i think the reason why we fear the dark so adamantly is because it is to us a blank canvas a void upon which we paint
when the day arrives the sun etches in outlines of trees and skies splashes color upon the grass, the birds, and the houses and we understand what these figures mean
but the dark? it is for us to imagine and we fear what horrors our imagination can conceive we let our minds run wild in dreams and memories and thoughts and wait in morbid anticipation for our deadliest nightmares to come crawling back out and tear up our canvas with snarling teeth