I still can’t find any satisfactory rational explanation for why so many people find moonlight romantic, myself included. For some, it extends to any kind of dim light, and they theorize that this is because, with the picture ahead of you being less clear, your brain has to “fill in the blanks”, and you can do that in any way you want.
However, I can’t stand candlelight, or dim lamps, for that matter. Although I do like artificial light sources that embellish the color white and make it look shiny, but that’s different—I like it for being surreal, not romantic.
Apparently, the word “moon” has become so associated in my mind with the words “lucid” and “dream” that whenever I hear one of them, the other two immediately spring up as well.
I like snowy winter nights, especially when there’s no cold wind. I like to stand under snowfall, with moonlight illuminating the surrounding snowdrifts and trees, turn on my player and listen to my favorite Mai-Otome songs, which almost seem to be designed to be heard that way. I want to hear Otome wa DO MY BEST deshou! on New Year’s Day, while I’m eating the traditional food.
When the moon is visible from my room at night, which (unfortunately) doesn’t happen often, I like to pull the curtains open, letting moonlight flow into the room, and lie naked under it, first on my back and then on my stomach, looking at the light caressing my skin. I’ve been doing that since 15, and this real-life fascination is where my character’s obsession with moonbaths in WoW stems from.