The black photo shown below is no error. It’s how it was really like.
Along with a friend, I went to the Dialog In The Dark (heb), a truly life changing experience. In a one hour tour, we were guided in a completely dark environment by a blind guide. The tour goes through 7 locations you are familiar with as a person, such as a public garden, your house and a bar. We were eight people moving around without seeing anything, only equipped with a walking stick. It’s amazing how you perceive stuff when your visual sensory system is off. Personally, I thought I’d go crazy in the first 10 minutes, and I almost did. It never grows on, and even after an hour of black, your brain still generates random white dots, trying to make up for what’s just not there.
I advise everybody to experience this. It has so many implications on your life, that you just can’t miss it.
As a theater major at Penn State, back in 1966, I had a Professor & director, the amazing Kelly Yeaton, who had us do three months of exercises, starting with the one you describe (including a full week in-the-blind) and ending with a weekend series of public performances, in the round. • As you say, transformational!
Thanks for the memory trigger!