Fear Project Experience and Presentation

Today I presented my experiment for the Fear Project and I got the reaction I though I would have from the class.  For my project I gave everyone a single piece of blank white paper and told them they had 3 minutes. That was all I told them, that they had 3 minutes.  The purpose of this experiment was to conquer a fear of my own and help the class face a fear of their own or maybe tell me about it.  The reason i chose to do my experiment this way is because I am personally very fearful of having attention on me, so standing up in front of the class was not something I really wanted to do.  I am also fearful of looking like a colossal ass-bag in front of people (which is what i felt when I just gave you guys the paper without instructions).  After I did the experiment, I realized that none of you probably thought I looked like an idiot standing up there giving you no instructions, but instead you were more concerned with what you need or wanted to do with the paper.  I purposely did not give the class any writing utensils because I didn't necessarily want you to just write something down, I wanted you to face your Fear of the Unknown (like many students do).  I wanted you to do something creative with the paper or maybe even write down something personal or a fear you might have.  After looking through the papers I got back from the class, I found that 3 people decided to make paper airplanes (which i expected), 1 made a paper fold game, 2 folded the paper and I'm not sure what they are suppose to be, 2 didn't even do anything with the paper, most of you either drew and picture or wrote something on the paper or both.  I was surprised to find one crumpled up piece of paper with a list of fears or secrets on it.

After thinking about the experiment I only got a little bit out of a few people of what I really wanted, but I got what I thought would happen from most of you.  In conclusion, my fear of have the spotlight on me is really uncalled for because most people aren't paying attention anyways and even those that are, they're probably thinking about something else.  Most people are predictable when you give them something to do for 3 minutes with instructions.