Why do possibilities that seem absurd during the day, seem so frighteningly possible at night?

Question

For example ghosts, alien abductions, monsters under the bed, etc...

Answer 1

A couple of reasons

Fear of the unknown - our eyesite diminishes at night and we lose one of our most important senses.

Sound - there is less activity around which highlights sounds, our sight has decreased so our hearing increases to compensate.

Relaxing - due to resting or quiet activity, our body and mind become in tune - almost like a mild meditation session. This also allows you to slightly open your 6th sense allowing the visualization and ability to recognize supernatural events.
The hustle and bustle of daily life often makes you overlook most of these events if they occur during the day.

Light - many people look at the power of light which is good and the darkness which is evil.

Population - there are less people around at night, which highlights the "safety in numbers" theory

A combination of these factors will contribute to unexplained events or may freak you out a bit.

Answer 2

The evening is plenty quieter, the %. has slowed, and the recommendations isn't required to do as much because it grew to become right into some hours in the past. The recommendations is an organ basically like the middle so it quite is a complicated area of regulate. heavily, you ought to attempt deep rest techniques. You lie down for 20 minutes and turn off. It heavily works. Paul McKenna has some CDs on that undertaking. in my view, it labored for me. the undertaking won't disappear yet you will waiting to sit down down back and experience much less under pressure.

Answer 3

I scuba dive...... and for me it was the night dives that got me the most probably for the same reason you mention "night possibilities".

During the day our underwater visibility was probably 90-140 feet in all directions.... not much if you think about it, but very good compared to other dive spots around the world.

At night however, we could only see what our flashlights could point at and illuminate. We always dove in 6-8 person groups split up into 2 person dive-buddy teams. We all never really got used to night dives so we'd always swing our flashlights everywhere checking for "Jaws" or whatever....


Looking around at night...... underwater....... trying to grow eyes in the back of you head...... you'd see everyone else doing the same thing (swinging their flashlight all over the place).


It looked like the other six people in the distance all had lightsabers and were battling because you could see the beams stretch out for 40-60 feet or so in the murky waters then kinda vanish.

...... and those lightsaber beams were flip-flopping everywhere as everyone ELSE was checking for whatever scared them at night....

Answer 4

The dark of night and the light of day are not simply metaphors but fundamental to our experience. The neuropsychological effect of the cycle of day to night is profound, as is the effect of sleep onset (the hypnagogic state), fatigue and many other factors. At night our minds are suggestible and "dreamy," and we are free to imagine unseen forces and consider alternate realities. Dream consciousness cannot be underestimated; we live in many strange, absurd and impossible worlds as we sleep, and it should not surprise us that the night that calls us to dream is filled with absurd wonder and fear.

Answer 5

I swear I was the only person who felt this way! I don't know the answer, but I am glad to know that there is someone else laying there freaked out by the noises on the other side of the house.

Answer 6

It's the wee small hours. Your metabolism is at its lowest and slowest at about 3 am because mother nature designed you to be asleep at that time, not performing heroic feats. People cark most often at that time.

Answer 7

With a name like Ice Demon, you are associating yourself with the powers of Darkness. If you are being troubled, you need to stop kidding yourself, and leave that kind of thought alone.

Answer 8

My thoughts on the subject: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-lh_9.p0wdaGWW06CWXdS?p=22

(And yes, I express such thoughts best as sestinas. Although that one still needs work.)

Answer 9

without light your mind works overtime, trying to make sence of the sounds it hears. its fear of the unknown

Answer 10

For one, you are tired at night, so your mind isn't as sharp as it was.