I think I read somewhere that our fears could be inherited from our ancient tribes. For example a person who's afraid of spiders might have ancestry that dates to a tribe that had to deal with poisonous spiders, when death by spider bite was a real thing. Or if you're afraid of heights you could date back to a tribe that lived in high places when falling to your death was a possibility.
Is it normal that i'm terrified of the depth of a lake or ocean?
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I think I read somewhere that our fears could be inherited from our ancient tribes. For example a person who's afraid of spiders might have ancestry that dates to a tribe that had to deal with poisonous spiders, when death by spider bite was a real thing. Or if you're afraid of heights you could date back to a tribe that lived in high places when falling to your death was a possibility.
Maybe you're just born with this fear.