Primal fears

Cycling home in the dark without a light today was quite exciting, it soon brought out various primal fears partly genetically imprinted and partly imprinted by various cautionary fairy tales and anecdotes.

If you distance yourself from them and try to observe them analytically they are much easier to control and can be debunked much more quickly. It is fun to observe your brain trying to inject sense into the more or less dark grey shapes your eyes are transmitting to it. My brain mostly focused on natural predators, and never got away into fantasy, probably because I did not cave in to fears and just kept going.

So next time you feel you might succumb to your fears try observing them rationally and analysing them, it might help.