Signs, God, revelations, numerology, astrology, dreams, magical thinking I don’t know about you, but the ego over here wants to know. It hates uncertainty, and it will go with anything half-reasonable to get away from uncertainty. I think that is what we hate about the dark. That we don’t know if our next step is going to be OK, or going to get into trouble. The trouble is that there is no way to reliably predict anything.