[ CW ] Keep me up at night without using any characters .

Think back to when you were a little kid, surely you were afraid of the dark or something similar, the space under your bed, or the dark depths of your closet, maybe. 
 Now think of why you were afraid, maybe you thought something was hidden back there, some monster, demon, or ghost that was going to emerge from the unknown and grab you. The mind of a child is much more unfiltered than our adult mind, and it can go to scary places. It can create two headed monsters that lurk in the shadows, waiting to tear our little bodies limb from limb, demons that can possess our bodies. 
 Was it just the darkness that scared us? No, of course not. There were the noises, the noises that we could n't quite explain, but Mom and Dad always knew the answer. `` It's just the wind,'' they'd say. `` We live in an old house, it creaks sometimes.'' But how did they know? Surely they'd hear the same explanations from their parents when they were kids. But the same story goes for them, how did they know? 
 
 How do we know that at some point in our collective family tree that someone did n't just make up a story to rationalize the reality? Lots of people throughout all ages believed in monsters, ghosts and demons. So why did we stop? What turned us away from these beliefs? Did the beliefs stop because we learned what was really happening? Did we simply come up with `` rational'' answers to deal with this real fear? 
 
 Maybe children are the only ones who see this real world, the real monsters, not the grown up answers that have been drilled into our heads. But, maybe there are some who can see the world through the eyes of a child, and write books about killer clowns, make movies about men in hockey-masks or killers who prey on the dreamers. Maybe we can see this world too, when we dream or have a nightmare. Maybe the `` real world' is the imagined one, and the monsters and ghosts are the real world. 
 
 So, when it's 3 AM and you're trying to sleep in the unknowable and eerie darkness of your room. Try not to see the world through the eyes of a child, it's much safer that way.
