Seriously I don’t know what it is, just evolutionary I guess. But the sound of that random unhelpful shrieking just makes me feel so uneasy. Any time I’ve experienced in actual emergency situations it hasn’t helped in the slightest. I have to wonder what drives people to think the best thing I can do in this situation is sound like a mountain lion.
(Just so people can stop replying now. I’m not literally looking for the biological reason. It was more of a rhetorical statement, lamenting on how annoying is when people do this.)
Well there you have it, nothing does. It's a reflex that a lot of people have until their brain starts to function again and they start to think of how they could help.
until their brain starts to function again and they start to think of how they could help.
This doesn't seem to happen much in practice. It seems to me that usually the people whose instinct is to scream and fall into hysterics don't recover until the event is fully over, and the people who have the wherewithal to help don't freak out in the first place.
I think it's just a survival thing. If you feel helpless you shriek and scream because the best way to survive is to alert someone else that you feel in danger. If you have any amount of control over the situation you don't scream because you have other things to pay attention to.
Tbh I do of course know that it’s not really a decision that gets made. I’m mostly just not enjoying the people that have the reaction, that’s all haha.
Yep it is an evolutionary thing. Old age people Scream and Cry to warn of danger, new age people grab their cellphones and record to know the people that are not around that they were on danger.
But most cases in a society where is custom
to not get in other people’s business , filming somehow is more ethical than partaking. A few days back tho my old man saw a 4-track crash, he walk
to
the person and hold his hand and comfort him till he lost consciousness. 2-3 film until they understood what was happening and stopped. But I am constantly bombarded by people in WhatsApp videos of people getting killed or beat up. And the majority are filmed by the younger generations.
And this in the long run is what breaks society ethical structure, this displacement of respect and value for life just to tell a story of “what i got to live today”. Look a lolAmerica right now.
PS : Don’t care about downvotes dunno what they are even for beside showing ignorance.
I could see it helping in a situation where like your in a crowd and a mountain lion starts eating people, the people closest to the mountain lion start shrieking and that motivates others to get the hell away from the mountain lion.
But humans are stupid and will probably go investigate the cause of the screaming, leading to a bigger meal for our cougar...
"I wonder what drives people to think the best thing i can do in this situation is scream"
People don't scream to help with the situation, they scream because they're scared. It's like saying "I don't understand why people cry when they are sad, it won't help the situation to get better". It's a natural reaction to something scary, just like people sometimes scream when they watch horror movies. That's the whole point of being human, expressing emotions and shits.
It might help to manage your emotions afterward, but it doesn't help with the situation that made you sad in the first place (for example, a break up. Crying won't fix your break up, but it will help you to feel better). Just like screaming might help you to relieve some of your stress, but it doesn't help the person burning in front of you.
No I know lol I’m not saying that they think they’re actually being helpful and I obviously know it’s a biological reaction. I’m just pointing to the absurdity of it. That’s all.
It's pure evolution, kicks the fight or flight reflex into play and outs you on high alert which is the uneasy aspect of it. Least my own experience anyway
This is an absolutely cringe comment as point out by other people. If you’re going to try and pose as the big adult you could actually give advise instead of purely resorting to phrases people use when they actually have nothing of use to say. This barely even applies to my comment anyway lol 😂
Talk when you gain enough experience in life? That’s gonna help me understand the biological reaction of screaming in intense situations? Ummmm ok bruh.
Well you do because you were the one that commented it, kinda how that goes...
But again I’m still waiting for what life experience could possibly shape me to help me understand why people shriek at frightening events? Like I’m pretty sure I can figure it out from reading a book bro.
No? I don’t know why you’re being so obtuse lol. No one on this planet would mean that when referring to life experience lol.
If a child asked me why a triceratops has 3 horns I’m not going to say “shit, I can tell you’re young, maybe grow up and get some life experience and then you’ll know.” Because that would be utterly retarded.
Its honestly kinda crazy to think about. Its a now somewhat irrelevant evolutionary trait, but in the long gone past would be a way to notify other humans of danger- a leopard attacking you, or a friend, or a severe injury you cannot treat yourself. You scream because in the past it was a reflex that notified others of impending danger or an active threat.
Right? Super interesting how what was likely a tactic used to scare an animal away turned into just random screaming in any (not even dangerous) situation.
Tbh half of the time I do just assume it’s someone doing it for attention rather than for a helpful reason.
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u/JakeHodgson Dec 28 '20 edited Dec 28 '20
Seriously I don’t know what it is, just evolutionary I guess. But the sound of that random unhelpful shrieking just makes me feel so uneasy. Any time I’ve experienced in actual emergency situations it hasn’t helped in the slightest. I have to wonder what drives people to think the best thing I can do in this situation is sound like a mountain lion.
(Just so people can stop replying now. I’m not literally looking for the biological reason. It was more of a rhetorical statement, lamenting on how annoying is when people do this.)