Fear of the dark is not supernatural. It is inherited survival machinery.

A false alarm cost energy; a missed threat cost a life. Selection favoured the cautious. Your amygdala still runs that protocol tonight.

Myth: something hides in the dark.
Fact: only ancestral vigilance.

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