Haven't had the 'smoking in the dark experience' (isn't that a Springsteen song?) but, like Andrew above, cold weather smokes can be weird. Don't know why the visual component is so important to the experience.
Smoking In The Dark?
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Smoking in the dark is one thing - there are few things finer than smoking outside on a nice night. Smoking blind, with your eyes closed or otherwise is a strange experience. I've tried it a few times, and honestly had a tough time telling if the pipe was lit, or if I was cold-drawing.
Although I don't care if I have to smoke in the dark or not, I prefer to "see" the smoke that is coming out of the pipe and out of my mouth. Just a preference.
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99% of the time I'm surrounded, by choice, by what my wife calls a multimedia circus. Last night before bed (after watching 3 episodes of House of Card)I just sat smoking a pipe and sipping a cocktail in the light of the fire just listening to the wind howl and the ice on the river crack. It was relaxing I should do it more. 8O
I like to smoke at twilight - just before it goes completely dark. It's soothing to sit and listen to the quiet, and see the embers in the pipe. My ideal relaxing time.
Its interesting. Psychiatrists working with the Soviet space program, developed a test to determine the level of Field-Dependance (FD) or Field-Independence (FI) in potential astronauts (cosmonauts). This was later developed upon by NASA to help them also select people for our own space program.
FD were people who needed to rely on what they see to determine where they were in the world.
FI were people who did not need visual references to determine their location. They're visual fields were completely separated from their perceptions of other things.
FI, in high degrees is only found in men. They made better navigators, because they could better know their location in the broad sense of a map without visual references. Weightlessness did not bother them. They were not fooled by "funhouse" styled visual misinformation. And, they tended to be better at creative problem solving. However, too high a degree of FI is also found in people with some forms of autism.
The tests for this were tasks done in complete darkness. It sounds a little like those who cannot enjoy smoking in darkness, may be more FD, and those who can just as easily enjoy their pipe in the dark might either make great astronauts, or they may be autistic, Hmmmmmm....
I see a dissertation in there for someone, lol.
FD were people who needed to rely on what they see to determine where they were in the world.
FI were people who did not need visual references to determine their location. They're visual fields were completely separated from their perceptions of other things.
FI, in high degrees is only found in men. They made better navigators, because they could better know their location in the broad sense of a map without visual references. Weightlessness did not bother them. They were not fooled by "funhouse" styled visual misinformation. And, they tended to be better at creative problem solving. However, too high a degree of FI is also found in people with some forms of autism.
The tests for this were tasks done in complete darkness. It sounds a little like those who cannot enjoy smoking in darkness, may be more FD, and those who can just as easily enjoy their pipe in the dark might either make great astronauts, or they may be autistic, Hmmmmmm....
I see a dissertation in there for someone, lol.
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