danger, and what happens is your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, you get an outpouring of stress hormones that literally can stop your heart from beating. some people say when they get scared it is like a charge. are there positive effects that can go along with? you know, healthy scare? hitch cock said we get attracted to something fearful but he used to say you can turn the projector off after the birds. in real life we think it is going to happen to us. we overpersonallize the risk and get into a cycle of worry, you don t sleep. your heart rate goes up and that s very bad for your health. you re talking about the literally results and effects of being scared. temporary blindness, does that really happen? what happens is when you have that fighter flight,