This is pretty embarassing but it's a real problem I have. I've always been kind of weary of the dark because I have an overactive imagination. But lately it's been bothering me more than usual because of all the stuff I've been reading on Erin's site. A lot of what she says comforts me but other things scare the heck out of me, like astral vampires, ghosts, harmful entities...The thought of all that being real scares me so bad.
I REALLY don't want to believe in any of those but I take Erin's word on everything else, and it doesn't make sense to pick and choose what I want to believe.
So basically, I'm just always imagining something's out to get me when I'm in the dark and it's truly frightening. It's not really the darkness itself that I fear...more like how I can't see when I'm in it, and how I feel vulnerable, like anything can come get me. I used to tell myself that ghosts and whatnot don't exist and that would calm me considerably, but I can't even tell myself that now. And the noises and bumps I hear at night sometimes don't help at all.
Is there any way I can stop being afraid?