Why is darkness scary?

[Icehearted]

I doesn't afraid the dark.

Actually, I prefer darkness, I prefer the night to the day, the "gloom" to the sunlight, the shadows to the light. Some say that's just symptomatic of my condition, I might agree to an extent, but I also think it's just part of my personality.

 

[ninjajoeman]

the reason is probobly because white guys are afraid of black guys that might be hiding in the dark and then your saying well what about black guys being afraid of the dark well they are afraid that they won't be able to see themselves. (I know its racist but I couldn't think of any other reason except that they fear the unknown and/or are republican) =]

 

[UAProxy]

Every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark - except it's not irrational...

...it's Vashta Nerada.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Curses.

DONNA NOBLE HAS LEFT THE LIBARY. DONNA NOBLE HAS BEEN SAVED.

HEY, WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?

 

[Space Spoons]

It's not the darkness itself, it's what might be lurking in said darkness.

 

[Zildjin81]

Well darkness isn't really scary the unknown is.

 

[Darth Pope]

All fear stems from the unknown. Seeing as how darkness is the unknown in it's most literal form it sort of makes sense to me.

 

[Hazy]

It's not necessarily the Dark itself, per se. More so the fact that humans HATE the unknown. With a passion.

 

[Radeonx]

It's not necessarily the Dark itself, per se. More so the fact that humans HATE the unknown. With a passion.

I don't. But then again, I'm the ninja god.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

there is no point in fearing the darkness, just fear what's hiding inside of it.

My sentiments exactly. Whenever I'm in 'that' mood and I look at dark rooms I feel like something is watching me. Whenever I am in the other mood I am the thing in the darkness watching other things >_>

 

[Ghonzor]

Because sometimes, there are ninjas in the dark.
And if you've ever had a ninja jump out at you, you'd better be scared.

Pretty much this

 

[Hazy]

It's not necessarily the Dark itself, per se. More so the fact that humans HATE the unknown. With a passion.

I don't. But then again, I'm the ninja god.

Funny you should say that. Because as you see, underneath all of my hockey masks and sporty jackets, I look like this:

To answer what you're probably thinking right now: Yes. It is, in fact, on.

 

[Radeonx]

It's not necessarily the Dark itself, per se. More so the fact that humans HATE the unknown. With a passion.

I don't. But then again, I'm the ninja god.

Funny you should say that. Because as you see, underneath all of my hockey masks and sporty jackets, I look like this:

To answer what you're probably thinking right now: Yes. It is, in fact, on.

You know, we could, and don't think of this as blasphemy, work together. To fight the robots. Fucking robots, they made my toast not toasty!

 

[Hazy]

It's not necessarily the Dark itself, per se. More so the fact that humans HATE the unknown. With a passion.

I don't. But then again, I'm the ninja god.

Funny you should say that. Because as you see, underneath all of my hockey masks and sporty jackets, I look like this:
-Snip-

To answer what you're probably thinking right now: Yes. It is, in fact, on.

You know, we could, and don't think of this as blasphemy, work together. To fight the robots. Fucking robots, they made my toast not toasty!

[small]Fighting the robots, I mean.[/small]

 

[AOTA]

although pretty much all of this has been said already...

We fear the darkness because we can see what is in it, therefore making it unknown.
since, in the beginning of our species, we were not always on the top of the food chain, it became our natural instinct to fear something unknown. since we can see in the dark it is automatically unknown to use and thus instinctively scary.

 

[Cody211282]

because you cant see anything and you dont know what is there if you cant see it

 

[Doktor Merkwurdigliebe]

It dates back to the times when we were busy thinking how to operate a stick, and there were a lot of nasty things hiding in the night. Therefore instinct helped us hide like cowards in our caves and gave us a possibility of actually surviving the night. Fear of the dark is something, that we got from our ancestors - they needed it back then more then we now, but it is still useful with things like developing childhood traumas.

 

[crudus]

I personally think it is evolutionary. People don't want to go where they are uncomfortable so if the dark makes them uncomfortable then (cavemen) will stay in the cave at night with light. If there was a caveman that liked or didn't mind the dark then he/she will quickly die.

 

[Sgtkillalot0]

A. Becuase people do not like not knowing things (hidden in darkness)
B. Becuase 'Heaven' is signified as 'the light', and 'Hell' is 'dark and evil'

 

[Shadowfaze]

Darkness is scary because humans naturally fear the unknown.

 

[stone0042]

The majority of fears stem from an aversion to the unknown, the intimidating and the uncertain.

What sums up these attributes better than darkness?

This to a t, exactly what i was going to say.