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Hello. My name is the Daniel MacLean and i'm afraid of the dark. It's a fear i've had since...
as far back as I can remember. I can't remember...
ever not being afraid of the dark. But tonight I'm going to face this fear. Tonight what..
i'm going to do is i'm going to stay
in one of the darkest places in the house which is the basement.
I'm gonna stay in there for about ten minutes straight. Five minutes with a few lights
and five minutes with no light except for the light shinning on my face
You ready, Debra? 0:00:33:000,0:00:34:000 DEBRA: Yep 0:00:34:200,0:00:36:000 Alright...
I'm alone by myself, here...
I've got a lot more light
a lot more light than i was uh... intending
Was not intending this much light. So, what we'll do is in next five minutes
I'm gonna turn...uh...
and turn off this light right here
It's a really hot light
yeah, so...
This is what I see...hang on.
it's not....
it's not very pitch black, but yeah..
there's the camera
watching my movement...
It's about...
ten fifty seven so, in about five minutes
so
i'm okay right now it's just you know
nothing...
nothing too...
scary about it right now
i guess i'll explain a little bit about my fear. It's just i've always-
being alone is something...
something that i've
never been a big fan of...especially in the dark
still trying to adjust this here...
i'm not sure
in particular
especially being alone in when it's quiet
uh... I think...
there's something about that that just really terrifying being
by yourself alone and just
I know i'm not really alone
uh... in a sense of that, you know, i believe in god i believe he's with me
I believe in jesus...I believe he's going to protect me from whatever. But there's always this irrational fear that there's something else out there...
and
you know...i think a lot of its my imagination to
i can hear...
Debra's upstairs. She's going to turn on the light, though...
once the time is up
Once the timer rings.
that's the other thing...
about the whole thing about being in the darkest
you're all alone...
you're surrounded by insecurity
you have no idea what's going on- Two more minutes
Until lights out. 0:03:54:000,0:03:59:000 Can you tell I'm afraid? (chuckles) Oh, my...
um...
i think one thing that scares me about that room is it's just so uh... even though
there's light here, there's still dark...you know
it's the whole monster in the closet thing which
I can't believe I'm talking about that..it's...
it's irrational because obviously i know there's nothing in there but my mind
thinks there is.
I don't know...
this is crazy. and here i was originally i was gonna do...
was originally going to twenty minutes
yeah...can't believe originally I was going to do twenty minutes...
eleven o'clock
Was really hoping to do this- (phone alarm)
all right
Alright. Here we go. Lights out.
I don't know if you can see me
maybe you can see this
This is crazy
here's the light by the computer...it's all I have...
spiders
spiders is one of my other fears...
i don't know...
there's something about which is very sinister very creepy
and
i know this basement has spiders
sorry bout that, um
there's...um
I'm just paralyzed right now...
there's the light blinding in my eyes.
I don't know if you can hear that there is uh...
water running through the drains
you know that's that's the rational thing is that there is water that runs-
there-there's a sump pump
sometimes that runs through...
the basement and sometimes, it makes loud noises...
it sounds like-...every now and than sounds like shuffling.
this is just so surreal. I'm sorry
hang on..I'm going to take this off.
this is too much. I'm sorry
I think that's the (upstairs) timer.
In a few minutes ago I can hear Debra with the camera... 0:08:36:000,0:08,41:000 in background (phone alarm)
alrighty
I did it...it's over...