Do you get more of a shock...

craig_t · 25 Jan 2016 at 15:46

When you're expecting it, IE you know someone is about to jump out on you, in a movie a monster is about to jump out etc.. Or when you're none the wiser, walking around the house and someone jumps out of a room shouting boo?

I seem to just get no effect if I didn't know it was coming, but when I set the suspense up in my head that something is about to happen I jump.. Yet some people who know it's coming don't?

Gilly · 25 Jan 2016 at 15:47

I generally don't jump either way, my 12yo is forever trying to make me jump because he leaves his skin when I jump out at him, and my mrs bugs me when e watch scary films because she jumps all over the place and we get frustrated at each other. Me with her for her jumping all over the place and her with me because I'm not!

Mat · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:15

Gilly said:
I generally don't jump either way, my 12yo is forever trying to make me jump because he leaves his skin when I jump out at him, and my mrs bugs me when e watch scary films because she jumps all over the place and we get frustrated at each other. Me with her for her jumping all over the place and her with me because I'm not!

I'm pretty much the same, except for the having a child part. Having said that, I do tend to jump if someone manages to creep up behind me and poke me in the ribs. The physical stimulus is far more effective than just a visual or audible one for me.

ebilcake · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:28

If your not expecting it obviously, if I know it's coming I won't react at all.

If you don't react to either your either dead or in a coma.

adolf hamster · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:28

I tend to dislike jump scares in films, seems a bit cheap really as it's just a long quiet pause followed by a flurry of action and a loud noise. It takes a different level of skill to make a horror film without resorting to them.

Irl i don't generally have a quick enough uptake to jump at things.

UTmaniac · 25 Jan 2016 at 17:10

Only when Kriss Kross is in the vacinity.

savagesam117 · 25 Jan 2016 at 18:21

Films and stuff don't make me jump as you are expecting it but if someone jumps out at me I **** myself! A guy i used to work with used to do it all the time to me

Colbaker · 25 Jan 2016 at 18:25

Surely "jumping" is an evolutionary thing, maybe attached to our fight or flight mechanism, ill postulate that those who regularly jump at stuff are more likely the flight type and those that are less likely are your fight type.

Still that's just thinking out loud and is probably a bunch of ponky poos!

Colbaker · 25 Jan 2016 at 18:28

savagesam117 said:
Films and stuff don't make me jump as you are expecting it but if someone jumps out at me I **** myself! A guy i used to work with used to do it all the time to me

I had that guy, ill give him his dues though, he would stand, face up again the toilet door for 15 minutes whilst I vacated my bowels all in the hope I don't realise he is there so he can scare me. He would go to extrodinary legnths to mane some jump, I personally am pretty hard to scare but he got me a load of times.

savagesam117 · 25 Jan 2016 at 18:32

Colbaker said:
I had that guy, ill give him his dues though, he would stand, face up again the toilet door for 15 minutes whilst I vacated my bowels all in the hope I don't realise he is there so he can scare me. He would go to extrodinary legnths to mane some jump, I personally am pretty hard to scare but he got me a load of times.

I had that, it basically rearranged the toilet so he could scare me whilst I was in there and I didn't hear a thing. I was most impressed!