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Trying Blindness with food?

by Sam Witteveen on April 8, 2009 · 0 comments

Blind Person
Creative Commons License photo credit: Eddie~S

I was recently in Zurich Switzerland and had the good fortune to be taken to The Blindekuh (Blind Cow) Restaurant.

The Blindekuh is a restaurant where everything inside the dinning room is totally pitch black. There is no light in there what so ever. Basically by walking into the dinning room you loose your sense of sight. You become blind. Totally.

At first myself and others at my table had the illusion that we could still see our own hands moving in front of our faces, even though we couldn’t see anything else. I put this to the test by getting a friend’s hand in front of my face (an inch away), only to find that I couldn’t see it at all. It had been a trick that my mind was playing on me by making me think I could see my hands.

The experience for me was amazing. After the few initial minutes of feeling wary and concern about where my hands were and if I was going to knock over my glass etc wore off, I began to relax in to the realization that I no longer had my sight to rely on.

Listening to people’s voices took on a whole new level of awareness. The tables are shared and seat 6-8 people, so our small group of three joined a table by another group of 3 Americans. During the whole lunch I never got to see these people at all, I only had the sense of sound and topics of our conversation from which to evaluate them.

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The Obsession of Passion – What you gives you OCD will often give you your success

by Sam Witteveen on January 14, 2009 · 1 comment

Day 43 /365 someone I start drinking for no reason

The Obsession of Passion – What you gives you OCD, will often give you your success.

People often ask me at my seminars, about how they find can find their true passion and often my answer is something along the lines ‘you will know it when you find it, so keep trying new things till you find it’.

While this may often seem a short and succinct reply to a truly in depth question, the simple fact is that most people don’t try many new activities once they become an adult.

Adam Savage is known to many of you as one of the presenters from the Myth-Busters show on the discovery channel. I am a fan of the show and the fundamental ways they test assumptions to see what actually is myth and what is plausible.

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