11-09-2015, 04:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2015, 04:33 PM by dissonance.)
(11-09-2015, 04:18 PM)FrostedFake Wrote: In situations where you don't have time to think fear will save your life.
That depends on whether or not automatic protective reactions (closing your eyes when a glass object explodes) is caused by subconscious fear, or just subconscious awareness and wisdom of danger. Which is it? I'm not entire sure.
However, one time a long time ago in my teens, I was walking down to a beach with friends on a rocky cliff, and I sort of lost control, and started uncontrollably "jogging" downhill and I couldn't stop the downhill momentum, and before I knew it, I was at the edge of this 25 foot cliff, falling. At the very last second of my feet touching the cliff, I turned and sort of flipped around so that I was facing toward the sky, and my body was falling parallel to the ground. I ended up landing on my back flat on the sand, instead of at an awkward angle where I very well could have broken a bone, or a neck, etc. In those few short seconds, I didn't feel any fear, it happened all so fast; I was actually laughing (until I hit the ground, and got my wind knocked the FUCK out) and just in surprise like oh shit theres a cliff. All it was, I think, was my subconscious automatic survival reaction that calculated and "inteligently" (it THINKED) caused me to automatically and instantly position my body during the fall so that I would land that way. Food for thought.
I'm just mentioning this because any extra additions to the script which aren't needed are just potential watering-down of the laser-focused power and effect of these types of single-stage, one-topic subs.
