{"id":6851,"date":"2014-08-02T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:32:24","slug":"in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6851","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be afraid of the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turn the lights on or you’ll ruin your eyes!<\/p>\n

We paid the electric bill. You can turn some lights on. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For as long as I can remember, people have been chastising me for my fondness for sitting around in the dark. My grandmother, my mother, Mark…<\/p>\n

As I write this, I’m sitting in the twilight with only the light from my iPad to see by. <\/p>\n

It’s often how I read. <\/p>\n

Or listen to music. <\/p>\n

Or think. <\/p>\n

I find the dark reassuring.
\nCalming.
\nIt helps me concentrate.
\nI find it peaceful.<\/p>\n

I love sitting in the semi darkness, but the minute i get in bed to go to sleep, I am afraid of vampires. I am not afraid of them while I am in the same bed in the same dark reading or writing. Only when I lay down to go to sleep. I am afraid of them even though I know perfectly well that they do not exist. <\/p>\n

To make my irrational fear even sillier I also believe that if I have a sheet pulled up around my neck a vampire can’t get me. Because…er…vampires can’t bite through Percale. Much like garlic. <\/p>\n

There is just no applying logic to an irrational fear. Believe me, I have tried. <\/p>\n

In my own defense, I laugh at myself when I catch myself pulling the sheets up around my neck. When it’s hot, sometimes most of my body is uncovered, except for my neck and shoulders. <\/p>\n

Because a vampire would not be able to just drag me out of bed by an uncovered leg to get me out of the Percale Protective System. <\/p>\n

If a vampire ever does come after me, he is going to laugh too hard to bite me. <\/p>\n

That is the ultimate protection. <\/p>\n

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