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  2. Fear of the dark - Wikipedia

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    Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among toddlers, children and, to a varying degree, adults. A fear of the dark does not always concern darkness itself; it can also be a fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by darkness. Most toddlers and children outgrow it, but this fear persists for some with scotophobia and anxiety.

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear of darkness: Acousticophobia: fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia: Acrophobia: fear of heights Aerophobia: fear of aircraft or flying: Agoraphobia: fear of certain inescapable/unsafe situations Agyrophobia: fear of crossing streets Aichmophobia: fear of sharp or pointed objects such as a needle or knife: Ailurophobia: fear/dislike of ...

  4. Oneirophobia - Wikipedia

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    Oneirophobia (from Greek όνειρο (oneiro), meaning "dream", and φόβος (), meaning "fear") is the fear of dreams.It is discussed in The Dream Frontier, a book by Mark Blechner, a neuro-psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute.

  5. The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was

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    The boy tricked the cats and trapped them with the cutting board and knife. Black cats and dogs emerged from every patch of darkness in the room, and the boy fought and killed each of them with his knife. Then, from the darkness, a bed appeared. He lay down on it, preparing for sleep, but it began walking all over the castle.

  6. Tamas (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    ' darkness ') is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and sattva (purity, goodness). Tamas is the quality of inertia, inactivity, dullness, or lethargy.

  7. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Death anxiety can mean fear of death, fear of dying, fear of being alone, fear of the dying process, etc. [29] Different people experience these fears in differing ways. There continues to be confusion on whether death anxiety is a fear of death itself or a fear of the process of dying. [30]

  8. Horror fiction - Wikipedia

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    One of H. P. Lovecraft's most famous quotes about the genre is that: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." [36] the first sentence from his seminal essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature".

  9. Nirṛti - Wikipedia

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    The name nirṛti has the meaning of "absence of ṛta", meaning 'disorder', or 'lawlessness', specifically the guardian to the absence of divine or cosmic disorder. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This term was used in Vedic texts to indicate a realm of non-existence and absolute darkness, which threatened to consume those who failed in their duties to sacrifice ...