DREAMNET #3 - ????????

[perchancetodreammods]

DREAMNET

Welcome to DreamNet!
To assist you in your goal of making meaningful connections, once in a while, you'll be asked a fun question or prompted to play a lighthearted game designed to spark conversation, with the opportunity to share your answers with fellow dreamers!

Today's question is...

[ERROR: no input data from admin user LUXSOMNIUM. Continue anyway?]

Create your own [DATA NOT FOUND] question to pick your fellow dreamers' brains!

Post this in a comment to participate!

[WARNING: question prompt not found. No response from admin user LUXSOMNIUM has overridden the prompt requirement. Users will be required to create their own prompt question in order to proceed.]


<center><table style="text-align: center; padding: 15px; width: 600px;"> <tr style="border-radius: 15px; box-shadow: 1px 3px 4px #cecece; padding: 15px 5px;"><td style="border-radius: 15px 0 0 15px; text-align: center; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: 400; background: #485C83; padding-top: 15px; color: #fff;"><img src="CHARACTER IMG URL" style="border-radius: 50%;"> [CHARACTER NAME] ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅</td> <td style="border-radius: 0 15px 15px 0; background: #fff; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="text-align: justify; min-height: 120px !important; padding: 20px 10px; font-size: 1.1em; font-family: garamond;"><span style="font-family: garamond; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: italic;">My question is...</span> <span style="font-family: garamond;">[ANSWER HERE] <i>What do you think?</i></span></div></td></tr> </table></center>

code

Comments

[uselessdandy]

The dark, particularly given I have very good night vision.

[itsjustabaddream]

That is peculiar! The fear of the dark is often rooted in the fear of what cannot be seen. Would you say that's still the root of it for you, despite your night vision? Or is there something else about the dark that you find unsettling?

Forgive me for prying, I'm just picking your brain, but if I overstep, you needn't answer.

[uselessdandy]

No need for apology, seeing as I was the one to answer your initial inquiry, it would be rather pointless of me not to give some detail.

I was required, as part of my employment, to spend a fair portion of my time in close quarters with someone who found it amusing to use her own innate talents given by her blood to appear at my side without warning. Despite the fact she could do this regardless of the hour, I found as time passed that I felt more concern about her doing this in the absence of light, and that this anxiety has, inexplicably, only grown since her death.

[itsjustabaddream]

Ahh. Yes, the mind is a strange thing. I think in some ways, this too is rooted in that primal fear of Not Knowing. The anticipation of being unable to predict when something startling is going to happen. The idea that someone who already takes joy in frightening you might take advantage of other elements of surprise. And in the dark, she could very well be there long before you even notice her. Yes, I think with this context, there's nothing too odd about this fear.

[uselessdandy]

Truly? I thought quite the opposite, and have spent many hours trying to reason with myself on the matter. Which is probably quite a mad thing to be doing in itself, for I'd have no reason to remind myself of all the reasons I shouldn't be anxious if I wasn't.

But then, I never was what one would call brave, so I suppose it is to be expected someone who stopped being able to harm pester anyone nearly two years ago would continue to vex my nerves.