The dark Night is something that lasts for YEARS. The deepest darkest, most depressing time, devoid of almost all but the faintest glimmer of spiritual light.

You walk around like a miserable robot on autopilot just barely clinging to life and some don't, some loose their life or go mad.

And then some glimmer of hope but no you slide back down in deep and again, and again...

But then one day you start coming out and you battle back expect to slide/get dragged back in and yet make some progress and then some more and you are desperately trying to climb out and slowly but with some setbacks you keep overcoming you return to the Light! OMG! in the Light again after all those years! But still worried about falling back in, it's shaky but hold on tight and finally slowly you stabalize and relax and the Light just comes pouring in, pure bliss.

Phew!!!

It's a bad memory now that sometimes I even forget.

I'm not prone to depression or have mood swings or anything like that and usually very steady keel and happy, optomistic.

It sucked bad, I don't think I could live through that again...

You'll know it if/when it ever really happens to you.

Someone said when you come out of it you attain enlightenement like Bhudda or something like that. Well I'd say thats an exxageration/aggrandizement but their is no doubt stronger spiritually than ever and moving forward and upward with a passion.

Frater