Bathophobia. Fear of Depths. At some point in my childhood, I developed this fear. It wasn't much of a problem in the real world, but in my dreams I could never approach a large body of water without triggering a nightmarish event of some kind. Oftentimes the event would include a gargantuan creature of some variety, erupting from the depths to drag me under.
I never had one so bad that I would wake up in a state of panic, but the images would nevertheless go on to haunt me for a goodly amount of time after the fact. It was enough that I frequently dreaded going to sleep, knowing that I might have another chance encounter with some faceless terror from the depths...
Well, it didn't occur to me until last night that these nightmares stopped shortly after I started playing Sea of Thieves. Maybe the countless hours of sailing around all by myself had something to do with it. Or maybe something in my mind "clicked" after my friends and I were first successful in driving off the Kraken. Whatever it was, I'm positive that it couldn't have been accomplished without this game and the community that surrounds it. So to the people here, and to the Sea of Thieves developers, I just want to say...
