LCD - Day 10

As we've all learned in LCD lecture, light has the power to set and change the entire mood of the show.  It's actually been proven that people naturally talk quieter in dimly lit restaurants.  Yet there is something quite unnerving about total darkness.  Strangely, it's not a natural concept to us.  Unless if you've grown up in a completely remote farm, miles away from any civilization (in which case I don't think you would even have a connection to the internet), then you are not accustomed to witnessing complete darkness.  But even then you would still have the light from the moon and the stars.  So complete darkness just is not a natural concept to us.... except when we go to our bedroom.

If you are a college student with labs from 2100-0100 and especially 0100-0500, you hate the sun.  No, no, no, you loathe it.  So we make our bedrooms as dark as possible because I don't want to see the flipping sun any earlier than necessary, because, hey, I don't have class at all today and I do not want to be disturbed.

So we get home exhausted from lab, fall into bed, turn off the lights (this is my routine since I have a remote for my lights) and expect to be engulfed by darkness.

Except... there isn't darkness...

Remember how light can create and change moods?

Well, earlier, I was watching a movie on my laptop (not my mac), which I had the power cord plugged in - the tip of which glows blue.  (Again with blue lights....) And I had forgotten that it was on the floor at the foot of the bed.  So when turned off the light expecting to be met with complete black, I wasn't.


There was something there.  Something that shouldn't have been there.  That little blue LED was enough to change my mood from sleepy time, to shear terror.


My head started racing to try and figure out who or what was going to attack me and how they got into my apartment.  It took me quite the several seconds of pure schizophrenia before I had a mental facepalm and realized that it was just the laptop on the floor.

It really is interesting the reactions we have, even to the most insignificant amount of light, especially when it is the opposite of what we expect to see.