Fear
... Fear. ... What brought this particular fear about? ... The fear of darkness, also called Achluophobia, is a common fear developed amongst people now a days. The fear of darkness can inevitably lead to Nyctohylophobia, fear of night/going out at night. Some contributing factors that can lead to creating this acquired fear are that of related fears, surroundings, and awareness of crime and violence. ... Easy, in the dark one doesn’t know what is going on; fear of the unknown. A loud noise is heard, it stimulates fear. A thought arouses; a fear of thinking known as phonemophobia, “is someone there?”- fear of being followed. ... Myers, author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils, believes “we fear what our ancestral history has prepared us to fear, we fear what we cannot control, we fear whats immediate, and we fear whats most readily available in memory.” If one is in a well lit, residential area, chances are there will be less of a likelihood of having a fear of that area. ... There was nothing for me to fear except forgetting the pooper-scooper in case the dog wandered into the neighbors’ yard!