The Fear Everyone Has
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- I’ve gotten multiple comments asking for this one, the fear of the dark is quite possibly the fear the most people on Earth have. Even if they don't know it, Nyctophobia is very common, and even if you don't feel scared of the dark, your biology would say otherwise.
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If you think about it, you barely ever are exposed to full darkness, unless you are in something like a cellar. Normally there's always a light source like the moon.
And when you sleep
unrelated but hey no way our profile pictures are opposites
the light given off by the moon is just light reflected by the sun im pretty sure.
@@Dave-UTube yeah but it reflects the reflected light to the earth thus no coplete darkness
@@WarThunderCauseYnot ima be honest
i understood none of what you said.
As a child, Your greatest gift was your blanket.
what about a stuffed animal?
@@soldier22881 Awww.
You mean shield?
I used to work a job where I patrolled remote areas of the desert at night by myself. The desert is hauntingly beautiful, very dark, and quiet, and I loved it. It was scary when you came across a threat you can’t quite see like a mountain lion, or worse, a human who had ties to a criminal gang. You were always watching something or someone, and you were always being watched.
actually sounds terrifying bro
Mfker i hope you haven't heard about shit like the Roc because you sure as hell don't need the brain creating any hallucinations out of fear
jungle would be worse
Not only that, desert nights are often cold.
@@AmyraCarter They invented this thing called sweaters. I'd be more worried about the hungry mountain lion or gang leader that decided it was time to make an example outa one of the guards. Desser's get coldish at night but not even in the same ballpark as some winters on differernt places on the planet where lots of people live. The *cold is prob not even a concern.
I fear the dark mostly because of my active imagination. When it's very dark, my subconscious wanders aimlessly and sometimes creates images and thoughts in my mind that scare me, sometimes even hearing things that aren't there or I'd see things that would make my heart race
exactlyyy😭
Bruh i almost feel sad for you but the fact that you experience that in my opinion is on you.
@@CoZenX0 you can't really control what you think sometimes, it happens to me too lol
You should get checked for schizophrenia. Im not insulting you or joking about what you said I reallu mean it because I have family with the condition and what you described is a sympton of it
Same ;-;
It's not necessarily the fear of the dark, rather the fear of the unknown.
Not knowing where to step, not knowing what you're touching, not knowing where to go, not knowing what you heard, not knowing what you smell, not knowing what to do, not knowing if you're alone, and not knowing what's out there. That's really what darkness brings.
Edit: I know this because as a 13 year old I was faced with the option of going completely blind or possibly dying sooner with partial blindness. I had a brain tumor that required a craniotomy, but the severity of how much mass would be taken out was ultimately up to me. The doctors explained the repercussions of the different options to me and my parents and they decided I was old and mature enough to make the decision myself.
I chose not to have the full mass removed out of fear and even still was too scared to open my eyes for a day or two after the procedure because I didn't want to know what had become of my sight. That being said, I came out with the best case scenario. Only lost half my peripheral vision and after 10 years of checking in on the mass periodically it hasn't grown.
oh no.hugs for you
Damn! You had to make that choice at 13?! That's so so horrible!
imagine basically telling a 13 year old "do you wanna possibly die or do you wanna go blind with way smaller possibillities of death in the process, your choice ;)" like what??
I’m not afraid of the dark itself, I’m afraid of accidentally tripping and falling over something that I can’t see.
That's how i lost my pokemon 2000 vhs
I'm in your wall
that's how I lost my spider man dvd
so true
@@KnHighmer_Dos I'm in your ceiling
"I'm not afraid of being alone in the dark, I'm afraid of NOT being alone in the dark!" -Donald Duck
parker???
@@joebidengamingofficialacco1291 no.
But what if you fear not being able to see?
@@JacktheStripper-tc5pnif you cant see, nothing can make you afraid from it if you cant see and it cant touch you..
you are not afraid of the dark, or the Animals or Humans you can encounter, which differ from location to location...
You feel suddenly "afraid" or "unease" in the dark, when you can see, but nothing is there. And your brain connect certein time and similar locations to "things" who "could" be according to what you have seen happen (in movies) or heard stuff from
Other people who probably spoke about a movie or some crime he has read in the internet or news
@@JacktheStripper-tc5pnimagine Jack the Ripper wouldnt have striped down prosts and offed them.... but lived in forest and offed hikers and families in different locations and towns....
A prosts is afraid of Jack, families and hikers arent.
My dad used to go cave exploring when he was in his 20s in Mexico. He said the worst moments of his life was when he was in a pitch black cave, water up to his neck, and the roof of the cave right above his head. He walked through that water system for hours.😖😣
That sounds like a nightmare oh god
My man Greg is right Water plus Dark equals scary.
Dads make crazy dad things 😂
At first I read it as "me and my dad" and I'm like that math isn't mathing 🤔
Nobody forced him, so wether he enjoyed it or it was all BS
Whenever im in the dark, I just go with the ol' "Pretend you're the monster so that it's less scary"
THIS!! I’m such a prey animal but when I’m in my own house I’m like “hold up… this is MY home!” And I feel so much less scared
Instructions unclear.
I am now wanted by the police.
@@madradge6353 Dw you aren't alone, i tried it yesterday and now im wanted in 60 countries
What did you do😰 @@madradge6353
Less "I'm stuck in a place with a predator with sharp teeth and/or tools" and more "A predator is now my prey because they are in a room I am familiar with, and I have sharp canine teeth and tools."
I love how you just talk around the subject in a kind of freeform direction, it reminds me of those deep conversations people have as teenagers that we all had, great video
This video made me more conscious about how long I stay in my apartment on school days. Little natural light. Living alone. Doing homework. I have a fear of caves. I realize now that I've put myself in one
edit: This video may have convinced me to buy one of those starry night sky night light projectors in online stores...
It’ll prolly help with your fear of caves
Oh yeah i have one of those hes an astronaut, his name is carl :)
Kind of poetic, ngl.
Vsauce did a big episode on fear and found that the worst fear is asphyxiation. It also is the only known thing to scare people without an amygdala which is the part of the brain that processes fears
It's impossible to not feel fear at all. Your brain desperately needs oxygen at all times, if it doesn't get it, it will find a way to tell your conscious self to breath, and that is fear. If it didn't feel that level of primordial fear of death, it'd probably not survive at all.
Everyone has fear. It’s an instinct, not an emotion.
I saw some information on this topic. It isn't the fear of asphyxiation. It is the fear of immediate death.
You only have a few minutes.
Death is permanent.
That creates an overload of adrenaline. Not endorphins.
It is an automatic response. Not a logic or pain driven response.
@@OXY187fear its not an instinct, its an emotion, or rather a response, that arises from a primordial instinct. In some cases, (and most) its the instinct of survival.
@@IgnacioLopez-p9t don't dance around words.
“One last video before bed.”
The video:
Me too bro
I just woke up
I do wonder why I always end up watching horror related content before sleeping, but almost never at any other time.
facts
literally me too XD
Silence is the counterpart to darkness. Cold the counterpart to darkness as well. When you can't sense something with one of your senses, that is scary. A quiet forest is a dangerous one.
I do adore this subject, but with a twist
from my POV of being an abused child through very rough adulthood
darkness and the unknown became more comforting than the constant stress and fear I had surrounding me in the places meant for comfort. When you can't go to your parent for a hug, hiding under the bed became the warmth. When the bills aren't paid causing water and lights stop, going into the woods feels like home.
There were even several times I was specifically dropped of and left alone in strange places so adults could go off and do drugs or scream to voices in their heads.
It's honestly fascinating and funny, now esp after therapy, that when you're surrounded by evil at the hands of those meant to protect you, the dark isolated void is much more soothing.
I struggle with agoraphobia a lot too, few years ago I couldn't be in public spaces without breaking down case being around others, even if mundane, became so traumatizing and didn't feel safe anymore. Now living in a more secluded area, I don't feel watched by humans but instead witnessed by nature and the universe. I feel like a fellow weird lil creature in the dark~
I remember one time learning that there was this woman with a neurological condition that didn’t allow her brain to feel fear. The dark, spiders, horror movies, nothing scared her. But eventually researchers did find something that triggered fear in her brain: it was suffocation. When her air supply was cut off, and her brain realized she couldn’t breathe, she felt fear for the first time.
Concord gameplay would have worked just fine
I don't really see the connection between spooky things and the urge to breathe. It's like saying "I don't have a wife" and then the research mer says, "but you love ice cream, so you do have a wife".
@@MrCmon113 The point was that it triggered the fight or flight response in her brain. Nothing triggered a response if any kind to anything most people would respond to in some way. It was tested on multiple people with the same condition and it all gave the same results. It's because it triggered a response of panic and fear in someone who was seemingly immune to all other things
Fear isn't just about spooky things... Fear of death is our brain's way of helping us stay alive. Which is why suffocating would trigger fear, the brain knows without air it will die very quickly.
"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."
It really depends on who's doing the suffocating. Let's just say I get into the extreme side of things.
I also don't fear death. I mean that. Ever seen Puss in Boots: The Last Wish? I *AM* death. Add Smaug into that too.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear, is fear of the unknown.
- H.P Lovecraft
Pretty sure Lovecraft’s biggest fear was black people
My man had nyctophobia
@@jimmymcgill2961 N-word man
@@jimmymcgill2961 And the Arabs and the..Ukrainians as well? At least he feared everyone somewhat equal.
@@jimmymcgill2961I’ve read everything he ever wrote, and what his contemporaries wrote about him.
I’m about convinced that he was writing as a sort of self-therapy to express his fears, and to mock the zeitgeist of his day.
He himself was an atheist. He had rejected Christianity because he considered it an infantile attempt to deny the infinite, uncaring universe and seek comfort in anthropomorphizing it, along with all other religions. He was what today we’d call a “mechanistic materialist”.
Racism was far more common in his day, not in an active oppressive fashion (in the circles he moved in- remember that he lived in New England), but more in the sense that fostered eugenics. Some races are more evolved than others, and should be left to themselves and not interacted with by their “betters” until they had evolved to become equals, that kind of thing. It’s still racism, just “refined”.
Hence his “cosmic horrors” were beings so far above humans that they saw us as insects when they noticed us at all. In other words he wanted his oh-so-superior contemporaries to see themselves the way they (and he) saw blacks etc.
It’s not fear of the unknown, it’s fear of realizing that your “place in the universe” is an illusion.
I’m not afraid of the dark, but rather of the LEGO that I might step on.
More seriously, your videos are awesome man. Keep making em, really. Very high quality content
The true fear, a rogue lego
Legophobia
@@Quick15a Lego man murdered my sister
😅😅😅
So true😊
@@Quick15they really should officially identify and label this. Anyone near or had a child in their dwelling knows that dreaded Lego is fearful.
Creeping through your own dwelling, shuffling your feet across the floor is what that damn stuff makes you do. Snakes at least hiss at you. 😅
@AmandaHugandKiss411 upside down lego
“The longing for the light is innate even for creatures who have never seen past the dark” what a sentence
I fucking love the way you talk about things. You do it so well. the first 11 seconds of this made me think: "This guy knows how to talk about things, and this is gonna be interesting." I need to go, but I can't wait to get back and watch this, or listen to it.
I still have this fear as a 24 year old the Dark scares me still because you think your being watched,you can't see your own hand,and worse of alm your mind plays tricks on you.
FRRRR one time my mom was waking me up for school and she turned the lights off on me after turning them on, and instantly i had a weird half-dream that lasted a second. i was running through a dark hallway and frantically switching on all the light switches my hand could feel (it was that dark in the dream) but the lights never turned on and eccojams music was getting louder and louder until i woke up
@SpongeboyMeBob
I have a similar dream experience I had when I was a kid except this was much darker:I had a knack for sleep walking when I was a kid I slept walk into my parents room so they set up a sleeping bag for me one night I was asleep but this dream felt so real a dark hooded figure was approaching me and I was saying stop! Stop! Then I woke up everything was fine.
Did you grow up in a house with the light always on?
@Wickdesu
Yeah since I wanted the hall lights on all the time still do to this day. Heck I even had a NightLight to that is how scared of the dark I am. And I can't ride on Theme Park rides that r pitch black so Space Mountain is a huge nope 4 me.
There are things in darkness we can't see .. I hav never slept in complete darkness... Ever since I was a child .. I have felt there is something in darkness... People constantly tell me I'm silly ..because I'm an adult... I couldn't careless what they say ... I live in the light
Apeirophobia, also known as the fear of the infinite or eternal. is probably the most ominous fear I could think of. And it makes sense.. I can probably prove you have this fear. Imagine an infinite labyrinth of Old moist carpet and buzzing lights like the backrooms.. Or maybe being stuck in the cosmic web, or maybe realizing immortality.. is a bit TOO long of a timeframe. Not such an obscure fear, is it?
Bro he has to do a video on this
duuuuude there needs to be a video on this
have you ever tried a game called yedoma globula? it's a game that takes place within a fractal, and the whole point is to just wonder around the infinite landscape with a flashlight. It's one of the most terrifying yet beautiful games i've tried
the backrooms isn't scary. more likely something to convey that is by telling someone to look up at night and tell them that black sky goes on infinitely
@@TheEveryDayC The backrooms, before the internet ruined it, WAS scary, before “levels” and “entities” were included. Being trapped in an infinite labyrinth of yellow wall paper, slowly losing your mind subject to starvation. THAT is terrifying, and it’s terrifying to most other people. else apeirophobia wouldn’t be a concept. the universe is a good example as well, or as you said “The blackness of sky” but it’s more akin to cosmophobia or Astrophobia rather than apeirophobia.
I fear no darkness, or lack of sight
But that coffee table that always shifts just in front of me when the lights go out... that thing scares me
I'm telling you, monsters are real.
Ones shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie beneath that table
@@nd55662I’m telling you, I’m too blind to see it shift.
Instead my brain just says “WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK IS THAT BLOB OVER THERE” like I don’t know it’s the same table that has always been there for 3 years.
@@nd55662 yeah, I drink em often.
you living in prop hunt I think
0:37 i am scared of it CUS I CANT SEE NUN WHAT IF SOMETING HITS MY BALLS OR A STUB MY TOE😢
Fair
what if a random hand gives you a reach around just until you’re about to finish and gives you blue balls? That’s worse than anything I can think of .
As of the moment I'm watching this video, it's exactly midnight turning to August 19. 2 days ago (basically Aug. 17), as I was hanging my clothes outside, I sensed the presence of something on my left, and it was not my dog, who was behind me. At first, I thought it was my mother coming from the kitchen outside to tell me something, and as I looked left straight, I saw no one but my cat, at around 5 meters. I swear I didn't hear him, but sensed his presence, somehow. I guess that could be an explanation about why we also fear the unknown in the dark. We need sight to confirm our sensations and feelings about that "something's not right about this place" or "there's not a good reason about why something or someone could be here". I guess that sense also gets a bit "nerfed" (if you wanna call it that) when somebody is with us 'on our side'. Having the feeling of company is something that could end up very wrong in the wrong situations. Humans are weird.
Your short bit about glow-worms was beautiful! When you mentioned that they imitate a sky they'll never see, it genuinely made me shiver with goosebumps! That was poetically satisfying! Thanks.
They're a surreal experience! I saw them in New Zealand, and the maori had some neat beliefs surrounding them. Namely that they were fragments of souls left to guide the dead deeper in to the afterlife, and guide the living back out of the cave.
I’m actually afraid of the dark primarily because it triggers all my other fears, often when I’m going to sleep my mind wanders to it’s darkest places. Watching this after 5pm since my mind wants to ignore that.
your mind should not be a hinderance, learn to control it. regardless of the circumstances, if you don't want to experience fear, let it pass through you
@@poopooman-q7r responding at 4:15am, try going into a dark room and thinking about your worst fears for one hour, you won’t last a minute.
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@@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 I tried lasting for a minute (Everything else is a waste of time) and I must say its pretty unsettling and uncomfortable, I woulve probably only lasted 5 minutes before breaking out in sweat.
@@theodorerobertscoffieldkoz9329 I have this feeling the moment I turn off my laptop...And while it does help me sleep, the ringing in my ears, combine with seeing things in front of me or my eyes......Can be very unsettling.
I actually have Nyctophobia, and I want to thank you for noting that being stuck in the dark will cause you to hallucinate. It's something I need to tell people, and it always feels they don't understand, even if they say they do. So I appreciate that someone is recognizing it in a form of media. And if anyone was wondering, yes, I got triggered sooooo many times in this video. Even with some of the daytime pictures. If its a doorway with a bit of darkness in it, or indicates darkness in the next area, it drives me wild. It's specifically because it is dark, making my brain go wild. Part fear of the unknown, part fear of my mind creating something I just don't want to see.
I have the last 2 fears, the 1st in real life, and the 2nd one in lucid dreams.
So what's the therapy? Getting dimmable lights everywhere and dimming them super slowly?
YES!!! I’m the exact same way with doorways!
You can also have heat haze with the sun. Ever had 1000 voices screaming inside your head? Guilt can do that to people. Things can be blurry there. People can struggle with making heads or tails of things.
Then I come along, scare someone even more, and they fight back. Oh look, they're focused and stop being feared. Got to love the smell of fear.
I have a friend who has it
The fear of being alone stems from the fear of not being alone
Skeletor will be back with more disturbing facts
Note: I didn't watch this before typing it. I realized this comment comes up at around around 1:50. Nyctophobia stems from Xenophobia; Fear of dark stems off fear of unknown if we are using English and not Latin. Also Xenophobia; this word has been turned into a buzz word about immigration and lack of tolerance. Not unfounded in logic but also far from the full scope of what it entails. I don't fully know the scope of that fear given it is almost endless in nature because well; if it is unknown... what do we know of it?
2:04 I'm the opposite. My nyctophobia is so intense that I can't even sleep in my own room without light. And yet, for some reason, I am an absolute astrophiliac. It's weird.
I think because you're an astrophiliac you understand that all of space is so far from our reach and everything is so vast and far apart that it won't affect you in any immediate way. You understand the vastness and how little it effects your daily life so there's an inherent distance between you and the stars which I the opposite of you being in close contact with darkness. Also we have proves and telescopes and any number of measuring instruments so we know a lot about space. Defined not everything but it's broken down into data and images easy for us to understand.
actually same.
we actually lost our ability to sleep with the lights out at some point shortly after we turned 18. probably some kinda trauma. we get paranoid in any dark spaces now, even familiar ones.
@@SunroseStudiosthe way you refer to yourself as "we" is a bit strange..
I mean, technically it's not dark in space .. kinda sorta
I have a phobia that someone's always there.
Do you also have a constant fear that something’s always near?
FEAR OF THE DAAAARK
FEAR OF THE DAAAAAaaRK
I kind of have that but i always just try to think about something else even if its random.
Maybe because it is true ;)
@@percypower6876 This comment thread is an inside joke about the song Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden, BTW
As SpongeBob said himself.
this isn't just any Darkness this is Advanced Darkness
*blows raspberry*
Ah yes, advanced darkness. The spell you learn after putting sufficient points and usage into the first spell in that tree, which is of course: rudimentary darkness 😂
I quote this line all the time and no one ever catches on 😔
Also, don’t run for a bus.
ESPECIALLY ONE THATS GOING AT A 90 DEGREE ANGLE!
This video terrified me. Thanks 🥺
I am from Chile, and every day in those two months where the 33 were trapped, the news didn't stop. I was a kid and it was terrifying to think about the pitch black that those men had to endure, the thought that they were gonna die crushed every time the reporters talked about yet /another/ drill broken.
It's weird when others narrate the story but it's also good to know that they are not forgotten.
Personally I am still scared of the dark. Not to a degree when I can't even walk in dark parks, but the anxiety still spikes high especially at night.
I love your videos!
I have ADHD. So even when I'm in my room, I get scared in the dark because i just fabricate in my mind that there are demons outside of my room who can see me when I'm not closing my eyes and have my sheets up to my neck. So that is the only way I can go to sleep, I always open my eyes otherwise.
Same
Cant sleep without thinking “wake up something is in the room” or seeing something or hearing something when theres nothing
This is why I prefer to sleep with the light on, my Brain cannot turn off the same way it can for a lot of people, so if I'm in the dark, even in my room, if I'm not with someone I see things in the dark, I get bad feelings, I hear things, and I if I exit my room in the night, I bring whatever light I can, because In the dark of the night in my house, I get the feeling something is lurking there
That’s not exactly an ADHD thing as many people fear the dark/what’s in it even in their room with or without ADHD. The experience itself might be different though.
its an understatement to say this channel is underrated, the absolute meditative state i go into while watching your content is something i see quite rarely on youtube, and i have come to appreciate the value of channels like disrupt, solar sands, jacob geller and many others, that manage to capture this out of body state of mind, yet for some reason your work still is underappreciated. İf you have any dout that you are the problem shake it off because its definately some youtube algorithm shenaynaygains going not that is preventing you from progressing.
(ps sorry if the text sounds weird my english isnt the best)
I'm more afraid of what is IN the dark, than I am of the dark. Or better yet, what "might be" in the dark. Lovecraft knew this fear.
Exactly. I'm fine when I'm at home st night I'm fine walking around in the dark. Bur make it somewhere where I don't know what's out there and I'm terrified
@@piercecowley255 I dont know why you think your house is truly safe. Anything could be in the darkness no matter where, we have no certainty of what is possible.
@eeurr1306 well I know all the places someone could hide. I know of the secret room under the stairs so when I walk past I bolt nit shut from the outside, and if anyone is in my house I know the layout and can move around in the dark, they don't, and will be tripping over everything
@@piercecowley255 Thats not the point im making. What Im interested in is how you feel safe just because you know your surroundings. Afterall whos to say there isnt anything hiding in the dark, when youll find out its already too late.
@eeurr1306 well there's an alarm system so I would know if anyone else was in there, and again in the dark in my own house I hold all the advantages
1:02 not “one OF your main senses” you can’t use THE main sense which is sight. We rely on our sense of sight so much more than anything else and I think that’s a major reason why pretty much everyone is scared of the dark
I wouldn't consider sight the main sense. We use the other senses so much as well, but we dont pay them as much mind.
@@batscove which would make sight the main sense
@@alwaysmiling1 From a biological standpoint, smell is one of the oldest and most important senses, as it is connected directly to the brain without passing through the thalamus.
And could you imagine a world without touch?
Another important sense is kinesthesia, which basically tells you when you are accelerating. I wouldn't consider this one *more* import. But we would be lacking crucial information without it.
The point im making is that there is no MAIN sense, its all our senses working in tandem to create perception from sensation as through the brain.
@@batscove that's fair
0:34 oh no, nyctophphobia
I think you need another ph
Your videos are so nice to just listen to while I'm half paying attention to other things like gaming or painting or stuff like that. I also like that they get a bit more interesting as the video goes on. The related and mostly not stock footage helps as well. No transition or editing effects every five seconds. Good stuff.
I'm glad I'm a good background voice, on a side note you've been commenting on these videos for a while so thank you :)
I love these phobia videos. Maybe do Scopophobia or thanataphobia at some point
@THE-SHADOW-MAN666 yes
@THE-SHADOW-MAN666 fear of death or the fear of losing someone you love.
Please do a video on why people find clowns irresistible
I'm a Nyctophiliac ngl, my room is always almost completely dark and I love going on night walks and staying up all night.
What is it about the dark that you like so much just curious
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@@gizmo4192 I think some part of it probably had to do with the biological instinct of feeling safer when not visible than when visible. Another thing is it's just nice lol. I don't like being flashbanged by the sun it's too bright and the way light glints off of surfaces during the day can be a especially annoying. I have astigmatism as well so I'm sure my vision and how I experience the world might be slightly visually different from people without that condition (for example, traffic lights tend to have a glint characteristic where light beams extend out every 90 degrees/180 degrees and it feels like visual clutter that's simply built into my eyes. Pretty annoying stuff.
@@gizmo4192the quiet emptiness of the night is like the physical presence version of ambient music. There's an artful atmosphere to the nighttime that makes it feel like a painting you're a part of. The business of the daytime is nowhere to be seen and everything stands still for you to explore or marvel at
@@MarmadukeDormedius this
I’m not afraid of the dark, but that’s because my mother wasn’t. She was… ballsy when she was younger to say the least. And I’ve learned over the years that I had gotten my desire for night adventures from her. This tends to frighten her given the fact that she always had friends with her and I tend to be by myself when I’m out (reasonable fear but gets annoying lol).
And right as I’m typing this, the “you’re not scared of the dark, you’re scared of what’s in it” line comes in.
That actually held very true for me, for there actually was one instance I did fear for my life in the darkness of night. A gut feeling that I chose to obey is the reason I’m still alive today, and it bothers me more and more that all it took for me to die that night was the mere belief of “nah I’ll be fine.”
I am 25 years old and I have such a debilitating fear of the dark that I genuinely couldn’t stomach this video. I was watching the video out of my peripheral because I was genuinely too afraid to look at the screen. I was in a fully bright room but the idea of the dark in these spaces had me so anxious I had to stop. It really is a fear of the unknown and being in danger there’s almost something paranormal about dark environments I can’t even sleep without a bright light on unless I’m with other people because my brain is CONVINCED that something is in my house ready to hurt me. If I’m with others I’m significantly less afraid but some environments still freak me out. I’m not scared of most things but there’s something that causes my blood to run cold about the dark. I can stomach most horror fiction but anything that relies on nyctophobia I start to feel faint. I have tried everything to make myself not be afraid of it anymore but without fail when I am by myself in a low lighting place my body freezes and my heart starts to race
4:26 there’s my render!! I can’t believe one of my favorite creators used my art ❤️❤️❤️
i thought this was a real photo
Same @@world1583
@@world1583 too flat to be a real photo
@@tlpa i mean it could be some artwork in real life thats meant to look flat and unsettling and its just shot on bad camera so thats what i thought
me at 3am: yeah let's watch one more video
my youtube recommended:
Why is this so real??😭
It’s literally 3am rn💀
2:47 am for me right now lol
3:48 am im cooked
Same bro, it's literally 2:39 am rn
Title: the fear everyone has
Me: umm blind people lol
Blind people are pretty scary, you right
@@DILFDylFfax dude
how do i say this.... THEY....SEE...BUT DONT SEE...
Woah, imagine a comic superhero that is fearless because he is blind and tho can know where is everything even in the da-
Daredevil.
Blind people with complete blindness don't see dark. It isn't dark fir them. Look it up.
It is a weird noncolour of some amount of light to it.
Because it isn't completely absolute black darkness, it really screws with their natural sleep patterns and many suffer from insomnia.
There's some good blind UA-camrs who try their best to explain this better than I can. But no, most are not living in total darkness even if they have 100% blindness and were born blind.
oh my gosh, that mine disaster you mentironed, IVE WATCHED A VIDEO ABOUT THAT EXACT ONE
as soon as you mentioned it, i couldn't believe it, as if you mentioned one ive literally heard of
This video is honestly really good
I'm almost 20 years old but I still sleep with a little lamp beside my bed. I can't be in the dark for too long without panicking
Be like Batman. face your fears !
I am watching this right now in the middle of the night with the lights on. Just saw a giant roach and now I’m too scared to sleep with the lights off. I’m more scared of bugs than the dark, but bugs crawling around in the dark is a double whammy
Same
same
Another great video! I love the stuff on nostalgia, and it's crazy to me how I feel nostalgia for stuff from long before i was born.
what i've heard is that some people lack the ability to fear or be afraid bc of an underdeveloped part in the brain. Those people will be perfectly fine with every scary scenario u put them in but there is one specific situation in which the people who never experienced fear, get a taste of it, and that's when they are suffocating. When too much carbon dioxide builds up in ur body even the fearless start to fear. So I'd say a true universal fear would be smth like that. Even though u might not be afraid of it thinking about it now, but once u are in this situation, we would all be terrified to the core.
That's just what the video reminded me of, great video.
At just 15 ft under water in a pool alone my snorkel mask leaked filling my nose w a bit of water. I was a life guard checking the deep end drain before shutting down and going home. I REALLY had to get a grip on fear/panick and work my way up while coughing out all my air, the entire time telling myself the water won't kill you but fear will. Agreed suffocation is scary, I sat on the side of the pool shaking and coughing, taking tiny sips of air as I could for about 30 minutes before I could go home.
mine only fear are bears
I like how multifaceted this essay was. This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on UA-cam
It's kinda comforting to hear the fear of the dark being talked about so openly and universally. I actually have nyctophobia, I "didn't grow out of it". And I get that people find humour in that, but it's a phobia. Explaining that I'm ok is hardly enough to make it go away. And it really sucks. Hearing someone talk about it in a mature, logical manner and without laughter is refreshing.
I loved your Astrophobia video and this one fills my hole for more of your videos. Good work bro
15 years ago I went to the Kungur ice cave in Russia. I still remember this vividly, not the whole experience, of course, but a lot. There was a grotto, where the tour gide switched off the light, so we could experience how the true darkness of the cave feels like. I am still impressed at how terrifying it was. First few seconds you are not scared, just surprised at how strange it is to open and close your eyes and seeing that nothing has changed. Then you start to listen, as this was almost the only sensation you are left with/ I heard drops of water behind me and the breathing of silent people. Then my sence of space started to fail. I knew, that there is at least a half meter distance between be and a tiny stream behind me, but my brain felt like there is onle a few millimeters and that the stream flows in a much deeper ditch. There was even a feeling that the metal trail is shrinking. My brain thought that I will fall the second I move, and there was a huge dissonance betweem my memory of how space looks like and my feelings of what it was/ The light was out only for a minute, but staying in pitch black cave felt like catharsis.
i love these video, the amount of effort put into them are amazing
One of my biggest fears related to the dark, is seeing a human figure in the dark. And I'm not talking like a spirit or a demon or whatever. I mean like, actually seeing somebody in the dark. I get anxious waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, terrified of seeing an unfamiliar human silhouette around the corner.
Or leaving for work at 5 in the morning and just seeing the dark shape of someone standing in the yard. The anxiety of potentially seeing that is unreal.
I once tried this blind tour where you experiance what being blind is like, very facinating stuff btw. But they put us in this pich black room and gave us the walking sticks and then sent us off. now I was expecting to be able to kind of cheat this as I have rly good night vision, but I couldn't, though after a while those halucinations you mentioned started, but not in a scary way in fact I'd say that that darkness was one of the most comfortable ones I've been in, no instead I started halucinating the siluettes of the people that where talking too me, almost as if I could see them with my ears they would apear as I heard someone talking and then disapear when they stopped. Also I today am not afraid of the dark at all, the dim and especially dim flickering lights I don't like, idk if it's cuz I found a sort of comfort in the dark, but the dim light feels like someone is trying to hide, but still wants to see, and with the flickering it's almost as if my brain get's ready to react as soon as it sees something in the light as it flickers. Again complete darkness or just utside night darkness is fine, I chill with the spirits and anyone who wants to jump me can just try it
So you say darkness is perfact for horror, and you are right, the darkness can hide anything and that makes it perfect for well hiding stuff, just out of sight, but for the characters and the viewer. But considder instead, a dimly lit room with something in it, it's hunched over, but you can vaguely see the lanky shape of it' as it turns it's head and looks at you, the light just bright enough too reflect off of it's eyes, but not quite bright enough for you to see it's facial features. The light starts flickering, you can't take your eyes off the thing, you see it moving it's arm forward, jus tfor a split second and then agian in during the next flicker and during the next it's moving towards you, you can't tell exactly how fast cuz of the lights, but it's comming for you and it's already closer than you'd like
You may not realize but you’re channel is pretty much the central plot to the Magnus Archives. Basically describing primordial fears that grew alongside humans.
everything familiar becomes scary when I picture a disfigured mutated 8ft woman clawing through my house.
That's not scary, that's hot ngl
Thats when I become the one on the hunt
8 foot? Bet 🗿
@@B.I.R.D-GROUP thats what im SAYING like I be looking for HER
@@elchar3577 least wild “hear me out” yet
I cant believe how increadibly underrated this channel is, its truly frustrating. keep up the good work man.
The magnus archives is really good at coming up with ideas of the basic fears everyone has
You should’ve mentioned the people that went missing and got lost in the catacombs of Paris France, they are not with us anymore
when you talked about darkness in half life, it reminded me of nighttime in stalker without nightvision
every time i see you post it makes my day 100% better
I’m scared of the dark no matter what , in my room or in a strange place 😭 it’s so bad , I try to overcome it but the anxiety and paranoia always trumps. Good to know it isn’t as uncommon as I thought originally , makes me feel better being an adult scared of the dark
I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there
"Fear of the Dark" by Iron Maiden
Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's watching you
i actually find the space calming, idk i was tense the whole video then seeing the space kind of calmed me down
I am scared of the dark in buildings, but I'm all right with it outside. I think it's the fact I'm scared of opening doors in the dark
I was never afraid of the dark when I was younger but nowadays, I'm absolutely terrified of being in the pitch black darkness. I can cope with a little lighting in a room but if it's completely dark, oh hell no.
Just a few months ago, the power went out at night while I was up and I just panicked. In my anxiety state, I grabbed a knife because I thought something was going to come out and hurt me. The lights came on after about 10 minutes but I couldn't calm down for the rest of the night.
My dogs would randomly start barking whenever I was the only in the house at night and again it sends me into panic mode. I don't do anything during these moments other than trying to figure out what is causing them to bark.
And don't even get me started on being surrounded by woods and how absolutely horrible it is at night.
But it is 100% true, I'm not afraid of the dark itself but more of what can be hiding in the darkness.
I grew up in the mountains and the woods, and there is something particularly unsettling about being alone in the woods at night.
One game that emphasizes this perfectly is Stalker, Stalker Anomaly to be exact, walking through the darkscape, especially with a cracked gas mask, it's a new level of fear than the already scary environment of the game.
I've never really understood stalker. It kinda reminds me of games like DayZ and tarkov but Idk
I agree. Im not afriad of the ocean. Im afraid of what is in the ocean because if i am at the surface, i am vulnerable and if i am vulnerable i am prey. And the ocean is pretty dark, usually we cant see whats in the water and on top of all that, we are not made to be in it.
Alright, it might sound dumb. I had a literal panic attack in Arma 3 when it got dark in the game. I remember it because I never felt something similar before. It wasn't "spooky" kind of fear. It was something like ... hitting a physical literal panic mid gaming after realizing "Hey, wait a second, I'm lost ... in the middle of the jungle". It was a micro *primal* fear that lasted just 5 seconds.
I was lost in the jungles. Usually, there's at least moon, stars. Usually, there's NVGs or a flashlight.
But at that time:
a) I forgot my gear, not even a flashlight,
b) It was cloudy and raining, so no natural sources of night light.
If you're curious, I was playing the "Old Man" scenario. If you remember the map, I was trying to do something near the big radar. I had a route through the jungles, and it was getting dark.
Frankly speaking, as silly it sounds, I never felt something like this before in my life. From now on, I will never underestimate the darkness. It's like being in a zoopark among the tigers. It's not scary when you listen to them from UA-cam, you have to experience it in real life. Their roar trigger something primal in you, you literally have a small heart attack. Big cats have something like a paralyzing roar ability. I mean it's all is terrifying stuff. Logically, nothing should be scary nor spooky. You're in a zoo or playing a game, but your monkey instincts can kick you randomly because your reptile brain or something says "HEY I'm scared MF".
As soon as Cresendex mentioned cave creatures, I immediately thought of Zubat lol
If they were real, people would be less likely to go into caves.
@Void-gk1bx Spelunking would require a lot more Repel-ling 😉
@@Quiet_Void Quick, get the pokeballs lads. INTO THAT CAVE!
Didn't think it through did you?
I am a man who walks alone, and when I'm walking a dark road at night, or strolling through the park when the light begins to change, I sometimes feel a little strange. A little anxious when it's dark.
Great videos! I loved your thalassophobia video!
This video made me hyper-aware of the dark abandoned hospital im watching this video in right now
9:26 As someone who also has arachnophobia, I would love to see a video about it lol
i just gotta say that you are the most underrated youtuber ive ever watched, you produce amazing content that is better than people with millions of subscribers when you only have 20k (20k is still alot but not compared to most youtube standards) amazing work man!
3:02 “warning:detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region.are you sure whatever your doing is worth it?,”
That line is so fire tho
"This ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans."
I've never NOPE'd so hard in my life before or since
"..... Yes.. good bye..."
Oh shit its so over
The first time I got that alert I nearly shat myself, same with when I entered the Void for the first time
My first memory of fearing the dark was when I had a sudden moment at 5 y/o where I was in my house and just... realized I shouldn't be afraid of it. Whatever gave me trepidation was nonexistent. There, at least.
I remember when I was younger, I always had this fear of the darkness. And there were times, as an adult, where it would happen again. And I realized, much later on, that it was probably the fear of abandonment - in this case, the fear of losing my mother. For the time that she was alive, she was practically my entire world, and for all the times that it happened as a child, she was connected to it in some way. I saw her health decline over the last several years of her life, knowing that, if she ever got too bad, there wasn't much I could do for her. One of the last major incidents, while she was still alive, happened in 2007. It was a fairly uneventful day, but something inside me just didn't feel right. When the evening came around, I can't remember feeling too tense, but I think, at the time, some of the stressors I was dealing with in my life, alongside seeing her change... Something inside me just went off. The final catalyst to set it off wasn't anything that should have - an innocuous line in a cartoon. No connection to abandonment or anything like that, and yet, something about the tone of the voice, although somewhat upbeat, seemed to be the last little thing that helped send me into a silent panic. And yet, it only built up over the course of the evening. Perhaps there was no connection at all, but I remember it playing back in my mind, as I'm feeling this horrifying dread. I had three computers at that place - two in my bedroom, and my main one out in the living room, conveniently set up so that I could share things with my mom, if she was up for it. Eventually I ended up going into my room, and anytime I passed down the hallway, where some pictures were hanging - or by the bathroom, which had a mirror - I'd freak out, and shield my eyes. (Seriously, screw mirrors in dark hallways. Oh, and screw lit ceiling fans too, especially when the light is on - not related to this story, but still somewhat related.) Anyway, I remember staying basically inside my room, for the rest of the night, researching nyctophobia, because I wanted answers as to why I was feeling this way. But I stayed in my room, with the door shut, and the light on, until the break of dawn, and then crashed out. Not fun.
this video made me realize that i am not afraid of ghosts or whats hiding in the dark but rather the dark itself, because i dont feel comfortable being in dark no matter if its my room of some other random place i just get rush of adrenaline and get very alert snd start to panick for no reason, but that only happens when i am alone, when i am with somebody i dont feel it at all
Two fears every human is born with are the fear of loud sounds and the fear of falling
Also the fear of suffocating
I don’t know if everyone is born with those fears. Ok, babies cry when they hear loud sounds but I don’t think that’s a phobia. Just that their ears are more sensitive and they can’t really process what the sound is or how to interpret it so they just cry. As you get older, some sounds may surprise you but the more you hear them, the less shocking they become. As for falling, same thing. Nobody wants to fall, but it’s not really a phobia everyone is born with. If all kids were scared of falling, that would make for a dull childhood.
Fear of falling you say? Tell that to literally every baby/toddler around a window.
Also in the dark if you close your eyes causing your brain to move resources into other survival mechanisms. Such as spatial awareness to your ears. Try it, close your eyes and walk through your house. Of course you have it mapped in your head.
But here's what most people do not relise is our ears being used in spatial awareness. You know how your home **sounds**. As soon as your brain registers the sound isn't right tells you the most likely factor: there is something either more or less where you are.
Imagine someone places a cupboard in the room. Next tike you walk through the room your brain instantly recognizes something is wrong. You get a sudden rush of unexplained fear. Imagine that cupboard is actually a person, maybe you cannot har them breathe but the fact that they are squeezed into the corner creates a deadspace. The normal sound of air movement in this area is modified by occupation alone.
Now also in a new place at night. Close your eyes instead of trying to see things in the darkness. You will realize you can hear dead spaces by lack of movement of air. You can then identity walls and other large items with ease. If you had your eyes open your brain would be straining to make out shapes in the dark.
So I always say you should map out your house in your head with your eyes closed in the dead of the night. No one could take you offguard if you can "hear" where things are supposed to be. Your brain is processing so much more sensory data than you know. Especially when you remove your sight as an option.
Now. If you end up somewhere in the dark unknown. Stop. Get low to the ground. Close your eyes and just "feel", your brain will notify you in danger. If you were panicking and running around blind you'd run right into danger for sure. However if you are calmly listening, YOU are the danger in the dark. 😊
Unless there's a cougar in the dark with you... then the cougar is definitely the danger lol
@@jra.ine777or literally anything else? Sure you’ll hear them, but what is hearing where things are gonna do when someone’s stabs you 💀 also, ur brain will automatically make all senses heightened when needed. Like, to the maximum they can go. U only think of one thing during this situation, and that is survival. So idk what the person is yapping about, it’s cool..but I’d keep my eyes open tbh
Thats pretty interesting, althoug counter intuitive, taking your sight out to better understand your surroundings is pretty coherent thing to do, but even if limited, your sight is still 100 times more useful/important than hearing in such situation, not accounting the courage it takes to close your eyes in the dark, because if you do so i t only puts more pressure/stress on yourself in an already scary situation, making it a fun thing to do while in a dark space you know its safe before hand, but very impractical on a potentially dangerous dark area, not to dismiss any of what you said of course, but i thought important to point it out nonetheless.
im sorry but like any predator hunting at night has way better hearing then us so aren't they the danger?
I'm even scared in my room like a black creature peeks at me trough door, sometimes i hallucinate other stuff at dark only.
My grandpa always said that “we as people aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark but instead afraid that we aren’t alone in the dark” the idea that someone or something is there that you can’t see is far more terrifying than the dark itself
As someone who suffers from a kind of photosensitivity that makes it impossible to drive at night, I actually enjoy proper, serious darkness. I hate street lights and headlights and torches and all that stuff because they blind me, but if I'm in the dark with just moonlight and stars, I can see pretty well and am able to relax. If I was ever afraid of the dark, it was before my memory and probably before I started being taken on hunts. Some of my earliest memories are hiking too, and I'm sure my parents took me camping before I ever learned how to hunt. The closest thing to fear of the dark is when I'm having hallucinations, and those can happen in broad daylight, so it doesn't really have much weight. I'm definitely scared of my nightmare monsters, but that's to be expected. For that matter, my growing up near the sea has left me shocked that anyone could be actually scared of the ocean. I'm also super fun at parties because I can't for the God in me be afraid of human killers in movies, it just makes me angry, not really afraid, to see a slasher or hear about a prolific killer. Monsters, real ones, are very much something I'm afraid of, at least.
1:10 It is easy to move on by thinking about having a special relationship with the darkness, facing it and noticing that in reality there is no point in being afraid of it.
Have you run your fingers down the wall, have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the li-
Maybe your mind is playing tricks when suddenly eyes fix, a shadow creeping up be-
When you're searching for the little spider you heard scraping its feet on the wall?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's watching you
Iron maiden, fear of the dark.
"When I'm walking a dark road I'm a man who walks alone" are the closing of the song and spoken way more calmly than the rest of the song. Showing what actually scares us in the dark.
One of my favorite Maiden songs, 1st being Wasted Years
I Read The Title And Came Just To Comment This:
The Fear That Everyone Including Me Has:
The Fear Of Minecraft Cave Sounds
Sound, especially subliminal sounds, contribute Greatly to the fear of the dark/what may be IN the dark.
The entire segment on caves is exactly why I think anyone who spelunks for fun should be on a watch list.
Watch list for what?
@@Kragithbeing insane dog. Willingly entering caves like that takes someone genuinely insane
@@arizonaranger2333just let them
Death is nothing
I fear nothing, with Christ by my side and in my soul, nothing more than God himself shall I fear. 🙏
I have 4 major fears:
1: the dark
2: being lost
3: being abandoned
And finally the scariest fear that i have: actually getting the courage to talk to a girl for once
did you have to remind me?
imagine being scared of girls ehehe ^_^ silly
You described me
@@Nobody.thatyouknowI'm scary of humans beings
@@ehyehasherehyeh3304boo im a human
“You wouldn’t exactly feel any fear, unless there’s an active threat.” My chronic anxiety and paranoia:
Of course this ends up being the last video I watch before sleeping 😭