God is light, in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
~1 John 1:5-6

What is darkness? What does he mean by darkness? I mean, I am in the dark every single night. I find it hard to sleep unless there is total darkness - pitch black.

Stupid answer. I know what the writer is saying, but I want it defined. I don't want a Christianese scripted answer. I don't want a metaphorically symbolic bunch of hooey. I want the baseline, dirty, gritty, grounded answer.
Maybe want isn't the correct terminology.
I need.
There, that's much closer.

Am I in the dark?

(NOT a rhetorical question...)