Why does our brain sometimes not initiate the fight or flee but make us unable to move when we experience intense fear?
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Avoiding detection has already been covered, though a bit too dismissively with respect to other humans: in the darkness or behind concealment becoming immediately motionless can certainly sometimes be a better option to avoid being caught then tearing off. But also a sudden danger is not always from another being at all. The frozen lake you’re standing on creaks and cracks. The cliff above you just rumbled ominously. Sometimes the best way out of a natural danger is to become still and then to move slowly and carefully, minimizing vibration until you determine a place of safety.
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