"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
-Yvonne Craig
This is an attempt to throw our previous conversations on imagination and our current ones on fear together. So how we decide what is scary to us? Well, I find it to be a real simple matter, actually. We take our knowledge and experience on things in the world that have frightened us, or made us nervous or anxious or stressed, and then take them to the next level and degree with our imagination. Now, when we read a narrative or watch a movie and experience something from within the narrative that reflects or makes us think of that which we have conjured to be frightening in our heads, then that is when we truly experience fear. It is a combination of experience, imagination, and then an outside influence to stimulate that which we have invented in our heads to trigger the emotion.
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