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an existential distress, spatial uncertainty, loss of orientation. Where am I going in this building? Everything looks the same. And it's a fear of being permanently suspended in a transitional state without a resolution. Let me drop it. And another, apparently it's a very popular fear, or a phobia, I should say, is automatonophobia. And this is a fear of animatronics, mannequins, wax figures. And the core physical mechanism here is the uncanny valley. So you get cognitive dissonance from imperfect human replication. This is why I never knew it at the time, but I had a friend that was absolutely terrified of Chuck E. Cheese. And I realize now that he had a phobia of automatons, right? You know the old Chuck E. Cheese. I mean, some of those things, you didn't have to make them scary for them to be sort of terrifying in a way. But I bought it for him.