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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. Yavarum Nalam - Wikipedia

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    Produced by Suresh Balaje and George Pius, the film was simultaneously shot in Hindi as 13B: Fear Has a New Address with a slightly different cast. It was also later dubbed into Telugu as 13-Padamoodu , [ 4 ] featuring a few scenes reshot with Ravi Babu .

  5. Childhood phobia - Wikipedia

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    Acute states of fear can elicit counterproductive physiological reactions such as trembling, profuse perspiration, faint feelings, weakness in joints and muscles, nausea, diarrhea, and disturbances in motor coordination" [5] It is not uncommon for frightened or anxious children to regress in a phase of development.

  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. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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]