What are Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature?

What are Some Creepy Facts About Human Nature?

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[Techischannel]

What i hate is how people get sociopaths and psychopaths wrong constantly. Also, when it comes to sleep: You die of exhaustion if you dont rest, this includes the mind, sleep is basically a combination of both.

[crackedhelm]

The bystander effect is beyond terrifying, a few years ago a buddy of mine thought it would be a wise idea to walk on a (fairly large) frozen pond; going as far as the middle. Predictably, it broke and he fell though. I smashed and broke through the ice on one side before realising I could not go further so I got up out of the ice water and was about to run to the other less deep side. That's when I saw them: dogwalkers, joggers, random kids and at least a few elderly people out for a walk; none of them tried to help. Luckily my friend started to cling onto the ice rather than attempt to swim and slowly broke his way to the shallows. I was there to meet him but only when he was safe did these perfectly able bodied people start moving again. I think I'll remember that for the rest of my life.

[joshs.]

20 years ago I lied to my friends and said I hooked up with these girls at the beach. I did not, but my memory of meeting them, going to their hotel room, hanging out, drinking, smoking, and having sex is much stronger than my memory of making them up.

[harpy]

I was a victim of a bystander effect when I was little. I was walking home in winter. Then a stray dog attacked me, it started biting and ripping my coat and my pants. I was screaming for help. I saw people just walking by, looking for a second and continuing on their way as if nothing happened, I managed to hit the dog and run away. Thankfully, my clothes were thick so I only had a couple bruises. My soul was hurt. I felt lonely and angry at them for not helping a child. Now I try to help people whenever there is an opportunity. Y’all, help people even if you’re unsure. If help wasn’t actually needed it’s still better to attempt and be in an embarrassing situation than let someone actually get hurt

[xmason]

Something I find very scary about human nature and the human mind specifically is that humans will act sporadically and randomly at times and is very unpredictable impulsively

[ladymorrigan]

Aphantasia is the lack of an inner monologue. I learned about this recently. They don’t experience mental visuals, can’t picture their mom’s face or a room in their house. It had never occurred to me that some people don’t have an inner voice.

[NightFall]

I’m so glad to tear that the feeling of impending doom is a real medical term. I’m sure there were countless people who felt like something bad was about to & there voices there concerns only to fall on deaf ears only to be right.

[Rosy_Ros-]

I wouldn't say it is a creepy fact, but humans have better peripheral vision in the dark or dimly lit areas then frontal vision. This is because the rod cells that react better to dim light are mainly located in our retina's periphery. I would say the only reason you could take this as creepy is if you are in the dark with just a bit of light and see something move in your peripheral vision, but when you look at it straight on you can no longer see it.

[RaynmanPlays]

The problem with the "uncanny valley is about dead bodies" claim is that the uncanny valley also applies to movement _and even speech._ If the way a person is speaking is off enough (think malfunctioning AI in science fiction), it will trigger an uncanny valley response.

Which means that the thing in our evolution we feared looked human, moved like humans, and _spoke like humans._ And it was the humans that could more easily recognize the mimicry that were more likely to pass their genes on. The closest thing I can think of to that is how cuckoo birds will mimic the eggs of birds whose nests they're trying to infiltrate. Those birds have an "uncanny valley" response to those eggs. And cuckoos are in an evolutionary arms race with the birds whose nests they infiltrate. Their eggs get more complicated and cuckoo eggs are catching up to match.

Did we eradicate the human mimics, or did they just become good enough to overcome the uncanny valley?

[larry]

Story 13: I think it has more to do with there were at one point 6 or 7 other similar human species to homo sapiens. I think fearing something not quite human goes back to that.

[MrLandShark_]

A way to get past the Bystander Effect is not to ask everyone for help, but to ask one specific person. "Hey you, red shirt, sunglasses. Help me out here." Instead of everyone collectively thinking "There are so many other people here, someone else will surely help this person." One person will think "This person needs my help."

[RIP_Rxnin]

Boredom can actually be a very powerful feeling and can have a lot of influence on you. You could be the sweetest man alive but at any moment your brain could tempt you into doing something twisted out of shear boredom.

[lev_n]

Knowing your organs can reposition themselves is rather cool than creepy, a relieve maybe knowing that your [any organs] wont stray away from their place

[Tiosedan]

One of my biggest fears is this "void effect", I always panic when I look down a ledge and I have several dreams about freezing in front of something dangerous and slowly walking up to it.

[ukiaskk]

I was in a situation with the bystander effect before. I was in 4th grade on a summer trip with some high schoolers, some other 4th graders, and some staff from my school. We went to different "fun" places. We were at this water park where everything was going good but I ended up drowning for a bit. There was a lot of ppl there and despite me struggling in the water yelling out for help, no one did until one of the high schoolers jumped in and pulled me out of the water. Afterwards I wondered why NO ONE tried to help me despite me yelling and struggling in front of them

[saucevc]

The scariest fact for me is the fact that according to brain scans, when given a choice and time to think about that choice, people make up their minds before they're even conscious that they've done so. The idea that our consciousness is little more than an inneffectual passenger in our bodies while our subconscious makes all the choices, plus the implication that there could be people with no consciousness and we wouldn't be able to tell them apart from us without a brain scan, is horrifying and seems to disprove free will.

[theparticularist]

The inability to recognize faces is a real thing. When it was used in one of the Ace Attorney games as a major plot point in a case, I thought it was pure bullshit and went to Google to check. It's real.

[marzsminecraft]

if you mimic someone movements for long enough then suddenly stop the person you were mimicking will start to mimic yours. usually without being aware of it. I found this out during middle school and still do it to this day. im 17.

[Outlaw]

"We are easily influenced by authority"

"Some people just don't like being pushed around and told what to do." -Sheriff Meyers, Fallout New Vegas.

[Cardiocab]

I was too lazy to watch the entire vid, so idk if this is in it, but:
Did you know that that feeling that you're being watched is actually for a reason? Believe it or not, humans have a primal instinct that can sense when we are being watched! The sense we have now is a significantly less powerful sense, because we used it primarily when humans were cavemen. However, it is still there and the "I feel like I'm being watched" feeling unfortunately means that there is a big chance that you are actually being watched!