Interpretations:Garbage In
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Depression and Withdrawal[edit]
I think it's safe to assume "garbage in" is referring to the entire phrase, "garbage in, garbage out." What I'm taking from that is that the narrator's shutting themselves inside, trying to avoid the kinds of distressing or depressing thoughts that can often come to you late at night when the lights are off.
From the perspective of the narrator, drawing the curtains tight keeps you out of view while you stick to the candlelight, certainly better than abject darkness. From the perspective of the friends, drawing the curtains tight is just keeping yourself in that darkness in the first place. They cry "garbage in", referring to the hopeless cycle of getting stuck in your head about this stuff.
Old Bob's zombie-esque solutions of "remove the head or destroy the brain", I think, is to suggest you can either remove those thought patterns leading you on this path, or let it consume you, destroying the brain.