what is fear?

[Rawr I love you]

Okay so I have experienced fear before but when someone asks me what fear is I can not put it in words so I just say something that happened in my life that I will never forget and has left me scared ... well to you what is fear?

[Silky-Potato]

Fear is how you react to something that you deem is a threat or danger to yourself, and if you can empathise then maybe even a threat or danger to other people. It's an instinctual response which is physical aswell as mental/emotional, enabling you to react suitably to the situation at hand (or at least its supposed to) 

Stuff like hearing/seeing things in the dark, scary because they could be potential predators, obvious things like fire, deadly animals, spiders. 
Basically, fear is a survival instinct, keeps you on your toes. Of course, humans are so stupidly complex and weird that we've now developed fears for things that aren't any threat to us, like fear of failure, fear of sponges, fear of not being liked etc. 

[Rawr I love you]

Fear is how you react to something that you deem is a threat or danger to yourself, and if you can empathise then maybe even a threat or danger to other people. It's an instinctual response which is physical aswell as mental/emotional, enabling you to react suitably to the situation at hand (or at least its supposed to) 

 

Stuff like hearing/seeing things in the dark, scary because they could be potential predators, obvious things like fire, deadly animals, spiders. 

Basically, fear is a survival instinct, keeps you on your toes. Of course, humans are so stupidly complex and weird that we've now developed fears for things that aren't any threat to us, like fear of failure, fear of sponges, fear of not being liked etc. 

well thank you lol and so true about the last thing

[MyraSweets]

Fear=Bugs

[Rawr I love you]

Fear=Bugs

spiders yes lol and then when a random bug decides to attack you out of no where o_0 its some scary shit lol

[Kuuro Hasagawa]

Hmm idk...(Dictionary??)

[Rawr I love you]

Hmm idk...(Dictionary??)

probably could of went to that but fear could be something different for many people that's why I asked