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Do dense hole images make you feel uneasy, nauseous or even frightened? If so, you may suffer from dense phobias.

By Thomas Lin (Thomas Ling)

Editor | Liu Jiayu

Don't worry, you're not alone. It is estimated that nearly 20% of people will feel a strong aversion to lotus images, but scientists believe that most people have some form of reaction to such images.

"I think we all have dense phobias, but to different degrees." Said Geoff Cole, the scientist who was the first to study the disease.

However, although 1/5 of people suffer from severe agoraphobia (twice as much as claustrophobia), research on the disease is significantly inadequate.

"until the Internet developed and these images were shared on forums, no one realized that they had a dense phobia." Cole said. In 2013, he and co-author Arnold Wilkins (Arnold Wilkins) published the first scientific paper on dense phobias.

Why do people hate these images full of dense holes?

Is agoraphobia a phobia? It is easy to be skeptical of dense phobias, which attracted attention in the early 21st century because of the dense hole images in the forum. Even its name is made up of "drilling" and "fear" in Greek.

However, although the disease comes from a summary of netizens, Cole said that images of dense holes do have an impact on the human body.

Cole's research shows that people with dense phobias have a significantly higher heart rate when they see holes in honeycomb and bubble chocolate, even with symptoms such as nausea, sweating, itching and panic.

Cole also defines dense phobia as a mental disorder. "people with dense phobias react in the same way when they see these holes as when they hear someone scrape their nails on the blackboard," he said. "

The cause of dense phobia at present, there is no unified explanation for the cause of dense phobia. But scientists have come up with several theories:

Vigilance theory

Pathological theory

Visual stress theory

Network meme theory

Vigilance theory

The theory, originally proposed by Kohl, suggests that humans have evolved to be afraid of the patterns of poisonous animals or plants.

When people see images of dense holes, the brain sends a danger signal: be careful, it will hurt you.

Pathological theory

Similar to the vigilance theory, this theory holds that dense phobia is an adaptive evolution: because many skin diseases have the characteristics of dense phobia images, humans have evolved to be very sensitive to these characteristics.

"the brain has a physiological fear of skin symptoms," Cole said. "the fear response may keep us alert to the disease, whether it's our own or someone else."

Visual stress theory

The theory holds that dense phobias have no functional purpose and no reliable evolutionary adaptation.

"the neuroscience behind this theory is very interesting. recently, we used infrared spectroscopy to examine patients with dense phobias, which can see the location of blood flow and brain activity in the patient's brain." Cole said.

"when the patient looked at the image of the dense hole, we found that the blood flowed to the visual area of the back of the brain, rather than the decision-making area of the frontal lobe."

Cole believes that a series of reactions to dense phobias may not prompt us to judge the danger of an object. "this study shows that we don't like these images, maybe there are no evolutionary reasons, maybe it's just that the brain doesn't like it."

Network meme theory

Some people suggest that maybe agoraphobia didn't exist before it became popular on the Internet. People are just influenced by the hype and think that these images are frightening things.

"this is a debate about nature and nurture: is it true that people are naturally disgusted with creatures such as mice? or do we learn to fear them in social life?" Cole said.

"as some people question, isn't it strange that more and more people are afraid of spiders rather than cars? cars are more likely to be fatal. this is a large-scale debate about the acquisition of phobias, and it may never be able to come to a conclusion."

The causes of dense phobias are becoming more and more complicated and confusing, as many reviews have pointed out, it is difficult to examine genetic factors at the social level. There has been no study of phobias in identical twins who grew up in different families.

Indeed, in one study, six-month-old babies had slightly higher norepinephrine levels when they saw images of snakes and spiders than flowers and goldfish. But this alone does not prove that widespread human fears and phobias are innate.

"for dense phobias, it is difficult to distinguish between nature and nurture. As these images become more and more popular online, it is almost impossible to find and test an adult who has never seen an image of dense phobia."

In short, it is increasingly impossible for us to know the truth about dense phobias.

References:

Https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/trypophobia/

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