What makes black so anxious?

• Black is silence: it exacerbates hearing and amplifies noises (of footsteps, birds, wind, etc.).
• Black is separation and isolation: you find yourself alone with yourself, your thoughts, your dreams, your fears, your anxieties.
• Black is stillness: the position is fixed, as when one is dead.
• Black is the discovery of one’s body, of one’s sexuality.
• Darkness is waiting: we wait to fall asleep, while wondering what others are doing, especially parents.
• Black is distortion: everything is transformed, the objects become strange or even disturbing.

The fear of the dark, like many other fears, can be explained by their usefulness in the natural environment: natural selection has naturally favored men who are cautious in the face of danger. A man who wouldn’t know the fear of the dark

The fear of the dark, commonplace, should not be confused with the real phobia of darkness, which is characterized by the intense fear it causes. It has serious repercussions on the child’s life (sleep disorders, nightmares, the urgent need to sleep with the parents) and requires real environmental adjustments such as opening doors, the presence of a night light. , the change of room …

I’m afraid of the dark (we can’t see anything and it’s done on purpose)

They make me believe (that there is nothing but it’s not even true)

I’m afraid of the dark (I can’t help it, I didn’t do it on purpose)

You have to believe me (so far everything is fine but after)

I hear scratching under the box spring

Like crawling spiders

By hundreds and by thousands

It must be a sound that runs here

What I am always told

A bearded monster

With eyes on worm-eaten nails

Patient lurking in the shadows

But it’s me who unblocks here

What I am being told

It’s when everything goes out

That it starts to scroll

Witches, elves invade the floor

but it’s me who’s losing control

How people talk to me

I’m afraid of the dark byAldebert