The sound brings them an adrenaline rush and they think someone may be actively trying to kill them.
For example a war vet was driving me and someone set off firecrackers. He ducked down under the steering wheel and I had to talk him back up. Took a couple minutes with the car stopped in the middle of a busy street to start coming out of survival mode.
I used to get jumpy during fireworks and it didn’t go away until the last 10 years or so. I grew up during a Marxist/capitalist civil war, we used to live close to a military hospital, so you could hear mortar and air defences to try and keep the guerillas away from the area. Mortars sound surprisingly similar to some fireworks.
Also so many helicopters, it was hard to sleep undisturbed.
The sound brings them an adrenaline rush and they think someone may be actively trying to kill them.
For example a war vet was driving me and someone set off firecrackers. He ducked down under the steering wheel and I had to talk him back up. Took a couple minutes with the car stopped in the middle of a busy street to start coming out of survival mode.
I used to get jumpy during fireworks and it didn’t go away until the last 10 years or so. I grew up during a Marxist/capitalist civil war, we used to live close to a military hospital, so you could hear mortar and air defences to try and keep the guerillas away from the area. Mortars sound surprisingly similar to some fireworks. Also so many helicopters, it was hard to sleep undisturbed.