Three nights ago, I awoke… peeked at my light up watch. It was 3:00 am and I was in my loft at THO. It was dark. I opened my eyes, but they did not adjust to the light. I looked out the window but there was no light, I could see nothing at all.
It dawned on me that I have not, even in the forest of the tiny house been in complete and total darkness since I took a photography class many years ago. I lay there, petting my dog who I could tell was Minnie by the way her fur feels in my hand. She is the neediest of my dogs because of her being a runt perhaps and she is always cuddled right in to my tummy while I sleep.
I am not normally insomnia ridden but I lay there awake for about two hours until the daylight broke the darkness. It was not restlessness or frustration that kept me awake. I was looking at nothing because my eyes never adjusted. I simply enjoyed the rare experience of living without light.
Have you ever been outside, or in a room with many curtain free windows and experienced absolute total darkness?
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When it’s totally dark, it usually means that our power is out. Since I am on oxygen, I have to just reach over and grab another hose in the dark…..and hopefully won’t wake up so much that I can’t go back to sleep. (I am an insomniac)
I used to live in an apartment that had no windows in the bedroom area. When I had guests I would close the door and enjoy being in total darkness. All my other senses wake when vision is absent.
Yes, this is exactly my experience… only, you worded this better than I.
xo
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how wonderful. i experienced total darkness when caving. we all switched off our headtorches for the joy of it when deep underground!