The psychological experience of “Dark Nights of the Soul” are sometimes recorded as part of the contemplative’s journey. These can be short or long periods of spiritual dryness, confusion, pain, and mental fragmentation or multiplicity. What distinguishes these experiences from daily ups and downs is that they seem to come as a result of a serious spiritual practice or path. The soul feels it has genuinely chosen the good, and yet it suffers intensely. In some traditions, these experiences of Dark Nights are interpreted as a necessary part of the development of the soul.