Evolutionary psychologists would tell you most people are afraid of the dark, even when they are tucked in a bed within a room barred by titanium doors as opposed to sleeping on the floor of Amazon, because somewhere in the unconscious parts of our minds, sometimes coined the Collective Unconscious, we are in tuned to memories far back in time when darkness did seriously propose a certain and actual danger from nocturnal animals and reptiles, and being in fear of them, as humans bargained for most things that makes them physically impressive in return to a big damn brain was inevitable and obvious.

But many experts suggest a much closer to hand-and-home reason at bay, and I concur.

Human beings are separated and furthered themselves away from so many natural things that this hardly seems to be in anyways news at all, but just a finger pointing towards the right direction. To put simply, where exactly is darkness? Darkness that is created through the natural rotation of our planet and according to which many important biological systems are based from constructive hormonal balances (imbalances of which give outcomes right from premature wrinkles to cancer) and screwing up of Circadian rhythms which is a central source of balance towards all areas of physical and mental health, is being whisked away into the oblivion by consistent carousing in artificial sources of luminosity that is degrading every natural form of equilibrium within our bodies and mindsets that have developed after millions of years of evolution and adaptation. The increasing, if not heavily accelerating, and excessive, usage of lights after the darkening of the horizons and skies is one of the most important factors in not only the uncanny and unrequited need to be more paranoid of darkness, but also unlike most things nature provides, a lack of touching something pure and serene and aesthetically overpowering in the most harmonious regard – the essence of finding true darkness, pitch and engulfing black all around, to find and breathe in the non existence of color and light and understanding the healing it processes.

The beauty it promises, devoid of sensory reactions, like a deletion of unnecessary sources of noise, a powerful silence of all conditioned emotions, doubtlessly rendering fear in those uninitiated and delusional – is but very natural.