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So tonight's talk is on Dread.

Why is it by the way that people so love watching horror movies? I know I do.

When we are watching a movie like The Shining, and it is

activating the sympathetic nervous system, the terror or fear activates the

activates the mobilized state of the nervous system and that in turn releases

both adrenaline, dopamine, endorphins, and those in and of themselves actually feel pretty good when they're released. So sustained anticipation of watching a

character go down into a basement where a serial killer lurks in and of itself. It can be fun if it's a movie and you're not actually living in that experience.

But in real life we do experience times of dread and sustained anxiety and so that is tonight's topic when

dread doesn't feel good when it's not just a movie but

when it's real life. So what is dread by the way? Well it's the sense or the anticipation that a emotionally or physically painful event is imminent, paired with an unwillingness to face the experience even though

it feels inevitable that something bad will happen.

Dread is very, of course, similar to anxiety,

but in dread there's rather than general anxiety, there's to a degree sense of what kind of threat

might be present as well as it very often can lead to a greater state of

immobilization whereas anxiety can simply be something that mobilizes us into very fast

agitated states. So once again, dread is the anticipation of that an emotionally unpleasant event is inevitable,

imminent, paired with at the same time a unwillingness to experience it.

So some examples of dread that we see in culture one of my favorites

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