Are you afraid of the dark?

Fear of the dark in adulthood, the danger of malfunctioning LED street lamps, the Dark Sky movement, and Dark Sky conference replays.

It’s easy to embrace the first half of the Brighter Days, Darker Nights equation. Brighter days are associated with optimism, goodness, and improvement.

Do you think of darkness as the opposite of lightness? Photo by Jben Beach Art.

Yet, even though both are equally part of nature, we don’t always see such positive associations when it comes to darker ni…