Why is darkness scary?

[Lt. Dragunov]

That game was not scary at all. It was complete crap.

I he means the essence of darkness not the game.

I he was making a joke. The question has already been answered too extensively.

well excuuuuse me D=
typo I know

 

[thehoff]

I guess we just feel safe being aware of our surroundings. When something stops us from doing that it is in our nature to be slightly fearful, its survival after all. In the wild we might fall of cliffs or something in the dark, or there might be predators around us we were unaware of.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

Because it makes black people invisible.

I'm joking, I'm not really racist, I've got a Public Enemy t-shirt and everything.

Please don't ban me.

 

[The Hairminator]

because we can't see in it. /thread

 

[ZSF]

I prefer the dark to the daylight. Really bright light bulbs are cool though.

 

[khaimera]

That game was not scary at all. It was complete crap.

I he means the essence of darkness not the game.

I he was making a joke. The question has already been answered too extensively.

well excuuuuse me D=
typo I know

Its cool. I thought the typo was pretty funny. Then I thought maybe i'm just stupid and didn't get it.

I thought this post needed some more jokes since the question is way too easy to answer.

 

[Feralbreed]

Because it makes black people invisible.

I'm joking, I'm not really racist, I've got a Public Enemy t-shirt and everything.

Please don't ban me.

I won't

Obama FTW.

 

[ninja555]

clowns hide in the darkness

 

[Gmano]

I have very good eyesight and nightvision for a human, I actually like the dark. However I do find very dark area's an inconvenience to travel through, and I'll admit, i am a lil more "alert" (read jumpy) in pitch black (less so than most, but I would be lying if i said i was as comfortable as in light)

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Darkness is a potential hiding place. Haven't games taught you anything? If something doesn't want you to see it it hides in the dark!

Personally I find it scary only when I previously have been creeped out by something, like NOW! I swear if the lights go out now they will find my frozen corpse in the morning! Fuck you internet and your scary shit! Sorry...

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

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!

DOn't forget the pterodactyl goverment, there a problem too.

 

[The Infinite]

As many people have probably already said before, one does not fear the dark. Instead we fear what my be IN the dark. We fear the unknown and well the dark can obscure the unknown.

 

[Madara XIII]

It is not the darkness itself that frightens man, but what we PERCEIVE in the dark, whether it be a reflection of our fears, ourselves, or our overactive imaginations.

We fear what may lurk within that darkness, be it real or fictional.

Darkness itself is not scary, but the mind of humans is what makes it such an unwelcome and disturbing place to reside.



and with that said....

CACTUAR TIME!!!

FEAR THE CACTUS!!

 

[FalloutJack]

Actually, as a light-sensitive individual, I'm at home in the dark. Can see alright in it too.

 

[smithy_2045]

Since when was darkness scary?

 

[Freethinker101]

Well, darkness is technically all around us. What makes it scary is the unknown, or the fact we tend to see stuff, or that a creature (wolf,bear or cougar) might attack us when we are walking. Maybe after years of constant electrical light, were afraid to coming to the realization that one day we maybe in the dark for years to come. Though not much can be explained for those who are afraid, or maybe it is the realization we might be robbed, or killed, but if you think about it, when you were young you were afraid of a goblin or a boogieman in your closet, when you got older you were afraid of a burglar, maybe some people will forever be terrified of their surroundings in after hours.

 

[unholy weasels]

i liked the part in bioshock 2 where i walked around a corner and saw a hanging corpse and a couple of dead bodies i ignored it and walked into a kitchen, the music climaxed and went quiet for heaps long. i decided there was nothing interesting left and turned around to see that the hanging corpse that was there before was no longer there a stepped out and was attacked by three splicers freaked the crap outta me

 

[unholy weasels]

also its not the darkness that scares us its what the darkness hides.