I have a small fear of unfamiliar and wide open spaces (like being on the plains) anyone else?
Written by admin on April 7, 2010 – 12:25 pm -I don’t like being out in an open area where i can’t see any mountains, (even an area like Nevada scares me, where there are just one or two visible hills or ‘table-tops’) I can’t underestand why, though. only the prescence of surrounding mountains, or a large city or forest can calm my nerves! (I hate driving through Nevada)
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By Bob on Apr 7, 2010 | Reply
maybe you just like the feeling of being protected, which is given when you have something tall around you, so therefore, wide open spaces would scare you because you feel so exposed.
By Dr. Bob on Apr 7, 2010 | Reply
Oh wow…when I was engaged to my first wife in the mid-60s, I went home to North Dakota for a few weeks, and she came later. As she got off the plane (before those connector things…just a stairway to the tarmac) and got to the ground, she realized that there was NOTHING higher in North Dakota than herself. It is an especially flat state, especially in and around Fargo where she landed.
She hunched down and I expected her to drop to the ground and crawl. It has to do with the feeling that there is nothing that holds up the sky, and that it may fall on you. I think it’s some kind of primal feeling from our earliest ancestors.
About twelve years ago the Red River of the North (runs north through Fargo then up to Grand Forks and then up to Winnipeg, Canada) flooded at the spring snow melt. I went out the next year, and the man who picked me up at the airport to take my home (60 miles west) pointed out the place where the flood-waters came to…forty miles from Fargo. And it was also forty miles from Fargo the OTHER (east) direction. And so the river was 80 miles wide…only because it is SO flat there, the water just went on and on.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to go on so long, but your question reminded me of those two stories.