Being directed by the blind in a lost world .....
By sunnycool
@sunnycool (12714)
India
March 24, 2012 12:22pm CST
I've been to this amazing place where we can dine in an unique way and i'm sure you'll have an unforgettable experience too ... that's how one of my senior managers highly spoke about
"Dialogue in the Dark"!
At the most,we pity those who can't see ... you ever imagined yourselves in their
shoes ???
What if you were asked to spend a couple of hours blindfolded? What if you were asked to follow others directions in the dark? What if you were asked to use all your senses to analyze the happenings around other than your eyes with which you
see ?
"Dialogue in the Dark" --- makes you feel as how hard its to be blind for a couple of hours!It makes it clear to you that blind people can help you out in their own world,very much like the way we offer our help to them in our colorful world.
You'll be served delicious food in a dark room with no light ... you can't even see if someone's moving or standing by your side unless they make some noise!You wouldn't even have a damn clue as where in that dark room your food is and what you're about to have!
You'll get to hear a voice each time you ask for a certain dish ... follow those directions and you have your food.There are more than a dozen blind people in the same dark room where you dine and its them who serve the visitors!
That's how you dine in there! Yet to dine in there and i'm all set for it...so exciting its gonna be to rely on your senses other than your eyes!
Would you be willing to dine in such a place or you would be scared to death to step in a dark room where every other object you get to feel is BLACK!
I've never heard of this place until yesterday.There are quiet a handful of DID branches in the world ... there's Only one branch in india and i'm gonna visit it soon!
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11 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
24 Mar 12
Hi sunny! 
I found a link which will further your topic:
http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/
I think that knowing that I would only be blind for a short time and that later everything would be as before, would not really give a true view on how it is to be totally blind always.
If I was to become blind I would have my loved ones whom I could trust to look after me and serve me proper food. Inside that place that you mention I would have to put my trust in strangers and hope that they were not seving me with something that I would rather not taste 
I am not really sure that I would like to experiment 
I found a link which will further your topic:
http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/
I think that knowing that I would only be blind for a short time and that later everything would be as before, would not really give a true view on how it is to be totally blind always.
If I was to become blind I would have my loved ones whom I could trust to look after me and serve me proper food. Inside that place that you mention I would have to put my trust in strangers and hope that they were not seving me with something that I would rather not taste I am not really sure that I would like to experiment @sunnycool (12714)
• India
25 Mar 12
Hi diana ... you managed to get the right link 
At least you get to know as how dependent we're on our eyes .... we take everything for granted based on our vision don't we?
What i heard of is those blind people are well-trained so there's way you get to chew something unwanted 
At least you get to know as how dependent we're on our eyes .... we take everything for granted based on our vision don't we?
What i heard of is those blind people are well-trained so there's way you get to chew something unwanted 2 people like this
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
25 Mar 12
What are you implying with "you managed to get the right link"? 
I am perfectly capabale of using the search 
I would hope that they would be well-trained but I will not test them out.
I am perfectly capabale of using the search
I would hope that they would be well-trained but I will not test them out.@sunnycool (12714)
• India
25 Mar 12
I did try to search for the global DID link in a rather impatient way 
Most of the G-searches returned links to that of Indian DID branch for me 
LOL i see that your emoticon is trying to be blind
Most of the G-searches returned links to that of Indian DID branch for me
LOL i see that your emoticon is trying to be blind 2 people like this
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
25 Mar 12
I have heard about those places before, but I have never visited one of them. I think that it will be a very different experience and I am willing to try it. The food experience is more intense when you can't see what you are eating. I experienced that when I was a nursing student. One day we had an exercise where we worked in pairs. One of us (the nurse) had to feed the other one (the patient) and the patient was blindfolded. It was a bit of a strange feeling that you didn't know what kind of food the other person put into your mouth, but I learned something from the experience. I imagine that I would feel the same way if I visit Dialog in the dark.
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@vandana7 (98995)
• India
24 Mar 12
Sunny comes up with crying topic...
One of the reasons I am in love with biotechnology is ..it gives hope..
They have managed to build an eye..yeah..an eye from just a stem cell.. so kiddo, it is only a matter of time when even enucleated folks could get their eyes back, hang in there..
And as to ..blind people..those who are blind from birth arent as unhappy as those who become blind at later date. This is because what you dont know you cant really miss. Right?
And as I said..there is hope at the end of the tunnel. My hugs to all those who are battling blindness as of now.
One of the reasons I am in love with biotechnology is ..it gives hope..
They have managed to build an eye..yeah..an eye from just a stem cell.. so kiddo, it is only a matter of time when even enucleated folks could get their eyes back, hang in there..
And as to ..blind people..those who are blind from birth arent as unhappy as those who become blind at later date. This is because what you dont know you cant really miss. Right?
And as I said..there is hope at the end of the tunnel. My hugs to all those who are battling blindness as of now. 1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98995)
• India
26 Mar 12
I agree that it would be expensive initially. But it would only be a matter of a couple - yes couple of years before technology becomes affordable. Look at it like this. There are several eye clinics across the world. Right? If I am one of them and am able to offer the technology to my patients, then my competitors would have to close their shop. So initially, everybody would clamour for it - giving the researchers their monies. Governments and NGO's will step in - with subsidies and donations. Indian NGOs may not be too happy to let go of their regular source of income, but it wouldnt do any good to appear as laggard, right? All attempts would be made to ensure that technology is accessible at least to a section of society initially, and as time passes to others. There was a time cataract operation couldnt be completed in a day. I know of an old lady who was in the hospital for more than a week! Now we can get it done in within a lakh provided the person to be operated is not a stubborn person like my pa. That too, with 25 percent reimbursement from National Health Insurance.
And yesterday there was an article about a heart being made from stem cells. A few months ago there was something about knees and ankles. So your mom and me have a bright future ahead kiddo. Dont think you are getting away from our nagging so soon. Ok? 
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@sunnycool (12714)
• India
25 Mar 12
I really hope the research stuff you just mentioned becomes successful.But the main question is "Is that gonna be affordable" ???
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@Archaiwy (599)
• China
25 Mar 12
It's interesting and educating to have the experience.First, one can experience a total dark in a silent place.Second, he can know something about the blind people by acting in the dark.Everyone has his own ability to live a life.So People should help each other and not look down upon others.
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@IrishGal77 (260)
• Ireland
24 Mar 12
Hi sunnycool,
Wow, I've never heard of such a place but yeah, I think I'd give it a shot, at least the once anyway. I think I'd be most scared about not being able to see the food on the plate in front of me so I'd have to ask for something that I know is 'safe' to eat, like Spaghetti Bolognese.....only one way to make that, right?!
I was doing a survey recently and one of the questions asked were which of the senses would I be most afraid to lose. I answered 'sight'. It's true. It's amazing how much we take for granted and don't realise till we're in a situation that highlights it.
I don't suppose they allow night vision goggles in this restaurant of yours?....
IrishGal77 :)
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@sunnycool (12714)
• India
25 Mar 12
Hi Irishgal,
It does take a while to sort as where your plate is and i bet most will be skeptical if the requested dish would be served in your plates or something else.We'll resort onto our other senses in the absence of one ... quiet stunning as how those blind attendants address you with your name(based on your voice) each time you request for a dish!
You're allowed to carry your wallet but nothing else! A strict NOPE to florescent related stuff which glows in the dark like shoes and watches in general.Thanks for your response!
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@sunnycool (12714)
• India
31 Mar 12
It just leaves us with an experience to dine in a dark room where you can hardly see anything.Even i'd prefer my room to be dark whilst sleeping.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Mar 12
hi sunnycool oh that is fascinating .I remember an experiment in my
psycology 100 class where one was blindfolded and led by the hand
out of our classroom and across campus.after ten minutes of being blindfolded I was about to fall apart so whem my guide a much
younger male student seemed to want to make me break my neck as
i tripped over a shallow irrigation channel in the grass , I yanked
off my blind fold.he was laughing at me and I turned and walked back into my classroom where I told the professor that Jack had deliberately let me trip into a irrigation channel because he thought it was funny.I got an A for my part and he flunked it.That gave me the horror of having to depend on other people who are sighted if you really were blind. I c an imagine a Dialogue In the Dark would be really eye opeing to a sighted person. I am not sure if I am game enough to try that as I have a horror of not being able to see as it is.I know that one would learn an awful lot about how to cope with blindness should you let
yourself try this plave.
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
26 Mar 12
Yes, i know about that place. It's available in Taiwan as well and there's only one branch in Taiwan too. It's unique able to dine in such places and without visual effects, we tend to appreciate food better with our sense of taste. However, it's only diners who can't see anything. Waiters, waitresses, have to wear night vision goggles for them to move around, guiding customers to their seats. It's cool to be a staff in such restaurants.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
24 Mar 12
There is a restaurant like that in Amsterdam too called c-taste, friend is working over there (he will be blind soon). I don't believe in your statement btw that you know how it feels to be blind if you are blindfolded for a couple of hours.
This is completely different as being blind for real or getting blind (and knowing it will happen to you soon although you don't know when exactly).
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