For me when I hear the word shadow I get super creepy vibes from it. On halloween my older cousins would always tell spooky stories about shadow people and would try to scare me. Shadow people are simply shadows that look like people out of the corner of your eye. Even though nothing may be there, these shadow people can be very real to the people who have experienced seeing one of these things. This is extremely terrifying to me!! I would definitely not want to be someone who has seen one of these. Usually it is just people’s eyes playing tricks on them but there are stories out there with extreme detail about seeing one of these shadow people. Your peripheral vision is usually the cause for “seeing” one of these but more recently people have been seeing these with more detail making it very believable. Many people are very skeptical of these shadow people. People say that it could just be due to someones sleep paralysis, if they are in an extreme emotional state, or if they are sleep deprived. Or it could be just your peripheral vision playing tricks on you, which makes sense. There are rumors that these shadow people could be either aliens, or ghosts, or demons. There is also said to be a shadow person called “The Hat Man” and he is said to be seen wearing a top hat and a suit. The whole concept of shadow people in generally is just super creepy and scary to me!
Night: an element of air, of water, of earth, the antithesis of fire? Macauley’s chapter invites the reader to consider the daily cycling through darkness as more than a simple turn of the planet away from the sun.
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The Hurricane Sandy disaster that hit Long Island on October 29th, 2012 plunged most of us in darkness, a darkness even more overwhelming given the time of year as each day was shorter, each night longer. Without the comfort and warmth of power, we huddled around candles, flashlights, fireplaces (those lucky one). Alas the cloud covered skies deprived us of that chance to see the night sky revealed as so beautifully described by Diane Ackerman. Now, a bit over a year later, we still remember those dark days. As we move beyond the time change and night comes all that sooner in our afternoon hours, what does night mean for us in a world of “light pollution?”
