eli5: What is the sinking feeling we get when we are shocked by a possibly bad incident?

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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.

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