Thoughts of a Past Problem
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Okay, I was on of those children who were afraid of the dark, and by afraid, I mean paralyzingly all consuming mortification by the thought of being left in a dark room for an hour. Now, thinking back, it all makes perfect sense why.
First of all, darkness by definition denies us of our most relied upon sense, sight. What is left is an enhance sense of sound, temperature, and feeling. This all goes back to our primitive instincts. When it was dark enough that we could barely see anything, we would use our hearing to identify animals based upon sounds they made. This aided our survival because knowing the difference between the sound of a pig in a bush and a bear in a bush could be dire.
Well, you know what, house noises have no identifiable animal source. The groan of the air conditioner doesn't sound like a cat and the low hum of a fan doesn't sound like a bird. -
You know what they sound like to a child with an over active imagination, they sound like unimaginable horrors bearing down upon you to snatch you in the night and feast upon your flesh like a small child would to some cookies.
Do you know what that singular thought does? As a survival instinct, it increases heart rate, attentiveness, and preps the body for running just in case. So now, a frightened child just lost all of his ability to sleep and guess what? He is still stuck in the room scared as shit and now unable to sleep away his problems.
Now, I wasn't Nieve as a child. I knew the sounds were just the house or cars outside, but you try calming yourself down to that as an 7 year old.
Thinking back, I was just fighting thousands of years of evolutionary honing, no biggie. -
You made some good points but I have a much simpler explanation.
It is not the fear of the dark, it is the fear of what is or could be in it that we can not see.
And as you said, we rely on light for sight a lot. Without it, fear does set in for some.
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UnknownAssassin wrote:
That is what my thought is, our imagination fills the blank space based upon the noises we hear.You made some good points but I have a much simpler explanation.
It is not the fear of the dark, it is the fear of what is or could be in it that we can not see.
And as you said, we rely on light for sight a lot. Without it, fear does set in for some.
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I'm still terrified to go outside alone at night. I live out in the country, and I have a semi-irrational fear of being attacked by an animal in the dark. There's a forest behind us, so who knows what kind of horrors lie beyond the shadows in the night??? 😱
You should see me run to the door when I get home late... 😂😂😂 -
🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Not necessarily the noises. It is the fear of what we do not see or might not know of that causes primitive fears.UnknownAssassin wrote:
That is what my thought is, our imagination fills the blank space based upon the noises we hear.You made some good points but I have a much simpler explanation.
It is not the fear of the dark, it is the fear of what is or could be in it that we can not see.
And as you said, we rely on light for sight a lot. Without it, fear does set in for some.
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UnknownAssassin wrote:
Well if you see a box, it's not open and there is no sound coming from the box what do you assume?🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Not necessarily the noises. It is the fear of what we do not see or might not know of that causes primitive fears.UnknownAssassin wrote:
That is what my thought is, our imagination fills the blank space based upon the noises we hear.You made some good points but I have a much simpler explanation.
It is not the fear of the dark, it is the fear of what is or could be in it that we can not see.
And as you said, we rely on light for sight a lot. Without it, fear does set in for some.
If you see the same box and there is a creaking sound emitting from it what do you assume now? -
Dudes I know right? Are you afraid of the dark from the 90s on nickelodeon was nuts as shit! Getting locked in malls forever, and having a lock of ghost hair, or whatever that show was about?!
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🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Well, my previous statement was a general statement. Seeing a box is one thing, being inside a silent, dark room is another, for some people anyways.UnknownAssassin wrote:
Well if you see a box, it's not open and there is no sound coming from the box what do you assume?🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Not necessarily the noises. It is the fear of what we do not see or might not know of that causes primitive fears.UnknownAssassin wrote:
That is what my thought is, our imagination fills the blank space based upon the noises we hear.✂
And as you said, we rely on light for sight a lot. Without it, fear does set in for some.
If you see the same box and there is a creaking sound emitting from it what do you assume now? -
UnknownAssassin wrote:
Well let's put the same terms on a dark room. One room is completely silent and dark the other is dark and completely silent except for an inexplicable clicking on your right hand side.🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
Well, my previous statement was a general statement. Seeing a box is one thing, being inside a silent, dark room is another, for some people anyways.UnknownAssassin wrote:
✂🔰࿈Ᏸลอ🔥Ᏸεαη࿈🔰 wrote:
✂UnknownAssassin wrote:
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In my mind, while in the silent room, while I am creeped out by the silence, I know I am safe due to the lack of noise. This is not the case with room 2. What could be making the clicking? Only GreenMan could know. -
Yes, many would be scared of that noise. But in the dark room with the noise, they fear something they know for a fact is there. In the silent, dark room some people might be scared by the lack of noise. It is known that animals such as wolves, and so on, make essentially no noise, or at least little to none the human ear can hear, yet are still there. So, people being blind from the darkness can not see what is around them and might be scared at the possibilty of something unseen being there.
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