Thriller: why do our brains allow us to enjoy being scared? | Dean Burnett

Halloween is a time when we celebrate horror, People enjoy being scared, even though they technically shouldn’t. It’s because our brains are confusing ...If you were to be presented with a scene of unimaginable gore, where several of your fellow-humans were being hacked to death and their entrails and vital fluids scattered liberally around the room, your immediate reaction would presumably be to run away from this horror, and try to find safety (assuming you weren’t busy vomit