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Why do we want to go hide in a hole
Colin1234 November 7th, 2016
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Why is it that we want to find a nice deep dark comfy hole to hide in when we feel sad, scared, depressed, or any other related thing. It is a question that I've had for a long time but have never gotten an answer to that makes sence.

the first thing I came up with was burrowing animals but munkies don't burrow (orangutans if you want to be spasific) and other than that it is so we can hide from problems.

I was curious if any of you amazing people here had a better answer than those?

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carefulCake4976 November 7th, 2016
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@Colin1234

i do it just to avoid everything

sporkchop November 7th, 2016
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Perhaps it's a "back to the womb" thing. When I think of wanting to "crawl into a hole", it's a small, dark, quiet place just big enough for me to curl up into it. I've read that things that remind us (subconsciously, of course, since we have no actual memory of it) of the womb can be comforting.

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