i am afraid of the dark.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among children and, to a varying degree, adults. Fear of the dark is usually not a fear of darkness itself, but a fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by darkness. Some degree of fear of the dark is natural, especially as a phase of child development. Most observers report that fear of the dark seldom appears before the age of 2 years. When fear of the dark reaches a degree that is severe enough to be considered pathological, it is sometimes called scotophobia (from \u03c3\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u2013 \"darkness\"), or lygophobia (from \u03bb\u03c5\u03b3\u03ae \u2013 \"twilight\"). Some researchers, beginning with Sigmund Freud, consider the fear of the dark to be a manifestation of separation anxiety disorder. An alternate theory was posited in the 1960s, when scientists conducted experiments in a search for molecules responsible for memory. In one experiment, rats, normally nocturnal animals, were conditioned to fear the dark and a substance called \"scotophobin\" was supposedly extracted from the rats' brains; this substance was claimed to be responsible for remembering this fear. These findings were subsequently debunked. Nyctophobia is a phobia characterized by a severe fear of the dark.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Are you afraid of the dark? I am. Fear of the dark is natural though in most cases, especially in children."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not really! I do watch a lot of horror movies though! So that can make me scared. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Horror film try to make you think about your nightmares, fears, and the unknown. So, it makes sense that it scares people. They scare me sometimes too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I recently saw Hereditary and it scared the pants off me!  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My friend was just telling me about that movie! Was it good? A lot of the plots in the horror genre involve an evil force or event. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "YEs, it was fantastic but terrifying!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Horror films often overlap with supernatural fiction. Did Hereditary do that?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yes, definitely. "}]