I’m 41 years old and I’m really scared of.. (trigger warning)
..the dark.
I’ve always been scared of the dark but 7 years ago I was SA. I had fallen asleep (I was at my then friend’s apartment) and woke up because someone was penetrating me. And I was so shocked I froze. He eventually stopped, I think I started to cry and that shocked him. We are no longer friends.
I can no longer sleep in the same room as a man, I start twitching like crazy.
Last year, early October, something changed and since then I sleep with the light on. Sometimes even though the light is on I’m too scared to go to the bathroom.
I don’t know what changed that made me so afraid (for more than 5 years I didn’t need the light turned on at night).
I have never told anyone what happened that night and that I sleep with the lights on now.