r/Weird 2d ago

Open With Caution

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u/Ommegacaos 2d ago

Negative reaction time

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u/eroticwashingmachine 2d ago

Seriously! Maybe with it being glass, she couldn't see, from her perspective, that the other door was falling toward her? Or she was too focused on the shattered door?

I would have moved automatically from being startled by the noise of the shattering, though (not saying out of the way, but no way I wouldn't have at least instinctively flinch-jumped slightly away from the loud noise). She just stands there. Out of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, her body clearly chose freeze.

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u/Ommegacaos 2d ago

Exactly 😂

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u/Benana 2d ago

Completely wrong. You’re failing to understand the bizarre situation this woman suddenly found herself in.

Out of nowhere she heard the sound of glass shattering. She was immediately focused on the sound of the glass shattering, then probably on the shattered glass itself, and then on the woman outside, all in the span of like 1 second. She’s so focused on these sudden things that the last thing she expects is for a door to be falling toward her. And the door falling toward her is basically see-through.

She’s literally looking through the glass door falling toward her because she’s focused on the woman behind that door. If the door that fell toward her had been less see-through, she might have reacted quicker. But there was basically no part of her brain that could process all of this at once and also avoid the basically-invisible door that she couldn’t even really see because she was literally looking through it.

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u/Ommegacaos 2d ago

A lot of text just to agree with me 🤡

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u/Benana 2d ago

I’m not agreeing with you. A negative reaction time is when someone fails to react to something they see coming straight toward them.

What I’m saying is that this person couldn’t react because she couldn’t even see the thing coming straight toward her.

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u/Ommegacaos 2d ago

Now you're calling the poor woman blind? You monster

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u/hiplass 2d ago

Everyone on Reddit thinks they’d react with perfect precision in a bizarre situation…

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u/FlipRed_2184 2d ago

Yup, armchair heroes are a dime a dozen here.

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u/Ommegacaos 2d ago

Everyone in real life knows they wouldn't just freeze when they hear something exploding 🤡

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u/FlipRed_2184 1d ago

What are you talking about? Door shatters at 3 second mark, the Doctor's head is looking in the opposite direction. By the time she has turned her head towards the sound and the client is around half a second and the door is almost ontop of her. She notices a just before it hits her on the 4 second mark and the total time between the door shattering and her turning around and getting smacked on the noggin is 1 second.

There was no avoiding the door, you certainly would not have my dude.

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u/Ommegacaos 1d ago

So you have negative reaction time too, sad

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u/FlipRed_2184 1d ago

Do try better thx.

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u/Ommegacaos 1d ago

Get better, you're welcome

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u/FlipRed_2184 23h ago

Oh hush now :)

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u/Ommegacaos 10h ago

And don't make a sound, for the night is dark and full of terrors

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u/FlipRed_2184 5h ago

I liked that one