AAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!! ..do you startle easily

Does anyone else startle easily? If there's a sudden noise or somebody jumps out of a closet and startles me--I levitate with fists up immediately. And the thing is,even if someone does it to me--they can do it again in a few minutes-same thing happens. My kids loved to see me flip out when they jumped out of a closet or some hiding place. Laughed their butts off. Or dumped ice water over the top of the shower curtain!! That's a classic. Try that one--it's fun. Just make sure the person will take as it's intended--to startle 'em and make 'em holler. Tell 'em that sumbitch on Hippie Forums told you to do it. I want reports-mmmkay?:sunny:

 

Having PTSD yeah, it can happen.

 

I get startled when people jump out of no where and scurr me
i love doing that to people as well though, especially at work

 

pieces of fluff startle me sometimes.. or anything that looks arachnid.. lol.

 

I used to startle more easily than I do now. I used to have to walk away instead of waiting for the toaster to pop up, lol.

 

sometimes yes, sometimes no. i have absolutely no idea what causes me to sometimes shit myself and sometimes not react at all.

 

^ditto

 

Uhhh, that made me cringe!!! I call them "s" words, I can't even say it

 

It's good to be be scared. If nothing else for that feeling afterward that everything's gonna be OK.

 

I like to scare people. my wife is rediculous jumpy. I am too.

 

I predict blood pressure pills in the very near future for ya!

 

with the whole spider fear that i have which is growing day by day i try to look at it like my body is like 50 times bigger than theirs LOL

 

i find it extremely annoying, and people who do it deliberately a plague on the planet. the are thieves who rob the diversity of the imagination, and everyone of the kind of world we could all be living in, if they didn't do so. the pseudo-sophistries of excitement are an addiction, just like any other.

 

I hate it when i'm working off shifts and I'm supposed to be the only one here and someone sneaks up on me. (Usually unintentional of course) Good thing I don't carry a weapon.

 

I don't like to be startled, it makes me extremely angry most times....:-/

 

I was prescribed klonopin, a benzodiazepine, for multiple severe anxiety disorders for several years. Just earlier this year i stoped taking it, tapered down my dose, but for about 3 weeks, maybe less following as i went through withdrawals (which by the way are TERRIBLE, truly terrible), and after the w/d i would get VERY easily startled by any loud noises, yelling, things like that.

Thankfully i am learning to deal with all of that a lot better now.

 

I watched a documentary where people somewhere in Southeast Asia have a word for someone that's easily startled....its called a Lahta. They consider it a curse, actually.

I am not easily startled at all. No Lahta here...but, if I'm deep in thought and its quiet, a noise can make me jump a little...never anything heart-stopping like some people.

 

Loved to scare people including my parents as a kid myself too

 

A couple of my friends in high school took a bunch of firecracker fuses,tied them together and hooked 'em up to an M80 or some such. When they were in study hall (which was also the library) with 20 or 30 others,they put their little rig in the back of the room,lit it and signed out ,thinking they wouldn't get caught. I'm really sorry that I wasn't there, but when that baby went off,it was said you could hear it almost everywhere on the school grounds.

People who were there said it was deafening and everyone went right up in the air!! They got caught,of course(school authorities KNEW my group!) but didn't suffer any consequences except a good talking to. Why?? Because it was 1956. Imagine someone pulling that now!!