Trauma Responses - Tonic Immobility

[Sammyiam]

I have had an experience that I'm not sure what it was. In my late twenties I was locked In a room and a man took me pushed me against a wall grabbed my throat and started doing whatever he wanted to me. I just froze, I was unable to scream move yell nothing. In my head I could see it all happening but it was like I was paralysed and it all happened in slow motion type of speed. I couldn't open my mouth nothing I always thought I just froze but I dont really know.
Maybe it could of been that ?

 

[DSawyers]

Explorer David Livingstone in 1844. Him in the a Lion's jaws being violently shaken and thereafter al...

I know of a real life situation where you can watch this "tonic immobility" in a person about to die. When the Sri Lanka tsunomi hit , it was all over the media. In horror I watched as a man walked way out onto the beach as the water sucked out, when the huge wave coming was in site, the man froze. He had to know for him there was no escape. He didn't move. He stood there looking at the wave. He didn't even look away, he froze solid. I watched as the wave took him. He never moved. I have been searching ever since on what would cause a person to not run in a situation like that. Tonic Immobility explains it. There is proof, it is out there on film somewhere.