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I have to admit, even though I fly on a plane several times a year, one of my worst fears is a plane crash. I would also say a huge fear is swimming in open ocean water at night. What are yours?
Swimming in ocean water where I cannot see below my feet, that's a biggie. Second is swimming in the ocean, period.Greg Bernhardt said:I have to admit, even though I fly on a plane several times a year, one of my worst fears is a plane crash. I would also say a huge fear is swimming in open ocean water at night. What are yours?
PhizKid said:Sleeping with my toes sticking out of the edge of the bed
Evo said:I can't sleep if my toes are covered, I sleep with my feet sticking out from under the covers.
Gad said:+1 They need to breath too.![]()
Gad said:I remeber I was like this when I was little, I fear that something hidden underneath the bed might chop them off or something. :p
That someday PF would be gone and I would have to get a life.Greg Bernhardt said:I have to admit, even though I fly on a plane several times a year, one of my worst fears is a plane crash. I would also say a huge fear is swimming in open ocean water at night. What are yours?
now that thought deserves a thread of its own. I used to frequent Beethoven dot com's community board.Evo said:I read a study once about the differences in brains of those that are self stimulated (me) and those that require outside stimulation. They watched the brains of people that are self stimulated and while listening to soft classical music, their brains were all lit up, those that needed outside stimulation, while listening to the same music had almost no activity.
Greg Bernhardt said:I have to admit, even though I fly on a plane several times a year, one of my worst fears is a plane crash.
Greg Bernhardt said:I would also say a huge fear is swimming in open ocean water at night. What are yours?
I'm sure it's any sort of music some would consider boring. I'm wondering what pieces they played.Pythagorean said:I wonder... did it really have to be classical music though? I'm getting that baby mozart twitch.
Evo said:I read a study once about the differences in brains of those that are self stimulated (me) and those that require outside stimulation. They watched the brains of people that are self stimulated and while listening to soft classical music, their brains were all lit up, those that needed outside stimulation, while listening to the same music had almost no activity.
FreeMitya said:Dementia.
How come, the scary thing is that people do know that their mind is deteriorating. Or do you mean at what age?Greg Bernhardt said:This is a scary one because you don't know when it hits you.
256bits said:Walking down the street and seeing and meeting Elvis Priestly asking for directions.or not
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Butter churnSteamKing said:Who's Elvis Priestly? Did he sing 'You ain't nothin' but an oxygen molecule?'
My biggest fear is that the Amish Mafia will take over Las Vegas someday and turn the Strip into one big illegal butter churn.
The study was from over 20 years ago.ZombieFeynman said:This seems to be a false dichotomy to me. Can you cite this study? How does one determine whether or not one's brain requires outside stimulation or not? Is there not a continuum of brain response to stimulation?
That kind of exhiliration is particularly appealing to a personality type, aptly known as ''thrill-seekers,'' people who have been studied by Frank Farley, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. People who are high in that trait, Dr. Farley said, ''seek variety, novelty, intensity and risk.''
One theory holds that the brains of thrill-seekers are usually at a lower level of arousal compared with most other people.
Boredom Disconnects Parts of Your Brain
Researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Daniel Weissman, studied the interactions that occur between multiple areas of the brain when boredom sets in, and discovered that, as attention fades, so does the intensity at which several nervous centers communicate.