The Bear In The Woods

This one is famous. It’s like you’re walking in the woods, minding your own business, and you hear a twig snap. Your heart starts pounding, you turn around, and there stands a BEAR!!!! You know he wants to eat you, I mean, look – he’s slobbering and everything! You run without thinking. You have a panic attack and it saves your life.

The Inept Guard

A big burly dude who’s only job is to protect you in dangerous situations, except that he was taught in the old school, the “run or be eaten by T-Rex” school, tens of thousands of years ago. He is doing his job the best he can, although he’s an outdated tool in this modern world. So he’s trigger happy, he’s pulling the hormonal strings and he’s erring on the side of “shoot first and ask questions later”. It’s better to be safe than sorry, he thinks. “Let’s just panic”, he thinks, “at least we’ll be alive. I mean, that grocery store is like a herd of elephants at grazing time, we’ve gotta get her away from there, now!!”

The Haunted House Ride

We all know it. We all hate it. You’re in an amusement park on one of those dreadful haunted house rides, all the lights are off, it’s so dark you can’t see your hand in front of your face, and you KNOW any second some light as bright as the sun is going to blare on right next to you and some big ugly nasty monster is going to be there all lit up. You just never know when it’s going to happen, or what side of the ride he’s going to be on, or what’s going to happen afterwards. As in “oh, God, please don’t let it come AT me!!!”

The Car Crash You ALMOST Had

Say you were driving down the street, minding your own business, when out of the blue, a car approaching you in the other lane swerves and heads right for you. You slam on the brakes, you turn the wheel hard to avoid him, spin around in a circle and end up facing the other way, and when you stop moving, your heart is pounding and you’re having a panic attack.

You drive home safely, tell everyone about it - but they don't believe you because you look fine and there's not a scratch on either you or the car.

Locked in a Burning House

Imagine being locked in a burning house. Your right in the middle as the fire engulfs the house from the outside in. No one can hear your sreams as you watch the fire close in on you. Again and again you experience your comming death as your minds eyes relentlessly throws you perfect visuals of each and every second untill slowly the flames begin to burn you alive. A slow and painfull death that no one can do anything about<<< THAT is a panic attack.

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