(Various) Things we can all learn from a damaged brain
Fear
(back to the index of emotions)
Below are the entries where Fear is significant.
| It is too easy to over-use the notion of fear. I try to use it sparingly. I now know that fear is when your brain is offering up no conscious, rational thought at all. | Fear is when you’ve lost the capacity to even grasp that you’re experiencing it. You can only attempt to understand fear after it’s passed, after you’ve survived. |
Some Of My Best Friends Are …
(1,473w / 11.1m) Get a richer life – don’t discriminate
Hospital Noise (Fear, Part Five)
(258w / 2m) Rationality-banishing
Close Nothing (Fear, Part Four)
(542w / 4.2m) ‘Closure’ as a false goal
The Colours Of Fear
(543w / 4.2m) Limits to images
What Might Have Been (Fear, Part Three)
(290w / 2.2m) Savouring relief
Constrain Your Animal You (Fear, Part Two)
(862w / 6.6m) Under control
Travel, You Idiot (Fear, Part One)
(531w / 4.1m) We’re not going on a …
Judgements/The Lurch Into Fear
(917w / 7m) An unexplained recollection of harsh, confusing, fear.
