But to certain animals whose eyes can detect ultraviolet light such as birds, rodents, and reindeer they look like "flashing bands of terror," Slate reports.
In a flash of real-life terror, the sight of the fake city skyline here has suddenly become more accurate, not less.
Nightmares are different from night terrors, which typically occur in the first, slow-wave stage of sleep, and which tend to be plotless flashes of panic.
Hardly a week goes by when scenes of terror don't flash across our various screens the maimed and murdered lying in the wake of a truck, bloodied bodies outside a mosque or concert arena.
We'll just have to make do with environmental enemies and the general threat of terror until Hollywood in a flash of inspiration reinvents the movie supervillain.
Simran remembers exactly how she felt when the text flashed up on her phone: the short pang of terror that washed over her body, the sickness rising in her stomach.
With bravura confidence and inventiveness she varies her pace to encompass both lightning flashes of brutality and terror and long stretches of incarcerated ennui.
Between the takers and the 'tooken.' " This is Hip-Hop 101, the hustler's credo: that the undercurrent of terror is just as important to hip-hop capitalism as flash and swagger.
But there's something wrong: she can't bear to be touched, and a flash of red gladioli or a splash of red ink on her sleeve sends her into a paroxysm of terror.
