#LS3E23

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“So it's become very clear that you...well, you don't need me. That's okay, Detective, because with that realization came another. If you don't need me, then we've been working together all this time because you want to. Because you choose to.You did choose me.”

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“I was afraid. Afraid...that you'd want me 'cause you've only seen certain sides of me. That if you saw all of me...knew all of me, you would run away.“

- Lucifer Morningstar, S3E23

Psychology of Lost and the role of emotion

There can be no question that becoming lost is normally accompanied by high emotional arousal, and almost every lost person has confessed to having been upset during their ordeal. All emotional experience is part mental or cognitive and part physiological. The physiological component involves certain glandular secretions (such as sweaty palms or a rush of adrenalin) as well as stimulation of a part of the brain called the limbic system. It is this latter structure where the physiological and cognitive reactions appear to interact. 

When arousal is intense, thoughts tend to scatter in irrelevant directions, making the person unable to concentrate on solving even simple problems. Also, too much arousal can reduce the number of environmental cues the person can perceive, thus interfering with the recognition of familiar objects, people, or places.Fear, of course, is a specific type of emotional reaction, having effects beyond those of general physiological arousal. Fear stimulates a heightened concern for self-preservation, mobilizing the body for flight through the secretion of adrenalin and increased blood supply to the legs. It's no wonder, therefore, that the lost person's impulse is to move rather than stay put — this is exactly what his/her body is telling him/her to do. Fear — like general arousal — interferes with higher mental functioning, such as concentration and problem solving, and may cause a regression to more “primitive” modes of thought. 

From: K. A. Hill (1998), Lost Person Behavior. Ottawa, Canada: National SAR Secretariat.

Is this what Chloe is experiencing as season 4 starts?

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A real fanboy:)

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A quiet night in might no be Lucifer’s first choice of a fun evening, but perhaps it’s more of him not having ever experienced it and fearing to come across as boring as he seem to take to it like a duck to water, at least when he’s invited to a game of monopoly with Chloe and Trixie. He denies it, of course, but you can really see how much he loved sharing that moment with the Decker ladies. 

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Right, Lucifans?

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Talking from personal experience, Chloe? 

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