The rarity of experiencing utter blackness becomes apparent only once you are immersed in it. Mundanely speaking, it is the complete absence of any light, rendering your sense of sight impotent. Psychologically it is a debilitating and unnerving sensation made considerably worse when being led into the gloom as part of a chain of total strangers, hands placed on the shoulder in front, shuffling awkwardly towards a lightless oblivion, the last shadows fading swiftly until finally being enveloped into a totality of black.
The fear was, in reality, illusory. This was no torture chamber but the dining room of Dans...