I do this if I take one before bed. Relaxes me and also helps my eyes acclimate to the darkness
When I tried that, I felt weird, like, my eyes are open but it doesn’t help.
After a while, it feels like the abyss looks you in the eyes
To me it would be weirdly slippy and fally and weird.
But imagine the surprise of whoever finds you! Really makes it worth it.
Not so much now because I get sleepy. But I used to love it. Probably will again some day.
It’s my favorite way to shower. I don’t know if it’s my ADHD or what, but it’s super relaxing, one of the few times I can actually feel that sensation.
What do you mean “anyone else”? I was in the shower with you. I feel so ignored!
Can you guys keep it down? I’m trying to sleep on the loo
Geezus Richard, I told you to use the down stairs bog when we were showering! FFS
Richard is such a dick.
Richard is a really big dick!
No, because the monsters would get me.
Monsters don’t eat wet human
All humans are wet on the inside
but the ones wet on the outside are icky ok.
im a picky eater dont judge.
Same. As a horror movie junkie, there are an abundance of shower scenarios that would pop into my head whilst in the dark.
Showering in the dead of night? Yes, that’s relaxing. Showering in the dead of night with all the bathroom lights off? Few things would unsettle me more.
I split the difference. Shower with a candle in the room. Transparent shower curtain.
This is how all horror scenes start with white people and their candles in the bathroom.
i’m autistic and have quite the sensibilities, including to light. taking a shower is something that has always been extremely calming to me, it shuts a lot of my brain down, including, sometimes, my anxiety disorder part. taking a shower in the dark is the closest thing to a state of pure inner bliss i can reach easily.
Also autistic, I very much enjoy baths in darkness or very low light.
Poor man’s isolation tank.
exactly! :D
I have ADHD and it’s similar for me. What also helps is background rain noise. Did you try that? Im using cozy time on my PC as it also can play additional relaxing music and has a pomodoro timer.
it’s not enough for me. i have heavy rain currently and while it does calm me down, it’s only one sense that is being stimulated. it’s really the water running all over me that does the trick and the light of lights makes it that much easier to just disappear in my mind.
I wish autism made me sensible :p
yes, I’m blind without my glasses anyway
Yeah, I do that. I also soak in the tub with ears submerged for audio blunting as well. Very sensory-deprivation. Quite relaxing.
Only if I bring my life size bathclown with me with the chefs knife attachment and realistic glowing eyes.
Everyday day after work. I have a “nightlight” that I turn on. Other that that all my showers are in darkness. I think it’s a way for me to decompress after being bombarded by artificial light for 10+ throughout my work day. Took me until I was 35 to realize how sensitive i was to light, especially artificial
Only when it’s voluntary. I once had the power go out while I was in the shower. My thirty-something ass instantly aged into an octogenarian convinced he was breaking a hip on the way to open the bathroom door.
