People do different things in the dark than they do in the light. There is no question, for example, that it is easier to be intimate, psychologically as well as physically, in the dark. People say things to one another in dim or no light that they will not say in the bright light of day or electricity. We reveal our inner selves to others in lower light. In addition, quite simply, we slow down. We cannot move as quickly in the dark. The manic pace of day must be broken. In the dark, our imaginations have freer reign and we are more apt to sing, recite or write poetry, or simply daydream than we are in the prosaic light from a bulb.
— Gary Eberle, Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning