What is your most unusual nighttime ritual?
I've been afraid of the dark since I was a little girl. I still am afraid of the dark. If I decide that I'm going to sleep in the dark that night, I have to make sure that I have the ability to get to my bed without walking throughout my room in complete darkness. I've been doing this weird ritual for as long as I can remember. The ritual goes as follows:
I must have my TV and my lamp turned on. If one is on and the other is not, then I will remedy that situation and turn the other on. First, I will turn off my lamp, leaving the TV on. The TV channel will be set to a preferable channel, such as Nickelodeon or something like that because there are hardly ever any dark commercials. That channel is always fairly lit. Next, I will crawl into my bed, with the TV remote. Reason for this is I have a strange fear that while I'm standing in front of my bed in the dark, I feel as if something (that I know logically isn't there) will reach its hand out from under the bed and grab my ankles. Crazy, I know. Thirdly, I will turn off the TV. Now, I am in complete darkness. Even then I am a little freaked out. So, finally, I throw the blanket up above my head for a decent amount of time in order for my eyes to get used to a darker place. Under my blanket darkness does not freak me out only because I know that there is nothing else under there with me. If there was, the blanket would be lifted in all sorts of strange ways.
Once that ritual is done, I will either remove the blanket, for now I can make out objects in my room better. (I tend not to look around too much if I do choose to do this option. Even though I can now see better, it's still the dark. Who knows what might pop out at you?) Sometimes, I fall asleep with the blanket over my head, so seeing in the dark is not an issue.
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