Am I Normal?thoughts
When on a plane, I involuntarily imagine it crashing even though I know the statistics
The brain's threat-detection system runs independently of rational knowledge. Air travel phobia specifically involves the amygdala overriding the prefrontal cortex's statistics — you can know flying is safer than driving and still feel viscerally unsafe. The vividness of catastrophic imagery is an evolved feature, not a malfunction.
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Related fact
Flying is approximately 95 times safer per mile than driving. But driving deaths accrue in small, invisible increments while plane crashes are dramatic singular events — and the brain weights dramatic risks far more heavily.