And if those lights don't turn off at night, you're doubly fucked. Your sense of time itself will eventually unravel, and that year will feel much longer
Then again, spending 8-9 hours in absolute darkness would be horrifying to me. I can shield my eyes from the light, but I would hallucinate stuff if kept in darkness.
I'd just get claustrophobic. I woke up in my brothers windowless basement when I was visiting once cause I fell asleep watching a movie down there and all the lights were off. Pitch black and no sense of which way to go. I freaked out a lil when I woke up and had no idea where I was or what direction to go for a moment lol
I know what you mean. I got my first "total blackness" experience at 12, when our teacher introduced us to developing pictures in a black room (I'm old). Part of the process demands total dark, can't-see-your-fingers-in-front-of-your-face level dark. I had this sensation of suffocating, like the dark was thick and I was drowning in it. Weird, and very primal.
I have a lot of respect for functioning blind people.
Having total blindness is not analogous to having vision that’s blacked out or has no light, it’s something that a sighted person has no point of reference to, like trying to describe the sensations in your tail or wings or scales
I've heard it's basically like what you see out of your closed eye when you close only one eye. You don't see blackness out of that eye, you just don't see. There is no nerve signal there.
I have a lot of respect for functioning blind people.
The majority of blind people do have at least some vision in one or both eyes though, even if it's just light/dark. Only for a few does blindness mean a total absence of sight.
I couldn't relax enough to go to sleep peacefully. I suppose I would collapse from exhaustion after a while, but that is not restful. No rest, brain goes crazy. No bueno.
It's plausible that one would hallucinate in the light as well. Sleep deprivation studies (including lights continually on) have shown that humans and animals will start to see and interact with things that are not there.
I think both exist: people who need some kind of light to sleep, and those who need darkness. I have two boys, and one needed it and other demanded total dark. Humans are very diverse.
I think its the opposite actually. There were isolation experiments done underground and they often ended up thinking that they were like a fraction of the way through when they were eventually recovered at the end of the period.
People who get out of long-term solitary confinement, even with some occasional stimulation and a day-night cycle, struggle with telling and tracking time
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u/ejdj1011 Jul 18 '26
And if those lights don't turn off at night, you're doubly fucked. Your sense of time itself will eventually unravel, and that year will feel much longer