• sigroid75 said on Sep 30, 2006....

  fear is not childish. fear is evil.
  
  if i may ask, do you watch horror films?
  
  im not afraid of the dark. in fact, when i was i child,
  i used to scare the hell out of my mom. it is because
  i was raised without being told by my parents that
  the dark is something to be afraid of. they never scared
  me. so i grew up not fearing the dark.
  
  however, even with that, i dont dare watch horror films.
  these ugly pictures embed themselves in our subscionscious
  and these scare us when the apt times come.
  
  do stay away from scary stuff.. it will help you.:-)
  

• 004275 said on Oct 01, 2006....

  Yes , I think same you I'm afraid dark very much. Because it's will I think everythings which happened in a future.
  

• Uocjat said on Oct 01, 2006....

  i used to be scared as hell of the dark
  back in my early days i couldnt even walk the meter and ahalf from my doorway to the wall where the switch was if it was dark
  but somehow i managed to overcome it .. maybe even too much .. sometimes i feel more safe in the shadows then bright light .. not sure why but hey atleast im not scared shitless anymore
  
  one thing you could do though is to try and get use to the dark
  start out slow by sitting in a dimly lit room or by candle light - later moveing on to a complitely dark room -
  and when you feel like running for the switch try and force your self not too even if just for a few seconds
  at some point it'll take longer and longer before you feel the need to turn on the light
  
  might not be the most plesent way to deal with it but it works
  i did something like it with spiders - always hated them
  im still not loveing them but atleast i dont have to go sleep in the liveing because i think i saw one anymore
  

• brakn2 said on Oct 01, 2006....

  People have weird fears. my sister is terrified of thunder. I am afraid of spiders and of being watched. my dad is afraid of deep water even though he can swim. everyone has these weird fears. i used to be afraid of the dark but after a while i just kindof got so tired of being afraid of it that i stopped. i was like "whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen but fuck this i'm going to sleep." I think that's how we overcome our fears. we get so fed up with them that we just push through them and overcome them. granted i haven't conquered all my fears yet but eventually i will.
  

• momsrock said on Oct 01, 2006....

  I agree that scary movies magnify the problem. Even if you aren't scared immediately after watching it, eventually it all comes back to you.
  
  I was actually terrified of losing control of my car and ending up in water... and bridges in general for the same reason. It has never happened and it has never almost happened but I was terrified of it. I was stuck in construction, surrounded by cars and cement barriers on a bridge. I could feel it vibrating from all of the big trucks and I flipped out. But not being able to get out of the situation and having to sit through it, made the fear disappear. So I think there is a lot of truth to what brakn2 is saying.
  

• U-Know-U-Love-Me said on Jun 16, 2009....

  Wow. It makes me feel better that I'm not the only one. When I was a kid I would freak if i was left in the dark by myself, I would always end up in my parents bed by morning. But I guess I got over it, for a little while at least. Then when I was 13 one of my best guy friends introduced me to the movie "Child's Play." You know the one with the doll Chucky. haha It all went down hill from there. I might be crazy and a little loopy but even a year and a half later I still sometimes have to check in the closets and under the bed to make sure that "he" isn't there. I guess we all just have these fears that we cant get over. Being in a room alone while its dark is mine.

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