Are any of you afraid of the dark?

StevieNicksFan · 01-09-2011 1:02pm #1

Slightly embarrassing but i'm 22 and i'm still afraid of the dark! It's not usually every night, but on occasions where i'm watching some true crime doc which scares the hell out of me, I find it very hard to sleep and jump at every noise! For example, last night I had to keep my bedroom door open (as the light was on in the landing) as I had just read this: http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/annabelle_possessed_doll.htm

And even more sad is any time I go to a wake, I get really freaked out at night afterwards

Anyone on boards have this childhood fear?

cosmicfart · 01-09-2011 1:04pm

what a fookin weed

Reamer Fanny · 01-09-2011 1:05pm

StevieNicksFan wrote: »

Slightly embarrassing but i'm 22 and i'm still afraid of the dark! It's not usually every night, but on occasions where i'm watching some true crime doc which scares the hell out of me, I find it very hard to sleep and jump at every noise! For example, last night I had to keep my bedroom door open (as the light was on in the landing) as I had just read this: http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/annabelle_possessed_doll.htm

And even more sad is any time I go to a wake, I get really freaked out at night afterwards

Anyone on boards have this childhood fear?

Sack up

stupidusername · 01-09-2011 1:06pm

stop going to wakes, and reading / watching crime things!

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:07pm

It's ok I'm afraid of the dark too. I always sleep with fairy lights around my bed, it's very pretty and it works.

cosmicfart · 01-09-2011 1:08pm

Leelaa22 wrote: »

It's ok I'm afraid of the dark too. I always sleep with fairy lights around my bed, it's very pretty and it works.

what a fookin weed

Kojak · 01-09-2011 1:08pm

OP, go around wearing a blindfold for a few weeks - that should cure you of your fear

TheZohanS · 01-09-2011 1:08pm

I worry about the future of this country sometimes...

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:09pm

cosmicfart wrote: »

what a fookin weed

Is that the only sentence you know? Try some intelligent input.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 01-09-2011 1:10pm

I'd be ashamed of myslef if I were

Cill Dara Abu · 01-09-2011 1:12pm

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjfx-LifQgo

cosmicfart · 01-09-2011 1:12pm

Leelaa22 wrote: »

Is that the only sentence you know? Try some intelligent input.

/\/\/\Humongous Duffus Weed/\/\/\

WinstonOno · 01-09-2011 1:14pm

StevieNicksFan wrote: »

Slightly embarrassing but i'm 22 and i'm still afraid of the dark! It's not usually every night, but on occasions where i'm watching some true crime doc which scares the hell out of me, I find it very hard to sleep and jump at every noise! For example, last night I had to keep my bedroom door open (as the light was on in the landing) as I had just read this: http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/annabelle_possessed_doll.htm

And even more sad is any time I go to a wake, I get really freaked out at night afterwards

Anyone on boards have this childhood fear?

larry murphy is out of prison and on the loose, just thought id let you know

Saila · 01-09-2011 1:14pm

jesus thats sad, sorry but it is!

Chuck Stone · 01-09-2011 1:14pm

Don't stress over it OP. Everyone has fears.

StevieNicksFan · 01-09-2011 1:15pm

Saila wrote: »

jesus thats sad, sorry but it is!

I know it is! :pac:

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:15pm

Puts the sh!ts up me all right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8WflhUas8

up for anything · 01-09-2011 1:18pm

I'm more than twice your age and I'm still afraid of the dark. I've gotten braver since I had children (because you have to woman up when you have kids) but I'm still just as scared. When I was in my teens if my mother wanted garlic for the dinner she had to go down to my bedroom and get it from where it hung over the window and door. People used to laugh at me once I was married and had the husband permanently in the bed with me and ask how could I be afraid when he was there. They obviously didn't have to stay awake half the night when there was a full moon and check the palms of his hands for hair growing. It sounds silly now but that's the way it was/is. Nowadays though I'm just as scared of waking up and finding a stranger in my room as I am a vampire or Frankenstein.

I can't understand though why my daughter shatters crystal chandeliers when she sees a spider in her room or why people have a fear of rats (nice furry creatures that they are). Most people have some phobia and if you can't get over it, it's a matter of finding a way to live with it so it doesn't take over. I have a keyring fob with a little torch on it which I keep beside the bed in case there's a power cut during the night and I wake up in the dark. The way I feel in the dark is much the way I imagine I'd feel if I was buried alive.

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:19pm

cosmicfart wrote: »

/\/\/\Humongous Duffus Weed/\/\/\

Duffus? you really use that word? Like oh my god that's like totally you know like soooooooo not cool.

Somebody please get cosmicfart a thesaurus.

Plazaman · 01-09-2011 1:20pm

Watch out for the Bogeyman under your bed too.

Although you should be safe for a few days as he had root canal yesterday, is on antibiotics and not allowed out until Monday.

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The King of Moo · 01-09-2011 1:20pm

Occasionally yeah, if I'm alone in the house at night, and have watched something a bit scary.

I wouldn't be bothered about it, it's an instinctive reaction.
I don't believe in ghosts, goblins or even ghoulies, but it's natural to sometimes get that little pang of fear, and once you get it it can last for a little while.

stupidusername · 01-09-2011 1:20pm

Saila wrote: »

jesus thats sad, sorry but it is!

why's it sad to have a fear of something? lots of people have fears over things, it's hardly sad. irrational mostly, but not sad.

cosmicfart · 01-09-2011 1:24pm

Leelaa22 wrote: »

Duffus? you really use that word? Like oh my god that's like totally you know like soooooooo not cool.

Somebody please get cosmicfart a thesaurus.

Did u just put ur D4 hat on there with that reply

u sound like college student with to much time on ur hands man

ScumLord · 01-09-2011 1:24pm

I'm not afraid of the dark but I am afraid of stubbing my toe on something while fumbling around in the dark.

What I find helps is to assert my dominance like a chimp or gorilla just before going to bed, this would involve jumping around the room, bouncing off walls, breaking branches, grunting loudly and beating my chest. It seems to scare off any ghouls.

Saila · 01-09-2011 1:25pm

stupidusername wrote: »

why's it sad to have a fear of something? lots of people have fears over things, it's hardly sad. irrational mostly, but not sad.

to be 22 and be afraid of the dark in your room, with other people there too, not fears in general!

stupidusername · 01-09-2011 1:27pm

Saila wrote: »

to be 22 and be afraid of the dark in your room, with other people there too, not fears in general!

yeah...like most fears, they're irrational.

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:29pm

I think it only happened once that I was up all night scared of the dark. I was in my old house with my bf and it was really late when we went to bed and he wont sleep with any lights on which is normally fine for me when I've got a boy in the bed (because in my mind they can slay anything that comes through the window or door(even though the only time something frightening did happen outside when I had a boy in the bed, it was me getting up to deal with it!!)).
That night I was so tired my mind played tricks on me and I saw shadows at the window that weren't there. So I spent the whole night huddled into his chest and every now and again I kept peaking over his shoulder to the window to make sure there was nothing there. Was not fun.

kfallon · 01-09-2011 1:29pm

When I have The Fear from the drink I am afraid of the dark, I had to sleep with the light on the other night so the fella with rats for eyes and his spiders coudn't climb into me bed :eek:

foxyboxer · 01-09-2011 1:31pm

I think it's a rational evolutionary fear to be uncomfortable with darkness (Predators used to eat us). The majority of people grow out of it but it might be worth seeking help if it becomes a major problem.

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:34pm

cosmicfart wrote: »

Did u just put ur D4 hat on there with that reply u sound like college student with to much time on ur hands man

Haha you don't even know what I'm saying "man", awh bless that is cute. I was trying to converse with you on your level with words like "duffus". I'm sorry did I not dumb myself down enough? I'll do better next time I promise.

It BeeMee · 01-09-2011 1:35pm

They mostly come at night.... mostly....

jester77 · 01-09-2011 1:38pm

Saw this movie a while back, you should check it out, turn up the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFE4lGvRt8E

Ben Moore · 01-09-2011 1:42pm

There are reasons to be afraid of everything which is why we should be afraid of nothing.
I used to be afraid of the dark but it may have had something to do with my older siblings covering me with a duvet and not letting me out.
"Don't dark me" I would say from underneath.
For years I needed the hall light so sleep on as well.
But it was a childhood fear I faced by covering myself with the duvet when alone and eventually the darkness did not bother me.

I could go on and on about this subject but I'm afraid I have to finish.

cosmicfart · 01-09-2011 1:42pm

Leelaa22 wrote: »

Haha you don't even know what I'm saying "man", awh bless that is cute. I was trying to converse with you on your level with words like "duffus". I'm sorry did I not dumb myself down enough? I'll do better next time I promise.

no, sorry, I havent a clue about trollish language which is ur native tounge yes? please provide more material say as to converse with asap

Regards,

Nobody.

Little Miss Lady · 01-09-2011 1:44pm

No, not afraid of the dark.
Actually can't sleep with any kind of light on..
But I'll confess the odd time I do look under my bed

seamus · 01-09-2011 1:49pm

My 29 year old mate, who's a former MMA fighter and lives out in the sticks where there is no street lighting, is afraid of the dark.

I guess it depends on the person

INEEDANID · 01-09-2011 1:52pm

If you leave the door open things are more likely to come in and get you:eek:

Leelaa22 · 01-09-2011 1:58pm

INEEDANID wrote: »

If you leave the door open things are more likely to come in and get you:eek:

too true that's why I close my door then open my window(quick escape)

Siuin · 01-09-2011 2:11pm

Pfft, I'm not afraid of the dark...

... but I DO run extra fast down the stairs at night ... just in case...

later12 · 01-09-2011 2:18pm

I don't so much have a fear of the dark as much as specific locations in the dark.

When I was a baby, Dessie O Hare, "the border fox" the murderer who once cut off a dentist's fingers, slept in a derelict house on our farm and held up a local man at gunpoint.

Stories of the event when I was growing up always filled me with dread that "the border fox" was coming back to catch us (a threat my parents employed with wild abandon) and I still can't walk into an outhouse or a shed at night without thinking of him. Even his name gives me the creeps, and I believe he is out of prison now.

If you're reading this Dessie, you owe us some rent.

nacho libre · 01-09-2011 2:41pm

Yes. I always sleep under the bed clothes just in case...

LeeHoffmann · 01-09-2011 2:43pm

I'm in my mid-late 20's and still afraid of the dark (only the pitch black dark though). Truly puts me to shame and only my nearest and dearest (and er...you good folks) know it. I've been attacked a few times when asleep in the dark etc so I don't think my fear is too irrational. Pitch darkness scares me because I'm more vulnerable to attack. I deal with it better now but I leave the blind a little up at night so there's a smidgen of moonlight coming through the window. I don't think it's that big a deal unless it's really interfering with your life OP.

Dennis the Stone · 01-09-2011 2:46pm

My grandmother used to say she was afraid of the darkies.

later12 · 01-09-2011 3:04pm

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

I've been attacked a few times when asleep in the dark etc so I don't think my fear is too irrational. Pitch darkness scares me because I'm more vulnerable to attack.

Are you a ninja?

hondasam · 01-09-2011 3:07pm

Yes sometimes I am.

stovelid · 01-09-2011 3:07pm

I have been watching your house and I'm going to kill you later under cover of darkness.

Acoshla · 01-09-2011 3:09pm

I'm 26 and have a crazy fear of the dark, completely irrational, getting worse with age!

Aodan83 · 01-09-2011 3:10pm

I'm not scared of the dark. I'm scared of what hides in the dark!

Kerrydude1981 · 01-09-2011 3:15pm

Im scared of the dark too,I sleep with a gun in the bed just in case the dark tries anything

StevieNicksFan · 01-09-2011 3:29pm

stovelid wrote: »

I have been watching your house and I'm going to kill you later under cover of darkness.

I was thinking that was you over there....p.s. your fly is open

CrazyRabbit · 01-09-2011 3:54pm

Little Miss Lady wrote: »

No, not afraid of the dark.
Actually can't sleep with any kind of light on..
But I'll confess the odd time I do look under my bed

I'm not under your bed. I'm in the attic, looking down on you through a hole in the ceiling.

As for myself, I'm a night owl and love being in the dark. I'll quite happily walk around in pitch darkness at night (like if I get up to get a drink/use the toilet). I've excellent night vision.

And there is something very relaxing about being outside in an open field during the night, with just some moonlight. I remember being about 13 and staying down in Rosslare. As a dare, my mates and I decided to sleep in an old derelict church on top of the old (empty) stone graves. I think I was the only one that actually slept that night.

Bring on the darkness!!!

Are any of you afraid of the dark?

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