…:: Disclaimer ::…
(I consider myself to be aligned to the light. At least that is what I strive to be even though when I strive to be I never feel like I am really there yet, so I keep striving and understand as a human I am rather gray at times.)
Well I am not so sure was to what you mean by in reality, or in the flesh... well I do, but I don't exactly agree with the same ideals as you... (1. will get back to this later...)
In dreamland I definately have come across creatures of a dimmer light, shadow creatures, darkness if you will.... I refer to them as the people of the night, lords of illusion... (because for me they usually appear when it's a night time scene loaded, and because they disguise themselves very well)... actually I had a semi lucid dream last night regarding one... and others in the past...(2. will get back to this later)... I am still exploring their existence, as I am curious to their purpose; their role; and their allowance to persist...which brings me too...
Where I stand now is that I know that without the light there can be no darkness, and without the darkness there can be no light. Well they can exist without the other, yet it would be hard to understand oneself without something else to compare yourself too. (and boring to exist too..)
Ying and Yang, Give and Take, Push and Pull, Ebb and Flow. While we may not understand it directly their existence has a purpose. There has and will always be both sides to the equation, and a little grey place inbetween. Those that are neither really light or dark, or that are light but not so light, and those that are dark, but not that dark. Like a dark that you look at and pat them on the head and say, "ahhh how cute, you're so dark."
Take a sine-wave for example. A sine wave has a peak, a valley, and a middle point inbetween the too. However, the highs, the lows, and the middle are all one thing. The sine-wave.
I feel the same goes for those that are light, and those that are dark, while we may not understand eachother, (or I may not understand it now) we are all one in the same, a small part of a greater infinite understanding that even the most intelligent and benevolent beings of light, and the darkest dark darks don't completely comprehend.
*takes a shot of tequila*
So, it is a fact that they exist? But does that mean we should fear them? Get stressed out by them? Worry about them? Naw, they will always be, and so shall we. Maybe there will be a time in which it will seem less like a confusion and more like a never-ending-cosmic-game-of-quantum-dream-chess. Of course, as I stated when I started, this is what I feel about the dream land.
1. (return) -- Earth is and always has been bound by different rules as those as the dream realms. As humans we exist in a limited, finite reality, that exists separately from the rest of the universe. Our gift is choice, the choice to choose light, or dark, or nothing at all. While I wish that this existence was not easily permeable by those of a higher conscious I suppose it is possible that people may cheat while playing the game. If you believe that creatures of a higher dark exist in a human form then you must also know that there are creatures of a higher light exploiting the same loopholes. (i.e. sine-wave; one must exist with if the other does here)
*sips another half shot of tequila*
I think I shall end my ramblings here... Although, I love these types of discussions, and have many more thoughts on the subject...