Fear of Dark

No, darkness is but a ghost of an idea, the least remembered, most estranged prayer, and your fear but a lingering, limbic fear torn from shreds of forgotten years.

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“Forgiving the Darkness” Song by Ashley Young and Ric O'Shea: https://ashleydaydreaming.bandcamp.com/track/forgiving-darkness Adapted from the poem by Alice B. Fogel

Thumbnail Painting: “Deimos,” used with permission from Dragan Bibin: https://www.draganbibin.com/

Additional Footage by Timmm: https://www.youtube.com/@timmm_

Additional Voice by “Voice of Czath”

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“Darkness,” Lord Byron, 1816

Additional footage used from the games NaissanceE (2014), Space Engine (2024), and Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

Music Used (Chronologically): Francesco (Aerian), To Be Still (By Lotus), Reve D’Enfant (Magnus Ludvigsson), Done For (Christian Anderson), Lemniscate (Ethan Sloan), A Massive Mist (Ethan Sloan), Ear to the Ground (Hanna Lindgren), Arbitrary Treatment (Prozody), Tokyo Screams (Farrell Wooten), Control Sample (Skyra), Bitter Swirl (Line Neesgaard), Shapes of Shadows (Franz Gordon), Première Prise (Vincent Leibovitz), Who’s There (Franz Gordon), Ode to Joy (Ludwig van Beethoven), Sudden Signs (Ethan Sloan), Prisms (Ethan Sloan), Onus (Ethan Sloan), Kobicha (Arden Forest), Forgiving the Darkness (Ashley Young)

Additional music and effects from Getty Images, Epidemic Sound, Reuters Archive, and Storyblocks

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Forgiving the Darkness” by Alice B. Fogel