Depths of darkness

Day and Night.

Light and Dark.

Most people associate the dark with the night. This doesn’t simply end with the absence of light, but has also become known for the place where all things sinister belong. Thus, becoming The Darkness.

Have you ever wondered why it is that people sleep at night?

Science boasts of evolution and genetics. Our eyes, our senses and our bodies were not made to function in the dark.

Which easily makes for understanding, why the night is so feared.

Humans fear what they don’t know…. what they can’t see…. what they can’t anticipate.

They have come to trust their sciences. They believe that they have advanced enough and explained enough, for them to trust that there is no logical reason, to fear the night.

Humans are funny. They will call you crazy if you believe otherwise.

Yet none will ever admit, that at the slightest of sounds, you jump in your boots and the quietest of whispers will make your skin crawl. You will hear voices in the wind when no one is around. Or so you think.

Are you really alone?

Are you so sure of your sciences and promised safety, of society’s notions?

Tell me… when you enter a room at night and the light won’t turn on, … why does your hair stand on end?

Why does every fiber of your being tell you to leave, to dash from this place and to not return, until the safe cascade of light returns your sight?

Do you know?

Hmph

Most don’t. Nor will they even speculate.

But trust me, however imperceptible to your eyes it may seem, your fear…. has a very real reason to exist……

……. You just can’t see it ……...

.…… YET……...

This fear you feel; it is only a precursor. It’s a warning, of something to come, of the things that lurk just beyond the normal sight of humans.

At least… that’s the case when you’re awake.

When you sleep, however, it’s a very different story.

That is the time when the vail between them and humans is at its weakest. This is because when the human mind is awake, it has difficulties perceiving what it doesn’t understand. Their world and everything about them, is foreign to us. Our conscious brains deem them as abstract objects, causing issues with our ability to process their existence’s.

Our brain’s subconscious abilities are much vaster. This part of our brain is not limited by what we’ve been taught. Rather, it is an extension of our own existence and everything we feel and/ or sense. It goes beyond what we know, especially that which we aren’t willing to admit….

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Do you ever feel vulnerable while you sleep?

....... Naked?

....... Like you’ve been exposed?

…….. or maybe …. Like you’re being watched?

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You probably are.

Are you scared?

....... Like I said before…. You should be!

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Sleep, dreams, the dark and the night. All existences intertwined. All constantly evolving. Their stories seen as things of legends and myths today. They were thought to come from folklore and tales, of things feared…. things unknown; a way to shine light on all the shadows of the unexplained. However, what if they weren’t?

What if they weren’t tales of the unknown?

But facts?

Stories of the survivors?

The fighters, the ones who didn’t get claimed?

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Would you believe me if I told you that wasn’t even the half of it?

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BOO!

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Hmph. It’s okay. I may be laughing at your misfortune, but that doesn’t mean you have to believe me. No one ever does. Not until your screams fill the misty night…. Not to be heard by anyone…. As they echo out beyond the reach of your physical body, or that of anyone around…. At least not anyone you would want to have hear them. Except for me that is. I am not evil, however, nor am I vindictive. I will still help you. I hear you. I’m coming to you. Just hold on.

I know you fear, but you are not alone and fret not, I do not refer to the evil you are seeing when I say this. I am coming to send them away.

When it is over, you will awake. You will remember…. for a short time.

Then you will move on. You will forget.

You will think this nothing more, than today’s notion of a nightmare.

You will go back to your life.

You won’t remember me.

Me?

I will go back to my home, invisible to everyone, I will lock myself away and see if day 1086, finally brings me a restful sleep…. Alone…. Hopefully without your demons following for once.