(September 7, 2012 at 6:33 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: One, there may be a psychological impact from things that are out of place, and where trauma or loss of life may have occurred.
Interesting thought. Keep in mind that the 'thing' out of place may be us; leading of course to the fear of inherent danger in an environment that we haven't evolved to exist in naturally; the fear of a lack of control over our environment (perceived control, I'm not inviting a philosopher to drop in at this point and argue that the human idea of control is an illusion).
I was a submariner. Some of our NUBs (new guys, NUB = non useful body) would start getting preoccupied with the manner of death at crush depth. Once it was demonstrated that the death would be almost instantaneous, they got along quite well.
This brings me to the next bit. Perhaps the fear is really the fear of the manner of death. Drowning has to be a terrible fate. Cthulhu said as much by citing the difference between submerged objects that likely resulted in previous death and others that haven't already claimed a life.
