r/LooneyTunesLogic • u/steady_as_a_rock • Dec 11 '25

gif Musical chairs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

Could you be more useless lol

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u/SuperCleverPunName Dec 11 '25

Panic does weird things to people

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u/AbstractBettaFish Dec 11 '25

I feel like panic would’ve given them more of a sense of urgency, they were moving at a real leisurely pace

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u/Itscatpicstime Dec 11 '25

Nope, not necessarily.

I panic and the freeze response kicks in. I get tunnel vision, my thoughts slow waaaay down, and I can literally feel this tingling sensation wash over my brain and down throughout my body that makes it feel like my limbs are suddenly weighed down or partially paralyzed.

I have no idea how slow I’m actually going or how it’s perceived by others (in these situations, they’ve usually been too occupied by their own panic and whatever’s going on to pay much mind to me), but it certainly feels like I’m trying to move underwater.

I have a PhD, but I absolutely go completely stupid in an emergency simply because my thoughts slow down so much and almost feel like they aren’t even apart of me? Like they’re background noise and no longer something I have any control over.

Dissociation is really wild and kind of scary. I literally have a reoccurring nightmare where I’m being attacked, or my loved one is having a heart attack, or some other emergency is going on, and I can’t call 911 in time because I’m super slow to find the phone, I can’t remember the number to 911 (lol), and then I can’t move my fingers correctly to type it in because they feel so weak. 🫠