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Being in the dark - literally
IzzyS
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Since I was a teenager I've enjoyed sitting in the dark, not as in not knowing things but literally in the dark, like at home when I draw my curtains and not switch any lights on.
I remember at work once, someone wanting in to get something after I'd locked up, so I went in to retrieve it and they said something like 'you must be comfortable in the dark(!)' because I hadn't switched the lights back on but I could see my way well enough, I hadn't thought anything of it.
I think I feel at ease in the dark because I don't feel so self conscious? it doesn't make alot of sense but I guess its something to do with it. I used to try and write in the dark too, I think I feel there's less distractions and I can get on with things better when there's less light.
I thought that was one of my quirks but are others the same?.
I remember at work once, someone wanting in to get something after I'd locked up, so I went in to retrieve it and they said something like 'you must be comfortable in the dark(!)' because I hadn't switched the lights back on but I could see my way well enough, I hadn't thought anything of it.
I think I feel at ease in the dark because I don't feel so self conscious? it doesn't make alot of sense but I guess its something to do with it. I used to try and write in the dark too, I think I feel there's less distractions and I can get on with things better when there's less light.
I thought that was one of my quirks but are others the same?.
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You can tell when those times are cos my typing is crap.
I sleep with a lamp and tv on. I have intermittent stages of bravery, but I can't relax or find peace of mind in the dark.
You keep the TV on all night? with the sound muted? that would definitely keep me up.
The growing dark does actually make me feel a little bit low in mood.
I find it difficult to watch some movies without it being dark(ish). The sun can create glare and reflections on the TV screen.
I remember this was quite an issue when I was younger, as there were alot of family movies in the 1980s that were quite dimly lit.
No, that would make me glum
My son on the other hand puts the light on out of what can only be habit - first thing in the morning when it's bright sunshine and there's absolutely no need.
If I wake in the night and go to get a drink I never put the light on, I quite like wandering around the house in the dark especially as my son's Lego days are over and I won't stand on a piece by accident.
I can't sleep without a TV or radio on.. I have literally been awake until 3/4am lying in bed and not been able to get asleep, turned the TV on and got straight off.. Obviously it's more a state of mind than a physical thing but I think I tend to over think things if I don't have something to distract me
I love being in the dark too, if i need to make a difficult decision I will go and sit in my bathroom with the lights off and just think, it's very calming I find
My own grandmother never turned an electric light on in her whole life. Even when they got electric light a few years before she died she would sit in the dark if my grandfather was not home to turn it on.
Eh...........
*runs*
It hurts my eyes looking at a screen/computer/TV with no other lights on now though. So now I have a lamp.
..If you don't know what song those lyrics are from you shouldn't have been born.
It's the first thing I do, I can't think straight until I have found a light switch. I always get that creepy feeling of being watched by loads of pairs of eyes, that I'm not alone. The house, the room instantly feels different once the light is on. Sounds so silly.
I can take or leave it. The other half always watches TV in the lounge at night in pitch dark - the first thing I do when I walk in is turn on the dimmer switch a little.
I remember when they turned all the lights out when we were in one of the caves at Cheddar Gorge. That was total blackness and a little unnerving.
Yep. There was a power cut when we were in a salt mine in Poland. I nearly cacked myself.
I used to do that too, have the door left ajar. Nowadays I wouldn't do that incase the dog came upstairs and nudged it fully open - that would wake me up in the middle of the night.
I have that issue when im abroad or staying somewhere else sometimes. It can be hard to drift off to sleep properly without some sort of, I suppose recognisable noise or something your used to hearing. As a child, I found it almost impossible to get to sleep with no noise in the background and if it was something unfamiliar then that would scare me, I could imagine it would be some monster or whatever out there and stay awake because of that - ah, kids(!) :rolleyes: