Afraid of ghosts

It was a thread originally created in the Sleeping Issues and Dream Interpretation, but I noticed that it fits better here.

In the past few weeks I've been waking up at 3:00am for no reason and felt fear of(this will sound ridiculous, but oh well...) ghosts or evil supernatural beings. That's pretty much the reason why my lights are on at my bedroom, sometimes I even end up by calling my father to stay with me until I sleep again(he always gone away before I slept because of how quiet I stayed in my bed) and so them, the fear gets worse(it gets a little better when there's someone else with me).

I'm already used to sleep alone with the lights off, but the fear that I always feel during those nights doesn't let me stay alone in the dark for too long. Actually, I am unable to stay alone at my own house for too long at night because of that. It begins with me hearing things and then I keep on getting far more scared as the time goes by. I've been avoiding getting in contact with horror related stuff which I unfortunately like a lot to not have this problem.

I don't know why that's happening, I haven't seen anything so scary at the point of making me wake up in the middle of the night for no reason. And when I say for no reason, I really mean no reason at all. I don't have any nightmare or any sound loud enough to make me get up. There was one day that I suspect that I had a nightmare, but that I was unable to remember though. I woke up suddely gasping for air, I noticed that my neck was sweating too. I was very scared that night. I didn't even hesitate to call someone and say that I was afraid of ghosts.

What a childish fear... I wished there was some efficient way to stop having this fear while I was alone in the dark.

I watched a really scary movie about ghosts two nights ago and for the past two nights I've had to sleep with a dim light on in my bedroom. When I was younger, I used to get so freaked out at night, I would end up running into my parent's bedroom. Ask yourself this question - If they were so evil, wouldn't they have harmed you by now? Wouldn't they have reached out and touched you by now? Wouldn't they have said "OOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA!" by now? If they haven't chances are they either aren't there, or they're friendly ghosts.

You're right, but looks like my brain still can't understand that. I tried so many times putting that in my head, worked just very few moments thanks to those creepypastas.