#01; 24 hours of darkness.

Project #01: a day without sight.

J says it's pretty much a success. I guess I could say the same.. at least there's the experience. but I didn't manage to stay in the 'darkness' for a full 24 hours.

I went 'blind', at the first stroke of midnight, yesterday. It may sound really odd / crazy, childish even, but I've always wanted to experience being blind. I wanted to know first-hand, as best as I could allow it, how it is like.. not having the sense of sight. The fears and limitations of a blind who knows the colors and the light of day. I pretty much caved the moment Jer went off.

I woke up at 7am and snoozed for quite a while. Reason? I wasn't able to off my alarm till quite late.. & the only reason I knew the time was cause of my daily alarm that rings at 7am. Getting around my room, my home, wasn't difficult. Afterall, I have seen every corner before, so the mental map/image in my head is all constructed. Only difference is the size/distance of the map compared to the actual location. Even in my room, the distance felt a lot smaller as compared to the map I had in my head.

No more words, the pictures shall speak for itself.

breakfast put together by J

all other senses increase in sensitivity

what I missed; there was a guy in a unicycle at the end of this group of cyclist

J had me raise my hands to touch the hanging roots. touching the unknown was scary but there was less fear. It's like eating  awesome noodles, only to find out later that they are actually worms or made of something gross in your opinion. But before you find out the disgusting details, you'd still eat with much gusto.
a photo of the fountain like place J was describing to me.. & in all honesty, what I had in mind was totally different.. it somehow felt like I was in an enclosed area, like a box.
& that's the little boy I heard asking his dad questions.

while I was lying around, waiting for J to come back from his exploring.. my ears heard this little boy shouting for his sister.. I realized how I depended on my sense of sight to gauge distance. How small the world feels like in the darkness, as thought everything was just a hop, skip & jump away. & no matter how much I walk, the world in my mind was like a little black box.

perception

the super excited doggie walking in the opposite direction

squirrel, lizard(?) & a monkey thing.. not very sure what it is..

the waterfall J told me about..  He said there was a path that brings you through the waterfall, so half the time, I was expecting water to rain down on me.. o(>_<)o
2 shots of J by a 'blind'.. there's a 3rd shot, but I totally missed the subject. HAHA!

a king fisher we walked under.. squirrel & robber fly.. & a water hen we were stalking..
initially, when Jer told me that there's a water hen nearby, I thought it was in a pond of some sort.. & that we were stalking it by going around the pond.. was a surprise when I saw the photo..

Project #01 - SUCCESS