It was Darkroom work that enabled me to loose my fear of the dark...I was afflicted with that issue since I was a young child.The Darkroom came along when I reached the age of 11. Now I don't fear the dark, only the things that can easily go bad at night.
Peter
The things that can go bad at night are legion!
I don't think I've ever had a seriously developed fear of the dark, only of the crimes that can be done under cover of the night. What I do have, and hadn't realised it until driving through France once and stopping off to pee in a forest out in the middle of nowhere, was that I hate forests. The car and wife were what - forty feet away at the roadside? - yet the absolute silence, the impossibility of seeing more than another thirty feet ahead was awful. I knew that if I turned around and forgot my bearings, I'd never get out of that damned place sane, or perhaps at all.
I don't remember now if I had or had not already seen the
Blair Witch Project. Probably not. If I had, I'd probably have hung on up to the next little town and bar!
Rob