Sprout
Bluelight Crew
Interesting. Why human, and the reasons for the nature of hiding?
Human because your visual cortex can no longer differentiate between animate and inanimate objects, desperately trying to make sense of fragmented signals results in everything being interpreted as a life form, a possible threat, a predator - its the reversion to a primal level of survival instinct in a threatening environment.
The hiding because an assumed threat is now out of sight, like a predator stalking prey. Many thousands of years of evolution has conditioned our brain to use the signals from the strongest sense to get the most information possible - visual data is given precedent. Your brain fires impulses based on the information travelling from the eyes, whether such information is horrendously distorted doesn't make a difference. Very soon everything starts to be perceived as a serious danger by default, quite often branches are interpreted as arms which results in your overworked squishy matter frantically trying to identify the body parts it knows should be attached to the limbs.
If the threat isn't identified then as far as your unconscious survival instincts are concerned you are very soon going to be eaten or brutally murdered.