Dining In the Dark
I find this experience a constant feeling of a surprise since it is the first time for me to eat in the darkness. The experience is intriguing and unusual to my sensory organs. I requested to be served with food, which I realized later that it was with cubes of meat without bones with mashed potatoes.
I found it difficult to distinguish the flavors of the food that was placed in my table in the absence of my visual clue, but after some time, I smelled better. This closing of eyes heightened my smelling sense because I had already lost the visual flavor. By removing the visible part, I had to concentrate more on the flavors and the aroma of the food. From hand to mouth, also, the experience was robust, as I did not see the direction of my diet and the distance between mouth and food, and I underestimated the amount of food I had eaten( Dijksterhuis, 2014).
I ranked my ability to smell the aroma of the food with five, and my ability to taste be at two. I rated the ability to feel the texture of the food at three and the visual at one since I could not see at al. I was able to identify the cubes of meat by the touch of it and by the smell. It was difficult for me through tasting to know which type of food I was dealing with.
When dining in the light, I always identify the well-cooked food by color and texture behavior while eating in the dark, and I lost the ability to identify both.
Dining in the dark can be a memorable multisensory experience. Visual clues play an essential role in the perception of flavor. I would not try this kind of experience again since it affected my identification ability and my enjoyment for the food,