Close your eyes in the darkroom

[cyrus]

Why or why do people (including me) have a habit of pressing their eyelids shut when in the darkroom, as if closing your eyes will make it darker? Is this some sort of biological phenomenon?

[Peter Mounier]

Have you asked others if they do that?
I open my eyes wide as if opening wider will help them adjust to the darkness, so I can see if there is any light coming in my darkroom, or emanating from a strip outlet or a glowing dc converter.

Peter

[bob carnie]

Never close my eyes in a darkroom.

[false_Aesthetic]

I totally do it when I process roll film but not when I do sheet.

I think it comes from practicing rolling film in a classroom with my eyes closed before I ever walked into the darkroom.

[Richard Wasserman]

I always close my eyes—helps me see in the dark.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I keep my eyes open. Another question would be, why do people close their eyes when they're smooching...

[Roger Cole]

I didn't know anyone did this. I don't. As far as I'm aware, I neither close them nor try to open them wider.

[Eric Woodbury]

People close their eyes in the darkroom so they don't see the light leaking under the door.

[Steve Smith]

I close my eyes when loading a film in a changing bag!


Steve.

[Scott Walker]

I close my eyes when I load film for some reason