Dark night of the soul Options

I have reason to believe i am going trough the dark night of the soul. Wich is fine and all that, but it causes me to feel like shit for the moment.
Everything, even death, seems hollow and boring to me.
I feel this intens feeling of unhappynes, sadness, melancholy if you will.
If you want a complete description of what exactly it is, google has good results.

Could anyone provide me with some guidance, so that i may awake from this night a well rested man? Or perhaps some real life experiences, its always more interesting than regurgitated googleisms. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fie.gif)

During a dark night of the sould it is important to find something, anything to stimulate you. It is my theory that these dark nights, while a normal part of our existance, are far too often allowed to carry on longer than necessary. The trick is to find the rose growing in the concrete. Good luck.

That is the tendancy, to stimulate yourself trough impulses. and you may well be succesfull in your effort.
You may conquer the dark night by stimulating yourself into something else.
But by doing that, you are leavin the dark night back into the evening, not into the dawn.
Your turning back and are leaving your spiritual progress behind if you overstimulate yourself and indulge yourself into the material worlds benefits and interests.

Silent meditation, how agonizing it may be, is the best rememedy. more precizely metta meditation.
But do not take on to much at once, set reasonable goals, becouse else you will likely go insane in the darkness.

Angalor, what you describe is something i went trough before i first picked up magick. I don't want to make less of your experience, since i know how painfull it can be.
But it sounds more like a depression than a dark night. wich is a horrible thing to go trough and can also be magickally rewarding in the end.

this is my highly personall opinion, which i believe to be true:

In the dark night you would have just kept on going, with no problem.
You would have kept your friends with no problem, they might even think you are at the top of your life, peaking mentally and physicly you seem outwardly. The dark night makes you go trough the motions of life, like a nihilistic machine. At least thats how it was for me.
Its not that there is fear for certain things, its just that everything seems so boring, so meaningless.
And there is no desire to do anything. However there is no desire not to do it either.
Doing or not doing feel exactly the same, boring and unrewarding, unhappy.
to a depressed person, this seems like a blessing, becouse you have no limitations in the dark night. An enourmous freedom is all around you.
Yet the pain of everything being boring and meaningless is constantly there also , making one feel extremely sad.

i would think about killing myself, to end the pain. But in the end, the killing seemed like a boring thing to do. And not feeling pain seemed like a boring thing too.
I would perform in school, in life, with friends, with great success. However, i took my diploma after the years of study, with the thought that it was a boring piece of paper. no satisfaction whatsoever, which was a little sad to think about.
I talked the talk, walked the walk, scoring high on my projects and intermship. yet all the time it gave me no joy. It was all boring but i just did it, going with the flow, totally bored.
i meditated, thinking, how boring is this. I went to bed quickly falling asleep due to my boredom.

Then i just said to my self a day. So what is it all boring, happyness stems from the inside. And i stopped caring about wheter it was boring or not. I stopped analysing how i felt about it. And just felt happy all the time. The happyness is much the same than the dark night, instead of feeling boring you feel happy. Its just a change of emotions. Take the above text and change boring with happy, and you have how i felt in my newfound freedom.

Thats how far i got, then it went away and i became more a "normal human" again. It seems i lost track of the magick for a while, and it set me back a little (IMG:style_emoticons/default/oops.gif)
Right now, i am seeking again that feeling post dark night. But i suspect i should stop seeking, becouse the feeling of non-caring of the dark night was the key to that happyness. Right now the only thing holding me back is the seeking itself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)