There Are Three Certainties in Life: Death, Taxes...and the Dark Night Experience. Dark night experiences, or DNX, are those terrible, painful experiences that shock the core of our being and fill us with anguish, bewilderment, helplessness, and hopelessness. Whether it's an ugly divorce, the death of a loved one, suicide, betrayal, cancer, addiction, chronic pain, bankruptcy, being abandoned, fired, lonely, or in debt-it is like living through a tsunami. DNX can leave every aspect of your life marked with a giant X: "shattered, condemned, and marked for destruction." Dark Night Experience...