If you're scared to death but love to watch horror movies, this is the best time to test your masochism. Can you imagine how late at night, with the worst horror movies on, your eyes are praying from under the covers, your legs are covered, and your bladder is about to burst, but you are afraid to walk to the bathroom, because you are not sure if a serial killer hiding just behind the door. Your thoughts are to blame for this.
You are reasonably aware, that it is only about the game, but irrationally tells you that they you have to perceive them as if they were real. Heart palpitations, nervous sweating and chest tightness... It's worth it experiencing an adrenaline rush just because of a two-hour movie, which you can't help yourself to resist?
Experts would say yes it's not worth it, because horror movies they mess with your mind, but that might not be such a bad thing thing. Michael Grabowski, associate professor of communication, adds in this context for Business Insider, Yes, although part of the brain knows, that you are not actually experiencing the horrors you see in the film, is your body is made to react to potential threats in order to survive. No matter how much the logical part of your brain realizes, that the scenes are not real, they still react strongly enough to the scenes that you see, and they are on high alert.
Some researchers have looked elsewhere for the connection between watching a horror movie and tricking the mind. V experiment on observing the response to a fictitious stressful event the researchers analyzed blood samples from 32 men and women aged 20 to 26 years, before, during and after they watched a horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The results showed that the blood samples of the spectators contained increased values of white blood cells, and heart rate and blood pressure levels also temporarily increased while watching the film.
Most research, which dealt with the effects of movies on the mind, did not come up with an answer, is watching horror movies associated with any lasting effects, positive or negative, on your mind.
Is it actually worth suffering sweetly before, during and after watching the film, but judge for yourself.
