Well. My dog just died today, at 1:30 AM. Despite the rain, me and my family manged to bury him.
I have an emptiness inside.
One thing to always remember about a dog, is that so long as you were around it and gave it affection when it died, it was happy. It was likely in pain, but so long as it's master was there with it at the time or was with it before it slept, it was as happy as can be. There is no reason you should not feel the same way.
I wish I never read http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1120 reminds me of the "noise" I see in the dark.
I'm scared :O no sleep tonight again.
Don't be. I've actually been halfway tempted to start up a visual snow thread to see how many other folks here have it/have experienced it.
It took my almost two decades to realize that it wasn't how most other people saw the world, heh. I'm semi-lucky as it didn't onset for me; seem to have been born with it. A lot less distracting when it's the only thing you know, yeah.
But yeah the dark was fucking terrifying for a long time. Giant multicolored amoeba-things larger than you floating around is not conducive to untroubled sleep. Eventually figured out they weren't going to eat me, though!
If that happens to me at all it's usually when my eyes are adjusting to low-light conditions from being outside. Some times I'll even see little floating particles in my peripheral vision at these times. Like dust particles, but shining and winking out of sight as they enter my field of view with strange, dancing, swerving movements.
Actually, this sounds a lot like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-sky_sprites or floaters after reading the article, and here I was hoping that I was special.
Ho-hum