by Brian C. Joondeph, American Thinker:

Children fear the dark as it is scary. They believe it’s filled with monsters and bogeymen.

As a child, I always wanted my bedroom door kept open with a light on in the hall. That way I felt safe, at least from the wild rides of my imagination.

Such irrational fears disappear when we leave early childhood, yet for some, these fantasies persist into adulthood. For adults, is this a mental illness or just a personality quirk of paranoia and irrational fear?