Like when you think you’re caught or you have a close call in an accident?
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It’s dread and/or anxiety. It’s created by your limbic system to elicit some immediate response from you, because it thinks you are in imminent danger.
Relevant story. In college I participated in psychology experiments to make cash. One study was testing a synthetic hormone that replicated the feeling you get during an anxiety/panic attack or a bad incident (e.g. almost getting hit by a bus). I think the ultimate goal was to create a drug to help people that suffer from panic attacks. Anyway, I was to be given a placebo or the synthetic hormone injection at random and then my vitals were monitored to see how my body reacted. On the first day I was definitely given a placebo because nothing happened. On the second day I totally got the real drug. My heart rate spiked, I was sweating, and I had that intense sinking feeling in my stomach, almost to the point of vomiting. It only lasted for a minute or so, but it was wild and exactly the same feeling OP is asking about. That was the best paying (and most invasive) experiment I ever participated in. It paid like a month’s worth of beer money for my broke college ass. Ha.
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