have you ever sit in the dark?

[LordKAT]

That helps. Here we get lightning in the evenings even without clouds that you can see. They call it heat lightning.

[Jeatyn]

oh no no no I couldn't sit in total darkness, not alone anyway. I don't like the dark, and I don't like silence. I have a really over active imagination and I can pretty much give myself panic attacks from the crap I dream up is in the dark

I go to sleep with the TV on, or with music on. I very rarely sleep in silence.

[LordKAT]

Sounds like a person who hasn't learned to be comfortable with themself. I have done that when I don't want to be alone with my thoughts but that is rare since I am ever alone.

[MRH]

Im not a big fan of the dark. I usually sleep with my TV on so theres some light. I tend to hear and see things if im alone in the dark.

[Rock_chick]

I think I'm half vampire...I like being out at night. In fact when I used to go caving, if I got chance I liked to find a comfortable spot, turn off my head torch and sit in the dark listening to the sounds of the cave around me.

[LordKAT]

Vampire hear too. or night owl.

[confused]

well night is where am i at best state of mind , i love it , and i hate direct contact with the sun , i guess that makes me a full vampire  . but i still am afraid of the dark , but since 60-70% of my life is at night , i get to 'face my fears' more often

[justmeinoz]

I like sitting in the dark with the blinds open when there is a thunder storm, or on a humid summer night listening to the frogs etc, in the dam at the back of the neighbour's place.

[Deanna_Renee]

I think I'm half vampire...I like being out at night. In fact when I used to go caving, if I got chance I liked to find a comfortable spot, turn off my head torch and sit in the dark listening to the sounds of the cave around me.

I often prefer the dark to sit and contemplate and meditate. Like a few others have mentioned, it tends to quiet the mind. In fact other than the glow of my computer, the room is dark here.

I had once gone down into a cave that I knew about (rather remote and hardly known, to meditate and play honkyoku (Zen meditation music for shakuhachi) on my shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). I went down into this cave, pretty far in where there was no light filtering in from outside, sat down on the cold stone floor and played Kyorei in complete encompassing darkness. The sound of the flute echoing throughout the space was quite awesome and eerie at the same time. After I finished the piece, I just sat in the quiet and meditated for a while. It quickly got to the point where the dark and the quiet (and perhaps the humidity) began to become quite heavy and physically oppressive. It was actually rather uncomfortable, which surprised me, because I have never feared the dark.

[LordKAT]

The dark in a cave is total and to me felt like being covered in velvet. I still found it comforting but as I rely on sight, it became difficult to navigate in.