Do you like being scared?

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1. toshiewoo
   

   movies in most cases are not scary lot depends on who you are watching it with.  Things only become reality when the mind actually registers it, when the mind believes it can happened is when people generally get scared. Lots of time when people get scared they will put the blanked over their head; would that keep the danger away; off course not but people think, if the mind can’t see it – it does not exist.
   
   Any intense emotion results in a sudden upsurge of blood to the brain and the heart and in people who suffer from psychotic and neurotic problems, it might prove fatal," says Dr Shekar Doddamani, psychologist.
   
   Why do people react in this manner? "When they are seeing the film it is fiction, but when the movie and the reactions to the scenes get registered in the subconscious mind it becomes real. The sub-consciousness records whatever you perceive through your five senses. When a person encounters a similar setting as seen in the film, he or she begins to re-live the reactions/emotions that have been registered in their sub-consciousness," says Dr Shekar.
   
   Part of what makes horror flicks so compelling and scary may lie in a segment of the brain programmed to react to expressions of fear, say researchers. Dr Raymond Dolan, professor of neuropsychiatry says, "The amygdala, a small almond shaped structure in the left temporal lobe of the brain is highly responsive to fearful facial expressions. The response to fearful expressions is probably not learned, but instinctive. The brain is simply tuned to that kind of response." A disease called Urback-Wiethe Syndrome can cause the amygdala to waste away in rare cases. These people have the inability to recognize expressions of fear in others faces.
   
   Why do people watch horror films when they know they will not be able to go to the bathroom alone in the night for the next few weeks? "The mystery of the unknown attracts us and the fear of the unknown follows us after we leave the theater. That's the joy of watching horror films.

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