Fear and Lust are two different feelings at the first glance. In reality, they do belong together. DW-reporter Ann-Christin Tart trying to understand why Horror Fans shudder so much.
Oh God, I don’t want to – but here I can’t stay that way. My heart is pounding. My mouth is dry. Dense fog obscured the path in front of me. The threatening music from the speakers increased my alert. I take a step into the fog. Suddenly, a Mutant with glowing eyes appears in front of me and yells at me, I’m going to scream and run.
A young woman points and laughs at me. He who laughs last, is, however, a blood-smeared construction worker who stands behind her and poke. Her Laugh is to cry, than he is pursuing you and his rusty shovel radio spraying on the soil.
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The business with the creeps
The Mutant and the construction workers are just two of the 280 elaborately costumed monsters, the scare during the “Halloween Horror Show” at the Movie Park Germany in Bottrop by the area of the strip and the visitors. In addition to the free stray creepy design, there are Horror-homes – extra is designed, to confront the visitors with their worst Fears.
While I break suffer already in the queue for such an attraction, almost a nervous breakdown, seem to be the most around me are sincerely looking forward to the Horror. How can you let yourself to be frighten, please volunteer to death and still have fun?
The game with fear and excitement
The response of the psychologists on my question is this: fear of pleasure. At first glance, two very conflicting emotions. In reality, however, speaks of mixed feelings. The consciousness fluctuates in moments of fear, lust. “Something puts us in fear and terror, and shortly thereafter, we realize that we are not in danger,” says psychologist Peter Walsch burgers of the Free University of Berlin and member of the German society for psychology.
The origin of this feeling mixture is deeply rooted in the people. Fear has a survival advantage, warns you of danger, and the desire for arousal and satisfaction of Desire ensures the reproductive. But to be able to as a Teenager or adult is afraid to feel pleasure, to be built in the early child age of confidence in a safe environment. “To the extent that the child’s trust and sense of security was able to learn, it can open for new experiences,” says Walsch Burger.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsIt smells of Carrion
May we introduce? An octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri). Like all fungi it belongs neither to the animal nor to the plant. Fungi are an independent group of living organisms. The super power of this agent: He smells like Carrion. The color is reminiscent of rotting meat. This attracts flies and dung beetles, which spread the spores. Smart Guy!
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsNot fatal, but also not tasty
Home of the squid, mushroom in Australia, Tasmania, new Zealand and the Malayan Islands, but he doesn’t look so tight. In the meantime, he is much more. In Germany, he was discovered in 1934 for the first time. Toxic, he is not. After removal of the spore container and their gelatinous Gleba-layer, it can be consumed – only, you should not expect a culinary Highlight.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsGrisly Hand
The multi-faceted wooden leg (Xylaria polymorpha) is also known as “dead finger” or “Dead Man’s Fingers” is known. It grows on trees, preferably on dead or dying foliage. Outside, the wooden bat is dark brown to black-brown, internally white and fibrous. The dead fingers are not edible. Also, you don’t want to be the cannibals 🙂
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsYoung and bloodthirsty
The Sharp cork stacheling (Hydnellum peckii) resigns, if he is young, a watery-red fluid like blood. At the Hutunterseite and at the peduncle spines run down. That should be deterrent enough, because here we have to do it with a poison mushroom.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsThreat and threatened
Cork the barbed rings are represented in Central Europe with about 15 species. They belong to the value and rarity of the fungal flora. However, the Sharp cork stacheling like sociable. It is not rare to find him in, along with other endangered species such as the pig’s ear.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsDelicious Pig’s Ear!
This is the famous mushroom that have just been discussed. The pig’s ear (Gomphus clavatus) is a mushroom of the year in 1998, and often looks like – exactly – a sow’s Ear. The good news for vegetarians: This mushroom is delicious and the quiet conscience is to be consumed! The flesh is white, tender and of mild flavor.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsForgotten Bird’s Nest
The striped Teuerling is also called the bread basket or bird’s nest fungus. He belongs to the family of mushroom-related. The species occurs almost worldwide, but is only beautiful and not a mushroom.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsExcuse me?
May we introduce? A Stinkhorn. The Latin Name is “phallus impudicus” means “shameless Penis” and not by chance. Because that’s exactly how the fungus is found. Its tip is end up with a smelly, sticky substance covered. With good reason: Because this attracts flies which carry the spores of the obscene fungus more.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsThe fine veil lady
Also here is morels, a fungus from the genus of Stink, but a little less offensive. The “Bridal veil mushroom” (Phallus indusiatus) is wearing at least a veil. The fungus flower is also foul-smelling, but it is used in fine Chinese cuisine like. It is rich in proteins, carbohydrates and fiber. Well then good appetite!
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsFrom brain to gut
The meat is red, gelatinous Cup (Ascocoryne sarcoides) like’s sociable. Most frequently the fungus is found on dead wood of birch, willow or beech. A little bit of his appearance is reminiscent of offal. However, there are various forms of centrifugal-, upholstery-, to Cup-shaped, thick gelatinous meaty, flesh pink, violet, to pink, to Burgundy. In theory, it is edible, but…
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsInedible DoppelgangeR
The DoppelgangeR, the meat red, gelatinous Cup, the large-pore gel Cup (Ascocoryne cylichnium) is. The latter is inedible, the two can only be microscopically safely separated from each other. So better stay away!
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsCarnivorous Plant?
Wrong, very wrong. This copy is neither meat-eater nor a Plant. Cookeina tricholoma belongs to comrade to the Ascomycetes and is a pretty harmless time. However, he stands out due to its shape and the Hair especially. In Parts of Mexico Cookeina tricholoma is consumed as an edible mushroom, in Cameroon, it is used for medical purposes against ear pain.
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Happy Halloween: Boo-tiful mushroomsWhat mane ne Lion!
Also the hedgehog-spiked beard, monkey head mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) is a hairy eye-catcher! And, he is edible, in contrast to most of the other barbed mushrooms. In Asia, he is regarded as a delicacy and is popular in traditional Chinese medicine. However, in the nature of the hedgehog-spiked beard is very rare to find, he is on the Red list. Therefore: Only look, not touch!
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Flight or fight
What exactly happens in the brain when a person has anxiety, explains the psychologist on the example of an evening walk in the Woods. “You’re already tense, in principle, something and, suddenly, a meandering movement in the Foliage,” says Walsch Burger. A structure in the limbic System in the brain for the processing of emotions in charge, gives a warning – warning of danger, snake! This leads very quickly and without large Thought to be a flight or fight impulse.
As we rule now is different. The cerebral causes some people to pause for a Moment and reflect rationally. A second look exposes the supposed snake as a harmless Branch – the fear is dispelled, there follows relief. Others, however, are not alarmed so massive that they are to this Reflection in the location and just only the Situation of wanting to escape or react aggressively.
As the end of the walk is stored in the memory, there is already a tendency for the behavior in the future. “Who has survived the Situation, builds self-awareness and will continue in the future in the evening, stroll in the forest. Those who ran away, will restrict its action radius, in the future, and the forest in the evening rather avoid,” explains the psychologist.
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Horror as a valve of the idea
Fear, desire to work, especially if the person feels despite of the terrible situation to be sure. For example, in a horror movie in the cinema. “Horror provides us with the safe version of Horror that we don’t want to be in the real world or can’t have,” says the cultural scientist Christian Lenz of the Technical University of Dortmund. Because in the cinema the audience can just hold the Hand in front of the eyes, and to turn off the home with a push of a button on the TV. The unconscious feeling of safety and security protects.
The appeal of the creeps I’ve understood now. But the concept of a horror movie raises a further question: Why watch people brutal murders on the canvas that you would condemn in reality? “The killer in the Film can act out the actions that you can not live out even just. Everyone has thought ‘I Could only but’. The effect on the audience as a projection surface,” explains Lenz.
I think back to last night, when I was in the car on the road. Another driver has cut me off and I would not guarantee that my Schimpferei youth was free. “Would you have sat in a convertible and all had noticed it, would have been the threshold is greater,” says Lenz. Horror, and especially horror movies provide an outlet for thoughts and action requests that are not using social norms to be compatible.
Even though I know you better now, the lust, the Fear, and I probably no longer friends. I’ll stick to Halloween, prefer to stay at home and spread the Sweet instead of Acidic.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Horror films strengthen the immune system
Horror movies have a positive impact on our health. The Experiment shows that researchers had a test group, still in the sitting room – the other saw horror movies. The result: The subjects who had seen the horror movie, showed the Film to a higher proportion of white blood cells. These are Central to the human immune system.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Movie marathon instead of lifting Weights?
Who is watching scary movies burns also calories! The study, which was conducted by scientists from the University of Westminster says at least. The best Personal Trainer is “The Shining” with 184 calories. “The white shark” brings it, in spite of obsolete technology, still at 161 calories.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Training for the real thing
But why do we make horror movies? Thesis: From an evolutionary point of view, they prepare us for life-threatening situations. “We are developing cognitive behavior to detect patterns of potential threats quickly and react appropriately,” says the fear of researchers Mathais Clasen. Maybe you should look at before his next hotel stay “The Shining,” exactly.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Biblical fear of the snake
Researchers from Virginia have asked adults and elementary school students to find a series of eight images a specific. The snake, the participants found in the tangle of images at the fastest. Frogs, caterpillars, or flowers found at a far slower pace. The researchers studied for the first Time, the improved perception of evolutionary threats in children.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Spider cocktail
Another Experiment tested the human perception in relation to Scary objects. Although the participants should focus on, to mix a Cocktail, they noticed the spider, who suddenly appeared beside them, directly. Other distractions, such as syringes or houseflies remained, however, beside the point.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!The real dangers of life
Fear and loathing is to protect us. However, human Evolution has not yet arrived in the modern civilization. Our primal Fears – spiders, snakes, heights, tight spaces – have hardly anything in common with today’s dangers: industrially produced fatty acids, cigarettes, cars, alcohol. Amazingly, you don’t have to like these threats as a decoration at Halloween.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!The strange case of the patient “SM”
Not everyone feels the fear. The Patient SM (not in the picture) had damage to the Amygdala. This region of the brain is, among other things, for hazard recognition. Horror movies, haunted mansions, or hideous animals were taken on the patient no impact. Instead of being afraid of a snake, the Person was looking for the animal for over three minutes of the song.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Zombie Monkeys
Monkeys seem to have similar as we are afraid of Zombies. In a study conducted by Princeton University showed macaque, both real monkey faces, as well as misleading. The monkey looked at the real pictures. The researchers see this as evidence that apes have an instinctive aversion to disease and genetic deformities.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!The smell of fear
Fear you can smell actually! Cinema-goers in Vienna, both as a horror film, as well as a normal Film was shown. Then dabbed them in the armpits. In the case of the subjects who have seen the horror film, was the scent of fear evident. The stress hormone Cortisol is apparently not responsible. Fear of fragrance materials must, therefore, have a different origin.
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Constant Alert
Horror movies can cause a permanent, negative perception. In a survey of students, 75 percent said, according to horror movies to have lasting disorders. These difficulties include, for example, to go into the water because they had seen the Film “The white shark”, discomfort in the presence of Clowns, or fear in the forest to Camp for the strip “The Blair Witch Project.”
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The exploration of the anxiety – And why Halloween is good for us!Video games are not without effect
There are also Horror video games, it first studies. Australian researchers have found that the intense experience interferes with Play sleep. The gambler slept shorter, and the sleep was less restful.