Why are some people afraid to see the holey items?
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If multiple holes, a person begins to experience feelings of fear, dizziness, nausea and discomfort, we can assume that he developed trypophobia
Whether you have any feelings the photograph, which depicted a honeycomb? And maybe, at the sight of aerated chocolate you want to curl up in a corner and quietly cry? Or, perhaps, at the sight of Lotus seed your body somehow begins to run cold shivers and starts a bout of nausea and ? If Yes, then most likely you suffer from a recurring fear of holes — a trypophobia. This kind of unexplained fear affects about 16% of the population, which experts seriously interested in the causes of severe mental reactions at the sight of a harmless cluster of holes, decided to do some research.
What is trypophobia?
Despite the fact that international medical organizations have not recognized the sight of clustered holes for a mental disorder, thousands of people across the planet say that experiencing this type of phobia. The term “trypophobia” was coined in 2005 by an anonymous woman from Ireland on one of the web forums and by 2009 it was used more actively, because we are starting to see more and more people who suffered from the same kind of fear.
Many images with clustered holes disgust by natural causes
According to an article published on the website , people that suffer from trypophobia, often mistaken as caused by a feeling of disgust appears completely natural. Not the most pleasant feeling arises due to the fact that most for disease diagnosis to use with skin lesions of man different types of parasites that cause associated symptoms as nausea and weakness in a completely healthy person.
Experts have conducted little research into the attitudes of trypophobia, the results of which showed that the disease is directly related to the harm from the really dangerous things, which later on is transferred to the completely harmless things.
image of the seed head of a Lotus, some people consider “unpleasant and repulsive.
In the study, researchers analyzed 76 images, which could cause trypophobia reaction and compared them with 76 control images that did not cause the effect . It turned out that the images that cause a specific reaction had one thing in common spectral composition: the images were different colors high contrast in the distribution space. Some scientists believe that this is connected with an unconscious response to hazardous organisms.
In the same study, the researchers showed the seed head of the Lotus 91 men and 195 women aged 18 to 55 years. The results were that 11% of men and 18% of women called the plant “nasty and repulsive”. As trypophobia has emerged only recently and is still not an officially recognized disorder, the experts will examine new manifestations trypophobic reactions and to look for possible causes of their occurrence.
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