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| тhe ‘’call of the void’’. . . Can’t you hear it?
You’re driving along, minding your own business, and suddenly — you have the inexplicable compulsion to swerve into oncoming traffic—you have no intention of actually acting on this ‘impulse,’ nor are you ‘suicidal’… but it’s an eerie (and quite uncanny) passing-thought, nonetheless.
Or, have you ever been up somewhere — up really, really high — looked down… and had the tingling urge to jump?
… Why do such things even cross our minds when we have no intent or desire to act on them? I wouldn’t recommend that you read too much into it, *per occurrence, for your own sanity’s sake.
Not to fret, though — plenty of science-backed research is here to address such fleeting thoughts and lay your concerns of ‘mental instability’ to rest:
Scholars and scientists have vigorously studied these strange phenomena, which is better known as “the call of the void,” or, l’appel du vide (as coined by the French). *Note: researchers/scientists will often (also) refer to this as the “high place phenomenon.”
