Night And Darkness Speech

INTRODUCTION
What does it remind you of, when you hear the word “DARK” or “NIGHT”? What do you first picture of or feel? Perhaps something drab and dreary, completely black and gloomy? Or an essence of an eerie presence, or something that stirs up a feeling of terror in you? I’m sure many of you might even end up forming an image of a grotesque ghostly figure in your minds walking towards you, inducing trepidation and horror in you. You are not to be held guilty to have had thought of nights and darkness this way. Such beliefs have always been a stereotype about them, notions that people have been holding on to, since time immemorial.
Well, nights and darkness have always been connected with spine-chilling and spooky feelings like dread and

Why are we so afraid of darkness? What is the reason so as to why we fear to be alone at

Our eyes have special cells called ‘rod’ cells and ‘cone’ cells, which undergo a chemical reaction in the presence of light and build up the image in a membrane behind our eye called the retina, which is transported to the brain by the optic nerves. The chemical reaction that the rod and cone cells undergo helps us to identify the vivid colours and dimensions of the objects around us and hence, form an image of our surrounding. Since nights are dark and generally are devoid of any source of light, the chemical reaction does not take place, which renders the rod and cone cells inactive. Thus we lose our ability to see, that is, our capability of visualization of objects is almost nullified when we are in the dark. So, the human brain, on its own, makes up uncanny images of objects and people that are not really there. This provokes a feeling in us of the presence of something supernatural or spooky around us, which leaves us