It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.
I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
