It seems like enough people share this experience that it’s pretty normal, but why? It seems completely contrary to survival as a species.
In: Biology
Intrusive thoughts like that are your brains way of saying “Hey, I just thought of this, it might be dangerous, what happens if we do it?”. Most of the time you realize that would be dangerous and don’t do it, but it can also scare you away from hanging out on cliffs or places where you’d fall because you get that sudden fear that you are going to do it, which prevents you from accidentally falling.
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