What is it that makes some of afraid of the dark. I don't mean as a child either. I know I can't be the only adult that has a fear of the darkness. For me I don't believe it's necessarily the dark itsself but what is in the dark that I fear the most. Someone once told me that all I needed to know about the dark would be in the dark itsself and i have taken atleast some small comfort in that but it what I can't see in and of the dark that I fear most. I know it sounds silly especially when my environment and all that I know to be in my surroundings has in no way changed or moved of their own accords to somewhere in my path of 'blind sight'. Perhaps it is this 'blind sight' that has given me an 'all to aware'ness of my surroundings beyond just what I know is there or perhaps or perhaps it is my deeper sense of it all that provokes my fear at the worst possible times.
For example, last night we had a power outage that was caused by some poor sap who decided he needed to take out a friggin power pole with his car just past the curve that lay in the path ahead of him. I actually had an anxiety attack, knowing all to well that having the availability of turning on a light at this point to chase of the all to present shadows away was not a chance and having a flashlight, the backlit glow of my cell phone, and a couple of lighters in my possession were oddly enough of little to no comfort. Like the backlit glow of a cell phone is really going to keep the shadows at bay if a shadow really want to display it's deeds....
Have we become so dependant on electricity that if we cannot feel it flowing through our homes and what not that we have forgotten what its like not to have electricity? Such as in the pioneer days and days before it? What did people do before electricity to keep the shadows away? Would and did they actually risk burning their homes down by keeping the fires burning throughout the night or did they rely on their faiths that everything would be ok and that it was ok to snuff out the fires?
Tags: Fear Dark Darkness The Unknown
