Nate Hagens

If I were to do a darkness retreat, I think I would prefer a cave over a room.

I don't know why.

Maybe that's something, a primeval impulse in me.

I'm going to keep interrupting you just because I have questions that I imagine my viewers would, too.

So...

What about when people take a nap in the middle of the day, but there's some light coming through the shutters in their room and it's really not fully dark?

How does that little amount of light pollution, like what is the difference between being 95% dark and 100% dark and why is that important?

It's a big difference.

Well, there would be an opportunity if you did a darkness retreat with others and you could talk.

That would be a distraction.

Well, they're in silence and they're solitary.

It almost sounds like a miniature prison sentence.

It hurts to simplify.

So let's just start with this.

And I want you to say the full retreat, what you do.

But let's say people bought the MyHalo or whatever brand of those goggles.

So if they bought that and they turned the lights off in the room and they laid down and put those on...

At what point do you start feeling that withdrawal?

And is it your supposition that you would like people to do a two-hour initial experience and most people can't handle more than eight minutes?

Or what's been your experience?