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Researchers have found psychological phenomena that make many people feel like jumping down when standing in a high place.

Ever been watching the river from a high bridge, or standing on the top of your building suddenly felt . something urging me to jump down?

This impulse comes when you stand in any other elevated place. And the scientific community named this phenomenon the High Place Phenomenon (HPP).

This phenomenon is called the high location phenomenon.

Researchers in the Department of Psychology, Florida State University conducted a study of this strange feeling.

At the beginning of the study, they thought that this study would clarify the idea of ​​Freud - a very famous Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist in the 20th century on the "death instinct" of humans.

Specifically, Freud has argued that in addition to life instincts, people have an intense instinct to die . Accordingly, when life is too difficult, there is no escape, suicide is an instinct of us.

When life is so difficult, there is no escape, suicide is our instinct.

This idea has caused a lot of controversy. So is the HPP phenomenon happening because we have our own suffering and our instincts rise to urge us to find death?

Hames and colleagues conducted a survey with 431 students. These students were asked to answer the question: Have you ever stood in a high place and wanted to jump down?

At the same time, researchers also assessed the psychological stability and the degree of sensitivity to their worries. The level of sensitivity to worries here is not considered psychologically but physically: heart rate, breath length .

A glass bridge on the cliff of China.

The results showed that about a quarter of these students responded that they experienced a "thirsty" feeling to jump down when standing at a high place. However, on the other hand, up to 50% of students have the answer that they have never had the idea of ​​suicide also undergoing HPP.

So, we can say, we want to jump down not because we want to die. After eliminating this option, scientists continued to study psychologically and provided answers for HPP.

Accordingly, when standing in a place of high altitude, the pressure exerted on the inner ear will change, so we will lose balance, dizzy and feel like we are about to fall down.

Because I want to live, I want to dance.

At that time, our vital instincts will unconsciously make us retreat immediately. After that, the brain will notice that there is no danger from the outside (the bridge has a railing .), so why should it come back so suddenly?

Suppose if we intend to jump really, at the time of going down, there will also be dangerous warning signs of the brain, we will also step back.

Thus, this act of backwardness will most likely be " inherently mistaken" by the brain, we wanted to jump down from above.

In other words, because there is an act of undoing in the unconscious (ie, the strong instinct), there is an HPP. Or maybe, because I want to live, I want to dance.

Ideally, we should stay away from dangerous high places.