"Dialogue in the Dark" to experience communication with an unusual world in the darkness of 100% purity

Human beings are called visual, auditory, tactile, tasteful, olfactoryfive sensesI feel things with, but in many cases somehow depend on the visual element "visual" for some reason to recognize things. How can a person feel things when he is deprived of his sight? In a certain meaning of being able to do a special experience is "Dialogue in the Dark". It is social entertainment that performs various experiences with support of Atend (group of 8 people) in group of 8 people in the darkness of 100% purity.

Dialogue in the Dark
http://www.dialoginthedark.com/

This is Dialogue in the Dark Tokyo Gaienpu venue.


There was a signboard in front of the building.


The venue is the 1st basement floor. Because it is Christmas season, it is decorated slightly like Christmas.


Opening the glass door ......


Inside is receptionist & waiting room, atmosphere like cafe. People before the event started sitting at the chair waiting, people who finished the event are writing questionnaires.


I received a brochure like this when I received the reception.


It is difficult to find a lost item in the dark, so put the baggage in the locker beforehand.


We sometimes purchase food during the event, put only small coins in the pocket and wait until the start time.


The waiting room does not become dark, but the event is done beyond the door behind the reception desk.


So it's time to start the event, and if you go through the door ... ...


It is not immediately the darkness, but it is passed through a room with a light light. Both sides of the room were partitioned by curtains, and in front of the curtain 'Visitor' s "attendant" who will support the experience of the darkness starting from now is on standby. From here, we will send it as an image image.


In this roomWhite caneHow to hold and notes on the event will be explained. The white cane picks the one with its own perimeter and holds it like a pen. During the event, because it is 100% pure darkness, crouch and walk or stretch out your hands and tell the members their actions in words before reaching out, reaching out from the back of the hand rather than from the palm of your hands. If you pull out your hand before reaching your fingers, your fingers will come out first, so it's likely that you will strike someone's eyes or push your hand into the mouth in your yawning.


After listening to the explanation, I will move to the other side of the curtain. Even though the room became dark, the level of each other can still be confirmed with eyes. As I was getting nervous before the darkness I had never experienced, I will introduce myself and introduce myself here to relax my tension. Events are basically done by eight people in a group, but this time participants were seven, and those entering into the darkness were eight with attendants.


After introducing ourselves, memorizing each other's name firmly the light of the room was dropped. Because there was a light of emergency light, this is not completely darkness yet, but mutual figure disappears at all. From here it is meaningless to match appearance with each other's name, and it is necessary to match the voice of the other party with the name.


Attende opens the door of the room, to the world of purity 100% darkness. Attending from the attendant 's instructions to attend the former person' s body and going like a train, if you accidentally standing at the head you will be heading in the dark while waiting in front of the white cane.


When I entered the room, I first felt "smell". When I smelled a sweet smell like a stinky smell and used the imagination as "What's that smell?" Someone said, "The smell of the leaves does".


Squatting with the voice "○ ○, squatting!", Feeling of dead leaves and cold moist soil that chewed while it was supposed to be indoors when touching the ground. Every time the participants step on the ground, a sound of rustling echoes and an image like the park is drawn in the head.


Touch as it is said to "touch it" on the further advanced side, the hand touches something hard. Although I do not usually conscious, I feel that some sense of touch remembers even with tactile sensation, and at the moment I touch it, it is recognized as "This is wood." While slowly moving your hands, you will find that it is something like a bench when you walk through the outline of hard "something". I tried sitting on a trial ......


It was not a chair but a swing. Once I knew something, my strange attitude changed and everyone took a blunk in the dark with a substitute banana instead.

BySnugg LePup

The event goes on and on in the room and progresses, but for example, if it is a bright place you can follow without saying anyone "even if you gather in a table" ... ...


In the darkness "Where is everyone else?" Paul, I have not found the table yet ... "" This is it! Konchi here "" Ah, I touched someone now, I am Paul. "Who is in the table now?" "Where are you at this table?" "There are two eh table's, where's this one?" "Oku no han!" " Well then, go and go to that table ... "" Who are you ??? "" In the back (lol) It's the table at the back! "" Trolley, Movement tomo! "" Megumi, Movement "Wow, I'm sorry, I stepped on my feet," Who? "" It's okay! Who? "" Gorori yo ... I'm sorry, "about 50 times that conversation is needed.


On the table, I made a Christmas card with scissors, seals, pens etc The image in the head is perfect because it can not be seen, but the card is expected to be tough. Also in the winter event occasionally light is generated by static electricity, but if it is in the dark it is a little light that causes static electricity to "brighten the smartphone in someone's pocket is shining"? felt.


If we do not have information from the visual sense, we unconsciously try to obtain information using hearing, olfaction, tactile sensation etc, but in the winter when the skin is not exposed, the face's face becomes an important sense organ. Every time we move through the room, we first feel the air such as warmth, coldness, and humidity on the face's face, information such as smells and sounds is also added, and we are trying to make a reasoning "What is your situation?" I will.


It is like this if you express the next room passed through with only visual information.


However, judging from room temperature, humidity, ambient sound, smell etc., it is an image like this.

ByJules Stoop

I bought drinks and sweets with the money I had. Enjoy a light meal at an invisible cafe.


And, although the event has ended by moving from the cafe, someone saying "I feel like a small room here" during the move. It was darkness which was a big deal at the beginning, but in the end it was getting used so that the size of the room could be known from how the voice sounded.


At the end, I'm accustoming my eyes to a room with a brightness room where the mini light bulb was stuck together, and to say my impressions. It is about the brightness as to whether people's face can be seen somehow, but somehow the conversation tends to be discouraged unlike before. Some people commented that "It is this kind of thing to ask people's face," and I realized that sometimes "visible" sometimes interfere with communication. However, because everyone is dragging the tension of the darkness somehow, even though it can be confirmed with the eyes, I turned around the paper material saying "Yes, thanks" "Thank you."


And again from the door different from the entrance to the world of light again.


I finished 90 minutes in the blink of an eye and I enjoy vision for a long time.


In the waiting room, towels and books etc were also sold ... ...


After the event, the skin is somehow sensitive, and even if you touch the towel, I feel it is a different texture than before.


When I finished writing the questionnaire it really got broken up, but it was impressive that when I turned the questionnaire in a bright room, no one spoke silently to the next person without saying anything. Until it is said that "If you see it" it is until then, but I talked like a friend like before, touched the other person and I felt the familiarity of the people who were intertwined became thinner.


In the darkness in the dark it is necessary to have a different way of communicating from the bright world, for example, when telling someone some information, first make yourself sensitive to your senses and touches objects and people by fumbling and working around imagination It is necessary to recognize the situation and think about it "how can you tell this to your opponent?" Because "we can see" can not be communicated, we need conversation all the time, unless we do not cooperate, we will not advance forward, so we will help with nature and will conduct closer communication than when we are "visible". Normally I am not aware, but due to someone's invisible I feel a little embarrassed, I tend to be refrained by asking my face, perhaps the environment where I can see things is not impairing the opportunity to contact a real opponent Is it? It was 90 minutes that I felt inconvenience of 'seeing'.

The cost of participating in the event is 5000 yen for adults, 3500 yen for students, and 2500 yen for elementary school students. Although it is a Christmas version until December 25, the new spring version event will be held from January 10, 2014.