[NO Spoilers] How to dare...?

[Alterforest]

This might be a stupid question but I ask anyway: Do you have any tips how to dare playing this game?

I have played the penumbra series but i didn't manage to finish BP without having music on and play in daylight and being prepared with spoilers on monster locations . I have some kind of attraction of the stories in horror games and want to learn all about it in this game too.

But now I want to experience amnesia the way it's intended (playing with headphones on and in a dark room and last but not least, without spoilers) because it will be the first horror game without weapons for me to fully explore.
I have managed to play about 30min and now I'm too scared to continue...
Please tell me if there's something I can do, or if I'm screwed... either way, my money aren't thrown in the lake if that's the case, I'm very glad to support the developers.
Any advice would be appreciated.