Darkness magnifies every melancholy thought and imaginary fear. Is it because we all have a tendency towards claustrophobia? We need space around us. Darkness does not allow us that. It seeps into everything and obliterates all sense of space. We feel closed in.
I wonder what it would be like to be enveloped completely by darkness without even the smallest source of light.
In one X-Files episode, Mulder and Scully are stranded on a lake without a torch. Unable to see anything, they decide to stay put till the morning, when they realize they were just five steps from land.
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I guess darkness can be both fearsome and comforting depending on the way you look at it. I suppose that's how it would fee inside your mother's womb. Our fear of darkness could very well be a genetic memory.
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