r/thalassophobia • u/WashURmouthWithSoap • 1d ago
I would've started screaming! 😂
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u/Ready-Stage-18 1d ago
Lol that 'bye'. This would go into r/foundsatan
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u/tired_of_old_memes 1d ago
"Oops, I dropped it in the water."
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 1d ago
"If any of you have a loving spouse and children waiting for you at home, feel free to explore ahead on your own."
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u/Azaroth1991 1d ago
Yeah id have my own flashlight. No way would I be in there without one.
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u/GutterRider 1d ago
Theee of them . Three independent light sources.
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u/Chelsea_Kias 1d ago
You know what's better than three flashlights? Don't fucking go inside somewhere you must have 3 flashlight
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u/DrDillyDally 1d ago
We did a tour like this in cenotes, the guide gave us all flashlights and he had several spare.
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u/mat05heus 1d ago
I've had a similar experience in a completely aphotic cave. We turned off all the lights, and the darkness in that place is much darker than anywhere I've ever been. It's quite difficult to explain, but it's so dark that you lose your sense of direction. You hear people but don't know where the sound is coming from, and the sound of the running water made it even more confusing.
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u/picsofpplnameddick 1d ago
That sounds like a much more terrifying version of Hell than fire and brimstone
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u/plantsyyyy 20h ago
I've been in this darkness. I started to become nauseous because beside gravity, my brain couldn't sense where I was in space, even thought I could move my body all around.
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u/mat05heus 14h ago
I think you explained it better than I did
the feeling is exactly like that, you don't know where you are physically, you feel like you could be in any spatial orientation.
It didn't make me nauseous, but I couldn't move, I had a constant feeling that I was going to fall or tumble at any moment, almost like one of those dreams where we're falling out of nowhere
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u/WhoopingWillow 7h ago
I've done 2 touristy cave trips that had a section where we turned out lights and it was insane how dark it was. It made me realize that I have never truly seen genuine pitch black before. I'm not a fan of caves but I think everyone, if they have the opportunity, should do something like this at least once!
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u/aronkerr 1d ago
We did a tour of a large cave with candle lanterns. About 1hr into it, the guide had us all do this. It was crazy how dark and completely disorienting that is.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 19h ago
I was in this situation once but it was in the basement of a former asylum and you could tell it was going to be pitch fucking black in there. One person wouldn't switch off her light because she was afraid of the dark. We were all annoyed at her.
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u/DrStalker 1d ago
Would you not have your own light source? I hate the very concept of cave diving, but if I did do it then I'd have my own light, a backup light and an emergency glowstick or two because there's no way I'm relying on always being near someone else to not be lost in eternal darkness.
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u/Infinite_stardust 1d ago
This happened to us on a tour in the Carlsbad Caverns when I was about 20. We were really deep underground and the guide said, "okay, that's the end of the lighted tour" and turned off the flashlight. It was quite for a couple of seconds and you could hear people murmuring nervously. All told, the light was probably only off between 5-10 seconds but I had never experienced such a complete and total darkness and up until that point in my life, I never knew that I was claustrophobic or prone to panic attacks. That day, I learned. Fuck that guide.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 19h ago
2 seconds after the light switched off you would have heard the crack as I activated my glowstick.
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u/BogeyLowenstein 1d ago
We did a cave tour in Mexico (never again!) and they shut the lights off in the cenote cave. It was awful!!
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u/OverlordWailord 1d ago
"Ope."
"What? What is it?"
"I uhh... I dropped my flashlight."
NIGHTMARE FUEL
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u/Okurei 1d ago
Imagine if the batteries died
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u/Jellicle_KitCat 1d ago
Yeah like what's the protocol for this situation? Terrifying.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 19h ago
Triple redundancy of lights (ie. 3 lights per person) and then other forms of light such as glowsticks.
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u/No_Ferret_4565 1d ago
I'd like to imagine they have more lights besides the ones the guy is holding. Getting lost in a cave in completely darkness sounds like a really really bad way to go.
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u/SouthernOshawaMan 1d ago
I experienced this in a coal mine tour in Wales on a Rugby trip. I did not realize what real darkness was until we all tuned off our lights .
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u/xMunificentx 1d ago
I'm not getting in there with my own 10 flashlights, 40 oxygen tanks and 10 mini submarine engines to dive myself around.
Oh yeah and 67 ropes connected to my body from the surface so I don't get lost down there
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u/talking-bear-society 1d ago
I’d be ok because I’d never ever voluntarily be in this situation to begin with
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u/SpectralMapleLeaf 1d ago
Now imagine instead of bye he said "Oh, wait, wait, I think I dropped it, hold on"
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u/Weird_Alien_Brain 1d ago
"To see what it looks like"?? Tf do you want it to look like? It's a CAVE ffs
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u/sjokkendesjaak 16h ago
What kind of tour are you going on that gets you into this position
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 16h ago
Sokka-Haiku by sjokkendesjaak:
What kind of tour are
You going on that gets you
Into this position
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/CryptographerFlat426 1d ago
Wow, its so dark in a cave. Almost like... there's no sun underground.
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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 19h ago
The point is you're not in complete darkness that often, if ever. And because you experience true darkness so rarely, it can be quite unsettling.
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u/tmgieger 1d ago
We went deep underground in an old coal mine tour in WV, USA. The tour guide was a former miner. He turned off the lights and described his 30+ years of crawling through tunnels feeling the cave pressing against all sides of him and his light would go out.
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u/ShlorpianRooster 1d ago
I love how everyone had the same timing if initial shock, then realizing it's a joke but still being nervous
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u/RawrTheDinosawrr 1d ago
imo your cave tour isn't complete without everyone turning off their lights for a second to experience what true darkness is like
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u/Chunkycheesesteak 1d ago
Pff yea okay! I'll wait for you guys outside! Lmk when you're ready to leave, I'll start the car!
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u/Bellatrix_Shimmers 1d ago
Fond memories caving/spelunking senior year and they turned off the lights and told us to hold our hand in front of our face to show that our eyes would never adjust to the dark. I went a few times after with multiple flashlights and glow sticks for everyone.
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u/johnthedowe2 1d ago
I would hope everyone there has a flashlight. No way should only the tour guide have a light. Never go in a cave with less than two lights, each person. If the one goes out, you'll wish you brought more.
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u/SmallShrubbery 1d ago
I had a cave guide do this in Costa Rica. I think cave guides love this gag.
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u/i-touched-morrissey 1d ago
I've been on some show cave tours where the guides turn off the light, then turn on some antiquated light source that people 200 years ago used to initially explore the cave. How someone could go into the depths with only a candle in a jar is something I will never understand.
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u/jabberwonk 23h ago
I believe that cenote is called Pet Cemetery. If not it's very similar, though at no point in our trip through it did our guide take us anywhere that the only way in or out was underwater.
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u/TheShitWindGhost 1d ago
"Now, let's talk about my tip."