Oddbean new post about login | logout Sure, ghosts and witches are spooky, but the real horror of Halloween is staring down the barrel of several months of darkness and cold knowing your already severe depression is about to level up 🎃
@25b5e014 that’s why we have all these winter festivals. Halloween, whatever you want to call the one in late December, the stuff that goes on in January and February.. Winter is dark and cold. Humans need these events as points of emotional, and literal, light to get them through to spring 😊
@25b5e014 Lordy. I understand that. That's a big reason why I had to get me a therapy light and make sure I have plenty of vitamin D suppliments. They help!
@25b5e014 BOOOOooOoOoOoOo!!!
@25b5e014 To lighten the mood a little. Here's my staircase owl dressed up for last year's Halloween: https://pixelfed.social/p/steinarb/493012879853938135
@25b5e014 There's something about the Halloween time of year — somehow the membrane between aspects of our mind gets thinner and more permeable. The darker creepy crawlies can sneak through into our normal mind. It's no accident they made this holiday at this time of year. One source of solace: at least they got that right, making Halloween at the end of October.