20 Times People Photographed Stuff That Nightmares Are Made Of

If morbid curiosity is the goal, then the subreddit r/WTF is the key to unlocking all of the game's stages. As you may have gathered from our first publication on this online community, it has a plethora (and I mean plenty) of items that you have likely never seen before. This time, however, we'll concentrate on the macabre. As if you were a 32-tentacled octopus. Or a massive sinkhole in someone's living room. That's the kind of thing nightmares are built of.

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Coltan Scrivner, an author and behavioral scientist who is a research fellow at Aarhus University's Recreational Fear Lab and pioneered the psychology study of morbid curiosity, explains that our first reaction is to avoid looking at these items because we are afraid of what we would see.
However, consider horror films. A jump fright occurs, and the scary person appears on the screen. The audience is split in half, with half covering their eyes in fear and the other half enthralled to the screen. Even those who have their eyes covered look through their fingers now and then to keep an eye on the assailant.
What motivates us to do this? Why do we allow ourselves to be terrified and anxious?

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Scrivner recommends starting with real-life scenarios to grasp it. "The car disaster narrative is a little tired and old," he says, "but it's an excellent example because it's something that almost everyone has experienced and intuitively understands."
"Almost everyone doesn't want to see someone hurt, and no one wants to watch someone die in a car accident. However, if they did, you are compelled to examine it."

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This is primarily owing to the fact that our forefathers lived in perilous environments. "The society we live in today can be dangerous, yet even the most basic therapies can significantly reduce the severity of an accident. If you were injured 10,000 years ago (or even 100 years ago), you had a much lower chance of surviving than you do now, thanks to modern medicine "Scrivner elucidates.
"Even if the blood loss didn't kill you, the illness that followed could. This put a premium on avoiding danger—or at the very least avoiding the danger's repercussions."

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"Threats have left an indelible stamp on our psychology, influencing our conduct in response to'morbid' events," Scrivner argues. "As a result of this, the majority of us have some morbid interest, and some of us have a lot."
This psychological propensity has manifested itself countless times in large-scale human conduct. Whether it's the Roman gladiatorial games or the presence of death in rituals and religion, death has always been present. Public executions are a spectacle. Similarly, the true crime and horror genres have a sizable fan base. According to Scrivner, each of these events is characterized by a human proclivity for morbid curiosity.

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