Would you fear something familiar... precisely because it became too familiar?

Question

Would you fear something familiar... precisely because it became too familiar?

Answer 1

...I would if the familiarity involved "being taken advantage of"...I think we've all been there at one time or another

Answer 2

No we fear the unfamiliar or unknown.

Answer 3

I'd say No . because familiarity , as it grows, degrades the amount of fear as much as the amount of love ( as in long term marriage)..Sort of inhibition takes place.. if any stimulus arises (4 more fear or love), a psychological reconditioning takes place then, and the mind would regulate all the "valves" to previous standard..

Answer 4

Only if I really wanted to be alone.  It is not the fear of the thing, it is the fear of " being " familiar.

Answer 5

familiarity breeds contempt, not, necessarily fear, unless of course one fears contempt.

Answer 6

When something becomes so familiar, it can scare us that it is... make us wonder "is there nething that this so familiar thing is UNFAMILIAR to me?"... Let's look at a classic case of fearing the dark. There are many reasons people would have this fear:

1) it represents the unknown

2) being unable to see anything in the dark makes the darkness and EVERYTHING unknown

The dark is a concept we deal with before birth. Then, it is comforting. Once we deal with light however, the darkness is something much more feared, much more unknowing, because we cannot see. We deal in darkness every day of our lives; but because of the dangers we know that happens in the dark (i'm talking literally nighttime), it creates an ebb of fear for us. It's not necessarily the dark itself, but what it subconsciously represents...

This is just a one-case thing. You could probably prove this with others, but i can't think right now:P

Answer 7

I sometimes fear to much contact from people in my life,i do not fear the unknown at all.

Answer 8

Sure some of my more familiar trains of thoughts are constantly deviating & terminating my newer & updated ones.

Answer 9

i have been doing it for years.

Answer 10

Fear of what?  Fear of breeding contempt...or falling in the rut...or complacence?  Could be.

But generally at a conscious level we do not fear familiarity.  In fact we are bound to take things for granted and get a bit too relaxed.  Now that could prove dangerous at times!!!

Answer 11

it bores me instead......