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Lights hanging from trees in forest © Cultura RM / Masterfile

Lights hanging from trees in forest © Cultura RM / Masterfile

Darkness Falls

Stacey Waspe March 23, 2018

The color black may forever be linked with fashion, but it’s also the color of darkness and grief, of night and monsters. In our shared prehistory, things that lurked unseen in the darkness, like enemies, predators and the landscape itself, could kill us. When we can’t see anything, we fear everything. And so on some level we’re all still afraid of the dark, which, at its most extreme, is called nyctophobia.

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Traffic Light at Night, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK © Tim Hurst / Masterfile

Traffic Light at Night, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK © Tim Hurst / Masterfile

Forest road and milky way at night, British Columbia, Canada © Masterfile

Forest road and milky way at night, British Columbia, Canada © Masterfile

While full of mysteries and dangers, night is also a time of loosening inhibitions as well as blossoming creativity. This is partly due to the fact that our frontal lobes don’t put the brakes on the wild and wacky thoughts that occur to us as we burn through the last bits of our energy for the day. Night owl? Your most creative time may actually be early morning.

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Woman Hiding from Man © Arian Camilleri / Masterfile

Woman Hiding from Man © Arian Camilleri / Masterfile

Flock of white geese in foggy field © Ben Seelt / Masterfile

Flock of white geese in foggy field © Ben Seelt / Masterfile

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