This is something that most people will be afraid of experiencing: fear of the night, unlike the fear of childhood, this is a fear that many people have never been able to get rid of.
Some fears are formed by some special life experiences or innate birth. But for the fear of darkness, it appears in the extreme form of darkness horror, and he belongs more to the latter in this category. The reason is: In fact, it is not the darkness that causes fear, fear comes from the mask of darkness. Darkness makes us feel more susceptible to injury, it is insecure and full of some hidden dangers of uncertainty.
In the long river of human history, darkness means danger and fear, it means we must prevent it and ensure safety.
But it is no longer like this, when we sleep safely in bed for hours, there is nothing scary about the darkness. But as a terrible manifestation of unknown darkness still holds a place in our hearts. In other words, our brains equate darkness with things with infinite possibilities, which is very terrible.
In a foreign survey report, nearly 40% of respondents said they were afraid to walk around the house when the lights were turned off. In fact, 10% of respondents said they would not get out of bed and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
In a small study, about half of the participants who claimed to be “sleep poor” also admitted to fear of the darkness, while only one in four participants who claimed to be “sleep good” suggest that in some cases, this fear may be strong enough to cause chronic insomnia.
However, when it comes to bad sleeping habits, it is easy for people to mistakenly regard fear of darkness as other fears or other anxiety. Because once a person cannot fall asleep in the dark, their brains begin to think randomly. They would think, “What if someone broke into my house?” without realizing that these associations just showed their fear of darkness, and they crossed the middle step and directly assumed their fear of the thieves.
Just like other phobia, to overcome the strong fear of darkness, we must first realize our fear of darkness, and face it firmly. If we fight against darkness again and again, we will definitely be able to overcome it.
