Topic > Fear Lurking in Our Genes - 1020

Ancestral FearsIt could be something subtle like the sensation of something moving on your skin or catching a shadow moving out of the corner of your eye to cause alarm. It could be a more direct confrontation, like a loud thunderclap that seems to shake the world. Everyone is afraid of something: the dark, water, thunderstorms, spiders, heights... and of course monsters too. But where do these fears come from? There are some fears that obviously arise from lived experiences. A little girl wakes up from a nightmare and goes to her parents' room. They are watching the movie It. The little girl walks in while the clown shows his sharp teeth. Understandably the girl is traumatized. He develops a lifelong fear of clowns. A boy is buried in the sand at the beach. The other boys make fun of him and throw sand in his face. The boy tries to shield his face, but his arms are trapped under the compacted sand. He shouts at them to stop and ends up with sand in his mouth. He becomes petrified of being buried alive and avoids the beach. A child hides in a cupboard at school while playing hide and seek after hours. His friends can't find him. He thinks he's a great hiding place until he realizes he's been locked in that closet for too long. He decides to give up and find his friends, but the door is locked. He screams and shouts, but his friends had already left, thinking he was gone. It takes hours for the police to find him. He can no longer fit into a confined space. On the other hand, some people have never been given a reason to be afraid of something, but they are scared of it anyway. A guy who has never had a bad experience with heights is ruined jumping for the first time with friends. At first he is excited and impatient, but when he looks towards... the center of the paper... the same happened with the pregnant women who were in the Twin Towers on nine-eleven. At the time of that study, the children were all about one year old. This suggests that stress may also be carried in our genetic code. Here's something to think about... Many classic horror icons, such as Giger's Xenomorphs, Silent Hill's Pyramid Head, and other creepy creatures, share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, long faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason… If we look at the genetic memory and survival instinct of our ancestors, what happened, in the hidden eras before history began, that could affect the entire race human so uniformly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctive, and abiding fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor-sharp teeth, and elongated faces? (3)