Similar thing happened to me when I encountered a polar bear. My body did exactly what it was supposed to do while my brain simply went, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
Related to the post, I’ve always been sad that I don’t live places with reptiles like this. I love’em, but I know they’re deadly. I just like seeing them around. But I also don’t have good luck when it comes to seeing things like this. I’ve always lived around rattlesnakes and have seen less than 10 over the course of 40ish years. None since moving out west and I obliviously wander through their turf all the time.
