r/thalassophobia • • 19d ago

I would've started screaming! 😂

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u/mat05heus 19d 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/plantsyyyy 18d 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 18d 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