Why is dose fight or flight system bypasses our rational mind?

John,

Because with fight-or-flight, your body is in pure survival mode. If you are trying stay alive and away from imminent harm, you do not need to think about it or "rationalize" the decision. The same thing will happen again when someone you love with all your soul accidently and very severely injures or hurts you (been there).

The flight or fight response is a rush of adrenaline due to some outside force that has caused the autonomic nervous system to attempt to preserve the body.

it is so extraordinary. i became in basic terms conversing to a chum on facebook and that i had actually in basic terms written the words "combat r Flight" and then 5 seconds later I observed your question. Creepy. besides, to respond to your question, regardless of if each and every nerve in my physique is crying at me to run, I do tend to stay and stick it out. purely for verbal circumstances however. If a gang of yobbos surrounded me interior the line there is not any way that i might combat them - i might run away as rapid as i ought to. BQ: i'm an extraordinarily reliable individual. I have been given with the aid of college with 3 disabilities, and have survived having an alcoholic as a father. I even have in no way long previous decrease than.

John...The answer goes back about 500,000 years. Simply put...if the wheel isn't broke, don't try to fix it. We used to rely on this instinctual response for a huge part of our lives. As years have sailed that special key that separated us from our cousins, the Neanderthals, slowly carved its way into our genetics. While our cousins were happy as clams on the bottom of the ocean just surviving, we had a special adaptation spark. We were able to look fortuitously into nature as well as our community to learn from patterns. So, years went by and we collectively began to spend more and more time into our interpreting selves rather than fight or flight. Our success was measured more on self-image as a collective of community rather than fighting for space with saber toothed tigers. But, those primative instincts remained deep in our primitive brains...and rightly so. For instance, two weeks ago, I was driving my truck along a city street, partly dissociating...mind wandering about...but equally aware that I was in a collective normal pattern of flow. I was approaching a traffic light on the inside lane with a school bus ahead of me and in the outer lane. I proceeded with that bus through the traffic light about 50 ft to its rear when suddenly my vision recognized a white automobile lurching at 90 degrees from a driveway just as the bus passed. It was coming at a collision course to what I thought may be a broadside into my truck. In that less than one second, I not only recognized the threat, but made a decision to perform an evasive maneuver to the left to attempt to miss the "T" bone. As I made that maneuver, I had to focus on my vehicle position as it relates to on coming traffic in the opposite direction to avoid a head on with them. I then lost sight of the whilte car coming at me, but in my brain I thought that I had not moved far enough to my left to avoid his unrelenting movement toward me. I was right. I heard and felt a "SMACK". This is my primitive brain doing what it does best. All these series of collective input, decision, making and behavior all happened in about one second. Unlike you, I was warned by my peripheral vision. But the same mechanism was in gear. Once this primitive part of our brain is triggered, it is an all or nothing event (for some unexpected events). The other issue is that each of has different thresholds for fight or flight mode. and to make that even more complex we can 'train up'. The U.S. Army has been doing that ever since there has been a U.S. Army.

because you were frightened, stunned, your body kinda freezes on you in those types of situations

yup