the dark?

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does anyone else panic when its dark, when i say dark i mean like when its pitch black, although travelling in the dark by car is also quite panic inducing.

Hey, this is FUN!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_the_dark

Although I realise I'm probably not being very helpful this time.

haha this is quite funny, as long as it keeps us preoccupide, im mostly on here because im bored at the moment, but thank you for your help, although i probably knew most of that about the dark.

this one i dont think a actually have, i think one phobia is enough for the time being, and i dont really get panic attacks in the dark like i would when faced with my actual fear.

When it is pitch black, I kind of 'surrender' to it. I imagine I am an entity in a void or something and take in the experience. if I am in a situation which is scary, I usually also surrender to it, and feel it, and think 'whatever happens happens, and if I die, then I will know'

I once had an extremely vivid dream in which I was in a car which went through a rail and plunged over a cliff. I totally believed I was going to die. My last thoughts?
"Holy crap, this is REALLY IT!! I am really about to see what happens after I die!" No fear, just intense fascination.
But then I woke up. Bummer.

Well, I suppose I should say something a bit more qualitative at some point. All I can really say though is that I'm not really a phobic person at all. I have a very low "disgust" threshold so I behave pretty phobically towards slimy things like slugs and old food, but it's not actually fear induced. However, I have panicked in the dark once or twice, mostly after working myself up with some kind of paranoia. I also used to have major dermatophagia as mentioned in your other post (http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt223384.html) so I've put another response re. that bit there.

No, I don't think I needed that since it didn't really seem anxiety induced to me. It all started with biting my nails from a very young age and my mother was forever trying to make me stop. At some point she succeeded and I just moved on to the skin around my fingers instead. She either didn't notice or didn't care so much about that so it continued for years and I didn't mind either even though the tips of my fingers were often red-raw. I think it finally stopped when I started horticulture - mud ingrained skin turns out to be a major disincentive!

Nowadays I tend to pick at scars and scratches, of which I have many due to my beautiful, frisky monster cat who's sitting on top of my left hand right now (he always likes to sit on his prey for a while before trying to eat it).

haha, sitting on your hand, i have 3 cats and i dont think any of them have sat on my hand, they do like to scratch though, but only to play.

The dark....

I vaguely remember a cutscene from Splinter Cell: Conviction in which Sam tells his daughter that darkness can be an ally.

I tend to lean towards that sentiment as I am usually awake at night and asleep during the day to the point where my day is like everyone else's night.

I use a moonlight simulating LED for a nightlight, it projects a spot as bright as the full moon on a clear night.
When the electicity flickers it goes out and has to be reset. If the light is out when I wake up in the middle of the night I end up with my head under the covers.
I know that is silly but it lets me get back to sleep.