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Why We Enjoy Suffering & Understanding Your Freedom of Speech

Something You Should Know

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Imagination Is Like a Flight Simulator

One theory is we do this to some extent en ourselves up. We get in the habit of imagining a bad situations, worse case scenarios. And then when trouble really happens, you're more ready for it. I think this is kind of a nice theory of our imagination in general. Its a nice theory for why we often have unpleasant day dreams and dark fantasies and nightmares. It might be true that to some extent, we expose ourselves to difficult circumstances to prepare us for what's going to happen later on in life.

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