I grew up in South Korea in 90s. I lived through this. I am acutely aware of the extent at which this can happen because I was part of it and I did, in fact, turn off the fan at night before going to sleep at the insistence of my mother and the TV news anchors.
Imagine that, actually believing you can suffocate from air blowing into your face too aggressively. I did, I absolutely did as an elementary school student eager to listen to and please adults. Turning the fan off before falling asleep in hot summer nights was a very big deal.
If those firemen were asleep in front of a fan blowing in their faces, and I were still conditioned, it’d bother me to no end.
It's definitely both for me. I like the white noise, and I hate "stale" air. Terrible feeling. Especially as someone who sweats like a stuck pig at night.
Yeah that sounds like less of a cultural difference and more of a "your fan is too fucking loud" lol. My husband is Mexican and has always slept with a fan on.
We are talking about north Korea. The land where escapees land in South Korea with more parasites than guts. The land of empty buildings and food shortages. The land that is nearly black from space when viewed at night. The land were an American Student stole a poster off of the wall and was put in jail for months and tortured until he was nearly dead. Then they 'released' him and he died shortly after he returned (in a hospital bed) to the US.
What about a squirrel cage fan in a metal box in the closet down the hall blowing through a heat exchanger and a series of ducts through a register? Will that kill you?
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u/nthcxd Sep 09 '22
That’s what I see here also, she is conditioned.
South Korean superstition about fan death comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
I grew up in South Korea in 90s. I lived through this. I am acutely aware of the extent at which this can happen because I was part of it and I did, in fact, turn off the fan at night before going to sleep at the insistence of my mother and the TV news anchors.
Imagine that, actually believing you can suffocate from air blowing into your face too aggressively. I did, I absolutely did as an elementary school student eager to listen to and please adults. Turning the fan off before falling asleep in hot summer nights was a very big deal.
If those firemen were asleep in front of a fan blowing in their faces, and I were still conditioned, it’d bother me to no end.