The Dark

There is a feeling we all experience, it is a feeling of dread and fear. We have all known it at one point or another. This feeling derives from something so simple and so omnipresent in our day to day lives. It is a fear of the dark.

 This fear isn’t solely from being in a dark room or building however. This feeling can come even at a time when you are in a well lit bathroom washing your hair at 9 in the morning. Then you go to get the shampoo out so you close your eyes and begin to remove the soap not wanting to get it in your eyes because it burns. Next thing you know you have this feeling that your have to hurry because you can’t see anything. You wonder to yourself if someone will be looking at you when your eyes open. In a panic you race to be able to open your eyes, though you do not know why it all of a sudden came over you to be frightened.  You know that you are alone but your heart still races because you are scared that when you finally open your eyes, something or someone will be starting at you.

This can be especially frightening at night. Picture yourself lying in your own bed. You just put down your book and shut the lights off because you feel your eyes getting heavy. However as you lay there in the silence of the dark like all other nights, suddenly something is different. Your eyes are not heavy, but actually more open. You feel your heart rate increase as you peer around the room. You know you are alone but it seems like the darkness is moving. 

Why do such feelings happen? Are they just our inner child remembering what things were like when we didn’t have an understanding of the world? Perhaps it is just some slow on setting paranoia from the day’s events?  What about the more terrifying choice? What if it is actually our senses reacting to something that was not there? Maybe it could be an entity that we don’t see but completely feel around us. Something that thrives in the dark and even though we fear it, we never actually see it.  Is it all a bunch of childish dread? I don’t know the answer to that one, but I know what I think.

Are you afraid of the dark deep down? Let me know your thoughts of why this dreadful occurrence happens even in grown adults. Tweet me a@Vijayp1982 or comment below.