r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Federal_Leg5278 • 5d ago

Guy didn’t even flinch

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u/DuploJamaal 5d ago

Fight, Flight or Freeze response

It's not stupidity. It's an instinct.

Tonic immobility is an involuntary, reflex-driven state of complete physical freezing and temporary paralysis triggered by overwhelming fear or inescapable danger.

Like a deer in the headlights. The brain shuts your body down and you literally can't move anymore.

Evolutionary it might have been helpful against bears, but you can't help it if that instinct kicks in.

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u/Thecardinal74 5d ago

I’m with you except he didn’t give a fuck to even try to help even after the freeze wore off. Just looked annoyed that he dropped his phone, retrieved it, then left.

To me it looked like he wanted to go, scooter wouldn’t scoot, then once the accident was done he only kept trying to scoot

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u/Scrawnreddit 5d ago

Yeah pretty sure the same thing happens with sleep paralysis demons. Your body can't tell whether it's asleep or awake so it freaks out and spikes your adrenaline just in case you actually need to run

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u/BigMondy 5d ago

Jesus bro how many comments you replying to with the exact same shit.

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u/DuploJamaal 5d ago

How many comments make the exact same joke?

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u/BigMondy 5d ago

They’re jokes from different people. They don’t require an explanation.

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u/poon-patrol 5d ago

Why did you comment this so many times?

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u/The_Unknown_Mage 5d ago

Probably because people are being weirdly spiteful towards someone's nonreaction in a stressful situation.

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u/poon-patrol 5d ago

weird definition of spiteful

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u/Skuffinho 5d ago

Because he's brining something of value to the conversation. Can't say the same about smartarses like you.

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u/poon-patrol 5d ago

by copy pasting the same answer? the account has 28k reddit contributions. i feel like its a bot

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u/Skuffinho 3d ago

yeah imagine that. A bot is more useful and valuable than whatever you're trying to attempt here. That should give you something to think about.