Afraid of the Dark?

The eerie blackness that blankets our eyes contains so much of our fears.  Every noise accentuated, menacing, maddening, to the point it all its own has created an eerie feeling.  Perhaps in the dark you don't realize someone is watching you, maybe from behind you, maybe through your window, but somewhere, you just know it in your bones.  That feeling crawls to the back of your neck. The darkness that is draped over your entire existence starts manifesting your fears, letting you hear the whispers from the corners of your room you never knew were there, letting you feel the cool touch of someone's hand on your shoulder you know isn't there and you question yourself because the darkness is everywhere you look.

You ask what is real and what isn't but these questions no longer matter because in the darkness the eerie black that fills every corner of your room, everything you fear exists. Everything you are scared to experience begins to manifest itself inside a blackness of pure terror. Your mind starts to wander to the deep recesses of where horror and dread live and you begin to see the flashes of thoughts you so want to ignore.  All your fears are alive.

The darkness begins to construct our fears to fruition and mocks us from within our own existence reaching far into that black that exists to remind us how much we fear to turn off the lights. And every ghost story you've ever heard starts rushing to the forefront of your mind, annoying you to be remembered. It doesn't matter if you believe the stories because in the darkness, none of that matters because those sounds never go away. Those eyes in the window stare at you forever. The cold chill of something standing beside you will forever exist right beneath your skin, taunting you to look, daring you. That darkness you sleep in will always be there to blanket you and remind you why you're afraid of the dark. Fear the unknown? Fear the thoughts that creep in from the depths of darkness. Be wary of the eyes you feel stare at you from behind the blanket of darkness, because they will always be there waiting for you. Be afraid of the dark.