terrifying, before it softened into praise), and 'deter' (to scare someone off a path). 'Terrified' is the past participle of 'terrify,' built when 'terrere' picked up the '-ify' suffix (from Latin 'facere,' to make), so the word literally means 'made full of terror.'
- amygdala first
- fear fires before your conscious mind notices anything
- face freeze
- widened eyes evolved to suck in more visual data
- time stretch
- terror makes seconds feel impossibly long
- contagious
- a scared face triggers fear in onlookers' brains
- goose chase
- goosebumps once fluffed fur to look bigger