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Dear Friends, I am at my oldest daughter's in Anderson, South Carolina. she graduated college on the 18th and we are staying for Christmas. She and her family moved into a new house a couple of months ago. The house is out in the country and so is very dark at night. The first night we were there I got up to go to the bathroom and couldn't see a thing. I wasn't too worried because I knew where the doors, etc. wer in relationship to the bed. But when I tried to walk I couldn't move my feet forward except for less than half an inch! I wondered what was wrong and then remembered the visual clue phenomena whereby PWP can walk better if they have lines perpendicular to their direction of travel. (This phenomena was portrayed in the movie "Awakenings".) I didn't think that the lines help me too much but never considered what might happen with a total lack of visual clues. As I found out, without any clues at all I was going nowhere fast. (It took me about 15 minutes to travel the 30 feet to the bathroom.) The next night there was a night light in the bathroom and I had no problems getting there at my normal meds-off shuffle. Has anyone else had an experience like this? Bruce 56/9 Sinemet CR and Mirapex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bruce G. Warr "Experience is what enables us to recognize Healthcare Informatics Lab a mistake the next time we make it." Information Systems Dept. University of Maryland Baltimore County http://umbc.edu/~warr/ (V) (410)455-3206 (F) (410)455-1073 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~