Jimmy Higgins
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I remember seeing a Lotus flower for the first time and it wasn't pleasant, and I had no idea why.article said:Around 10 to 15 percent of people find these images uncomfortable to look at, said Nate Pipitone, an associate professor of psychology at Florida Gulf Coast University, who has been studying trypophobia for several years.
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While tiny circles in any context may be disturbing enough to some, Pipitone found that reactions are particularly strong when superimposed upon images of dangerous animals — and even more so upon images of human skin such as on the hand.
“This suggests that the extreme discomfort seen among those who are bothered by trypophobic images may be an adaptive response to avoid infectious diseases,” he said.
That is the thing... I didn't know this was even a thing, and when I was at a Chinese Garden, I did not like the Lotus Flower at all, despite it supposedly being a very regal flower. I wanted it to die. So it is clearly a thing.article said:Another theory about trypophobia is a bit less Darwinian and instead relates to the power of suggestion: If you’re primed to search for a supposedly trypophobic image after I imply it’ll make you itchy, you may feel itchy simply because you were primed to do so.