This phenomenon occurs only if the level of fear and psychological tolerance are met. A person is mildly afraid, and at the same time the fear has a certain sense of judgment in the brain. If the fear is moderate, there will be sluggishness and inflexibility. High levels of fear can lead to fainting or choking.

When the panic reaches a certain level and is shocked and desperate, although I realize the danger, why is my body stiff and unable to move? I had a hard time trying to escape, but I couldn't even lift my feet.

This phenomenon occurs only if the level of fear and psychological tolerance are met. A person is mildly afraid, and at the same time the fear has a certain sense of judgment in the brain. If the fear is moderate, there will be sluggishness and inflexibility. High levels of fear can lead to fainting or choking.

Modern psychologists have found that the biggest difference between humans and animals is that people develop a fear of something that doesn't exist – a phenomenon that they themselves find strange because they don't know where this fear comes from. It is very meaningful to probe this question, and it can reach the secret passages of the mind more effectively than we can probe into a work. According to the British theologian James Reed, "Much of our fear comes from our incomprehension of the world in which we live, from the control it has over us." "The first thing we need to do in order to live a full life is to gain the power to control our fears. "In modern society, fear afflicts us more and more forcefully, to the point that no one can avoid it, which reminds me of the nineteenth-century English poet and essayist Mertz, who would ask the question: "Is the universe friendly to man?" This unsolved question plagues many people who think they are smart, and makes people feel the impermanence of the world. It is precisely because of the finitude and insignificance of human beings, compared with the unfathomable depths of the universe and the world, that the gap between them and the world is too great, that people are afraid of many incomprehensible things. For example, to this day, many people naively believe that the numbers "four" and "thirteen" will bring them ominous, which shows how vulnerable and helpless people are in the face of the impermanence of the world.

There are also many concrete things that also threaten the survival of human beings and make people have to be afraid. For example, suffering, or mental trauma, is everywhere in our lives, not to mention the bloody and dark passages in human history, even now, the impoverishment of the mind, the decadence of emotions, the desire of love, the retreat of noble spirits in secularized life, the increase in violence, the ubiquitous nuclear threat, and so on, have pushed humanity to the brink of danger. This is a world full of problems, and it is not something that human beings can easily bear. The "superman" predicted by Nietzsche was not born, and modern man bears a burden that only a "superman" can bear, which is why they are afraid and desperate. Let's recall the Atlas from classical mythology! He can carry the world on his shoulders and walk on the Atlas Mountains off the coast of North Africa, and he doesn't have much trouble doing so, because he is Atlas! But if He puts the world on our shoulders, we will be crushed at once because we are just ordinary people who cannot bear this burden. The same goes for mental problems. Since the Renaissance, man has been established as the center of the universe, the ultimate of existence, and man has begun to take responsibility for his own survival, which is like carrying the world on the shoulders of Atlas, which will eventually be crushed. Man has to pay the price for what he has done, just as the Jews paid the price for the concentration camp for the murder of Jesus of Zareth, and everyone can be said to pay the price. Again and again, there are setbacks, and the severity of survival is put in front of everyone. In Freud's time, human beings suffered only sexual frustration, but now, it has become an existential frustration, which is even more serious. This is how the tragedy may have begun: man, as a finite being, is simply unable to bear everything for himself. I now recall how blessed it was when the ancient saints knelt before God and prayed, and they could pour out all their troubles, pains, and misfortunes in their hearts to the Most High, and tears of sorrow could flow to Him, and the burden of life could be entrusted to Him.

However, in the twentieth century, mankind has chosen the path of self-responsibility, and in this way, has abandoned the sacred faith, and who will comfort us except for man's self-pity? As I read Van Gogh's letters to his lover, I felt that this lonely painter was in such a need of love and solace; Picasso, a master of cubist painting, used the three-dimensional method to paint all his life, abstracting people into lines and squares, but he painted his wife and lover with human nature, which shows that Picasso hoped to find comfort in the portraits of these lovers; In a letter to his lover, Freud said: "Little princess, when you come to me, please love me irrationally! This shows that Freud also longed for comfort in love, but it was terrible for him to say such a thing. Freud believed that sex was the ultimate goal of everything, and he did not theoretically believe in the existence of love. Because of him as a human being, there is an essence of the primordial desire for true love, which would curse Freud's sexually centered thinking. When he uttered the words, "Please love me irrationally," the shock he felt inside him could probably be described as fear and trembling.

The examples of Van Gogh, Picasso, and Freud point to a common fact: man is separated from the self, that is, from being. As Kafka said, what I say is different from what I think, and what I think is different from what I want to think. The fact of these separations plunged Van Gogh, Picasso, Kafka, Freud and others into deep fear and despair. They can't make themselves the kind of person they want to be. What's more, the cultural situation in which everyone lives seems to be a huge cocoon, imprisoning the self in it. This cocoon causes people not only to be unable to communicate smoothly with others, but also to communicate with themselves. One consequence of the impossibility of communication (not communication in the ordinary sense, but communication between personalities) is that everyone's self becomes a lonely me. Loneliness, real loneliness. I think of Antonioni's film "Zoom In", the whole film is full of the sound of the camera shutter, there is almost no dialogue, even the irrational performance scenes of the models, there is no hint of communication, and finally, on the tennis court, a man in a mask plays tennis alone, without an opponent, at this time, the camera keeps zooming out, and the person in the picture keeps shrinking until there is an empty court. This film, like Antonioni's other film, "Red Desert", fully expresses the loneliness, indifference, and empty scene of modern people without communication and comfort. Cinematists of the same period, Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, almost all expressed this theme in order to reveal the universal spiritual dilemma of mankind.

When people appear in the artist's field of vision in such a guise, it must contain the artist's deep fear of the world and of himself. "There is no more distressing emotion than fear," Boswell said; Fear makes us miserable and makes us contemptible in our own eyes. Montaigne said: "Fear is even more abominable and unbearable than death itself." "Here, fear means a loss of dignity. When Kafka wrote in the novel "The Cave" that the little animal pricked up his ears and nervously listened to the movement outside the cave, he had reached the abyss of loneliness and fear. Ingmar Bergman finished the famous film "Silence" in 1962 and said that he discovered an important fact: God is no longer there, and there is only silence in the world. Bergman was terrified by this fact. Afterwards, he told reporters that he had finished writing the script "Silence" while listening to Bach's music. I think Bergman was using Bach's music to resist his fears. Let's recall Coppola's famous film "Apocalypse Now", "I" walked on a river that seemed to never end, and became more and more afraid of the facts that I was about to face, when "I" saw the officer (Marlon Brando) who was hiding in the forest and refused to fight, fear drove "I" to raise his knife and slash at the officer, trying to relieve the inner pressure, at this time, the picture only showed the officer rolling in pain in a pool of blood, and his low, desperate cry: "Fear! Fear! "In this, Coppola shows us how much war has hurt humanity.

Fear, it is deeper than fear. Fear is facing a specific object, and fear, like anxiety, may be without a concrete object and boundless. A physical attack (like a tiger pounces on you) will cause fear, but mental damage will lead to fear and eventually despair. Fear is now, and fear can happen for the future and the unknowable. So, how does fear happen? Or rather, why do people fear? A pig is killed at night, and it can still eat happily at noon, but people can't do that because they are worried about what is going to come. In the future, without security, without the happiness of consolation, without the communication between personalities, man will not be able to find a proper place for his existence. Once he stepped out of his existence, anything could pose a threat to him. Without a greater protector and unreliable one, where does solace come from? In the face of the seriousness of human existence, fear is inevitable in the face of the seriousness of human beings who have elevated themselves to the center of the universe but are unable to control their own destiny.

Before exploring the causes of fear, I will first say what the basic form of fear is. Fear has many faces, but it can be summed up in three forms: first, fear of impersonal things; 2. Fear of "non-existence"; 3. Fear of death. We may be able to think of some other forms of fear, but the above three actually cover the vast majority of fear types. The intensity of fear also varies, from weaker to strong enough to cause despair, and some in between. Many modern people have experienced this terrible darkness, and from it have developed a philosophy of despair, and fear, which is said to be characterized by trembling, shows that people have endured more than they can bear, so that the mind has become insecure and has lost its dependence. In the face of existential threats, people need a greater protector.