https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvnlGWyeCjU
I find the subject of how fear and excitement are very close in vibration ( can be transformed to excitement) fascinating and this video series is a HILARIOUS example of how that is true. I wanted to share these videos because I find grown men screaming their head off like little girls so rich and darling and fun! Just watch it. It is so funny. I am not a sicko I promise! I am not deriving any pleasure from their terror per se as we all know they are safe and no harm is coming to them. I just love how they are in some ways loving their experience while screaming their head off. Some are genuinely sure they are going to die and will spend the next few hours pissed off that the girlfriend talked them into it. They have their face RIGHT UP against this terrifying moment of going from 1 - 132 miles an hour in 2.4 seconds and seeing how they deal with it is incredible. Most of the men ( which is funny cause the ladies are generally just having a blast) are passing out from intensity of the experience. Oops! Jason mentioned that it's not fear but actually something physiological with men doing that passing out thing.
I am not picking on guys and there are video compilations of ladies just as scared and losing it just as hard but I think it's wild. I think they all probably got off the ride a little prouder for having done it. Fear of heights is one of the number one phobias and this is one of those rides that confronts that. Now if you watch the girlfriends they are also afraid but seem to be on a spectrum of the vibration more on the excitement side of things.
They are just plain delighted, excited, thrilled and laughing their butts off feeling both the freedom of tapping into their own chemicals of excitement and hilarity having the time of their life. One woman was even having an ORGASM from the ride on one of the videos but I will let you dig that one up yourself you cheeky monkey!
I think there is this need for people to explore their fears in a safe way where the threat of death (which is probably the core fear here) feels all too real. There is a sense of danger and its very very convincing and yes there are reports of accidents happening of people dying on rollercoasters and ziplines and skydiving and those DO happen most of the time it's not happening. You are not going to die in a theatre watching a movie but the empathy for the victims in the movie is enough to ignite our own fantasies of what's lurking in the darkness. Maybe it's the chemicals we make when afraid, maybe it's the adrenaline? Why do people love to be scared?
Perhaps this is one reason why the genre of horror films, the adrenaline type sports and activities available ( bungee jumping) ghost stories and paranormal shows, these all deal with themes of confronting that which is hidden and unknown, of themes of death or mortal physical pain and pushing boundaries of concepts like safety. Fear is a fundamental programming mechanism and is built in to keep us protected in a bodily way so some phobias are almost sensible ( like yeah don't jump off that cliff and snakes yeah being bitten that's not going too go well) But it's also there to give the experience a sense of it being real and it's what makes the game work. If we did not fear death if we did not have those inborn protective mechanisms we'd just blip out of the game. It's really ingenious programming rules. However being able to modify the fear reaction. Can you be afraid but still work through it and do whatever it is you want to do despite the fear reaction that causes us to become paralyzed and run away? What is courage? When people are deeply afraid they go into a more basic primary state from being in shock. And in this place the ego shuts up and sits down and takes a load off. People in this state are in some ways unmasked because the personality literally takes a breather and more honest reaction in people surfaces.
We see this most clearly in shows like Scare Tactics. This is a prank show hosted by comedian Tracy Morgan and the show centers on the set up of a friend or family member. Usually the mark has it coming to them! A situation is created for the mark that is a totally convincing simulation or experience. A new job situation is usually the scenario and then the actors go about their business of taking the mark deeper into the scene complete with actors in special effects makeup and costumes and play out a scary situation until the mark is growing uneasy and then finally about to lose it pushed to the brink of their fear. When it's built up to a creshendo the tagline is always this "are you scared? and the mark looks at them in total bewilderedment. What? HECK yeah I am scared! and the actors says...wait for it! Well you shouldn't be.. cause you are on SCARE TACTICS! and points at the camera. EVERY SINGLE TIME the mark breaks into a smile sOOO deeply relieved that the monster or the situation is not real and just an actor and they have a breakthrough moment of a mini- enlightenment. What is incredible is many times the people who are so scared often act very courageously and in high level integrity ( thinking of others safety, taking a stand against the monster or authority even though they are often smaller and weaker than the alleged monster) so it also becomes a study of people's true nature. Or really like saying - are people going to let their fears of death make them act in a selfless way or a selfish way.
Here is one where he shows his true colors!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRxrN2zvk4
Just thought I would share this one on Bigfoot. Pretty funny!
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