How to write in the dark.

[@iiiunixo]

Light a candle: NOPE! Create a whole ass cipher: YES!

[@fadeharumaiza6662]

Lolll😂😂

[@MsSHINeeTVXQSuju]

😂😂😂😂

[@sirashley2355]

and memorize

[@VictorYamaykin]

1K LFG!!

[@genericjoe4082]

Candles used to be expensive. They didn't have proper mass production for every product yet.

[@shanemalone-murphy6916]

RIP Lewis Carol you would have loved voice notes

[@veritorossi]

A phone with a notepad app too.

[@민민min]

Or electricity.

[@anonaccount0]

@@민민min😂😂😂

[@django4013]

huh?​@@Wonderlandish

[@RnRnR]

@@django4013 He took naked photographs of little girls and teens

[@family4325]

Light a candle: 👎 Invent a whole new alphabet and device just to write down ideas in the dark: 👍

[@marikothecheetah9342]

It makes sense, I can't count times when I rushed to write something at night and by the time I even lit the lamp half of it was gone. :/

[@family4325]

@@marikothecheetah9342 He could keep the lamp and lighter by his bed? I just feel like there are better ways to solve the problem than having to create and memorize a new alphabet that will never be as efficient as writing in English

[@giraffestreet]

How is he finding his little device, a pen, and a piece of paper in the dark tho?

[@jplveiga]

​@@giraffestreetmemory and tact?????

[@superpowers2521]

desperation inspires creativity

[@silasreade]

As a fellow writer, I love the fact waking up in the middle of the night with a great scene is universal!

[@Su-krosLily]

Yeah! Some of my best book ideas I got after having nightmares🤔😄🌟

[@srishtisoutsideadventure9s564]

Lol 😂😂​@@Su-krosLily

[@__idfk__]

Those are usually some of my best ideas. I always try to write them down as soon as possible. I've lost too many great scenes by thinking it would all just come back to me when I sit down to write.

[@Su-krosLily]

@@__idfk__ that's so true! Sometimes I can remember other times nope😂

[@milesparker557]

I see Lewis Carol has the mind of a programmer. Why spend a minute or two getting and lighting a candle, when you can spend weeks to months developing a new writing system you can write in the dark? Edit: Some people don't seem to get that this is a joke. I'm a programmer, this is also how I approach problems. Sometimes the end product is worthwhile and greatly saves time and effort, sometimes it isn't. But you still do it because it's fun to make stuff.

[@GS-td3yc]

She is not only thinking about herself. She is thinking for the world.

[@wrenithilduincats]

​@@GS-td3yc Carrol was a guy who had a problem and came up with a solution. She's a fact sharing youtuber

[@kitmoore9969]

He had the mind of a genius. Why get out of bed in the middle of a cold winter night when you can reach under your pillow?

[@alphakevin687]

He was an interesting character for sure. A modern Carrol for sure would have had a waifu pillow.

[@lordmikethegreat]

Well, he clearly invented PalmOS graffiti! Oh, dear... I am showing my age..

[@BLAZE-rm3zw]

So basically, i have to learn a morse code type stuff to write down a idea at night?

[@flakey-finn]

Or turn on an electric lamp...

[@ravinarnimje]

it was lot more logical when there was no electricity, now we can just type it out on mobile.

[@screwjack4187]

Its just lining the sides

[@benchan2639]

IKR, and moving the card around the sheet of paper in the dark to write multiple lines seems tricky. I would think he'd be much more efficient just lighting a candle he kept at his bedside and then writing normally.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

No, because most people's handwriting isn't that bad. You just need slots in which to write each line of text.

[@safiya2412]

Gotta trick my Hebrew- learning friends with this one.

[@Medina-bk2fo]

LOL

[@Kormeister]

It's uncanny hahaha

[@m4r5w0n6]

diabolical 😂

[@marksasahara1115]

LOL! It totally looks like Hebrew!

[@beck01]

Literally what I was thinking, especially when she pulled the Alice in Wonderland script, I was convinced it was the same 😂

[@crystalgaming12]

Blud took “Work harder not smarter” to a whole knew level

[@triangleboi1240]

wrong way around!!

[@ICPadict36]

bud*

[@sreejithsubhash7301]

New*

[@SupremeDP]

​@@triangleboi1240 No, no. That's exactly correct.

[@wow-roblox8370]

@@SupremeDPno, it isnt

[@LiberatedNotes]

Same energy when an engineer spends hours to automate a task that would have take minutes if done manually Edit: Looks like I started a war

[@JudgeMingus]

But once you automate the task (or develop your alphabet) you don't have to waste the time (or get cold getting up) repeatedly in future.

[@తాతగారిఇంట్లోచదివినకథలు]

It is more like investment of energy

[@honor9458]

the manual minutes add up over time.

[@brandongregori995]

The whole point of automating it is so you don't have to do the same task over and over

[@annad5130]

@@JudgeMingusnot true. Those machines have to be constantly maintained and improved upon. They also suck up energy resources and occasionally take someone’s arm. It’s just laziness.

[@fatherofthewestern6607]

This really easier than lighting a candle lol

[@eduardoxenofonte4004]

in the long term, i'd say so

[@AJJesko]

For short notes maybe. But as soon as you go above a few sentences, may as well light a candle.

[@danthemango]

I suspect it was to allow him to rest his eyes too

[@kitmoore9969]

"This really *is* easier than lighting a candle -lol-" Fixed that for you. In Dodgson's own words: "Any one who has tried, as I have often done, the process of getting out of bed at 2 a.m. in a winter night, lighting a candle, and recording some happy thought which would probably be otherwise forgotten, will agree with me it entails much discomfort. All I have now to do, if I wake and think of something I wish to record, is to draw from under the pillow a small memorandum book containing my Nyctograph, write a few lines, or even a few pages, without even putting the hands outside the bed-clothes, replace the book, and go to sleep again." "Think of the number of lonely hours a blind man often spends doing nothing, when he would gladly record his thoughts, and you will realise what a blessing you can confer on him by giving him a small ‘indelible’ memorandum-book, with a piece of paste-board containing rows of square holes, and teaching him the square-alphabet." schnark.github.io/lewis-carroll/html/magazines/nyctograph.html Also useful for the military and astronomers who don't like lights at night.

[@MagnolyiaGrace]

This is the kind of thing invented by an author. An engineer or scientist would try to make it easier to light the candle and come up with a light bulb.

[@Tagraff]

Whenever you have a strange dream, it's hard to transition from slumber to wakefulness, scramble for writing materials, and jot it down - all while desperately clinging to the fading details of your recent dream. And now...That's a brilliant method and can be kept on my belly.

[@sharpieman2035]

Honestly makes sense considering the contents of Alice in Wonderland that he’d want to be able to write things down from his dreams as soon as possible.

[@matrixiekitty2127]

That you for contextualizing it cuz I don’t think our modern brains are processing his reason. Today if you have a crazy dream/idea you can just roll over and jot it down on your phone, that or voice app. However what you described is much trickier, not to mention writing by candle light isn’t the most reliable light source either!

[@theythemgae9025]

​​@@matrixiekitty2127 yeah even writing tools must be much easier to use nowadays, I'm often jotting down ideas (I write most of my stories by hand first) in the middle of the night with no lights on. Idk if the fountain pen had been invented or what but nowadays it's not that hard. Although it may be a skill in developed because I am a slow writer and at school the teachers would always change the slide before I'd finished writing so I learned to write while looking at the board and trying to memorize everything at the same time. It really freaked out my history teacher and he went to tell me off one time but got as far as "what are you doing? You're supposed to- oh what???" Because he glanced down and saw I was writing without looking

[@gusalexandrakis5151]

Everyone has a method for recording those dreams. My wife, who's a writer, scrawls hers on pads of paper kept on her nightstand for that purpose. Her light source? A 1920s 'boudoir' lamp with a 25 watt bulb

[@JSmellerM]

so that's easier than grabbing your smartphone open a recorder app and just record your dream without being limited to writing it down fast enough?

[@MarkEliasGrant]

I'm an occupational therapist and work in schools. I have made these and thought that I came up with the idea! It helps students who have challenges with spacing letters.

[@duitseles9687]

When I saw this video I was hoping whatever would work to write in the middle of the night would also work during the day, so I'm glad to see it does!

[@_S0S0]

@@PaddyMc5th😂

[@mspooner]

Nope! I'm going to scrunch my letters anyway!! (I'm left handed; spacing who)

[@MDuarte-vp7bm]

Different idea but you seem passionate. Admirable.

[@nicandknacksandseans]

"its too much work to light a candle. Imma just invent and learn an entire language instead. Much easier" -Lewis Carroll

[@hobbybugs1286]

More of a code but yeah

[@markjosephbacho5652]

Lol. Reminds me so much of J.R.R. Tolkien. He made a language and felt like it needs a story, so he wrote a book.😂

[@h4724-q6j]

Not an entire language, just an alphabet.

[@-karma-2426]

That's a cypher not a language

[@Aquiliqex]

Once learnt it would save a lot of time and candles back then were expansive

[@x88.berkay]

finally we know where Minecraft enchanting table comes from

[@PineconeBearzGaming]

look up the language hebrew, it looks a lot like this

[@JadenAizen]

@@PineconeBearzGamingNo it doesn’t

[@PineconeBearzGaming]

@@JadenAizen kind of does

[@OwlyFisher]

if anyone's curious it's actually the standard galactic alphabet

[@shrimpshufflr7745]

@@PineconeBearzGamingnot at all

[@xehanotmelodic7696]

As far as I know, Alice in Wonderland was, more or less, a dream diary.

[@magichappens5252]

He invented the story for his niece/s and then decided to turn it into a book

[@CalvaryCatalyst]

He was a pdfile obsessed with a girl named Alice liddell. He wrote his first lines of the book the same year he made friends with the Liddel family. This was more like his wet dream book in which Alice would do the drugging herself! We forget he was a decan in the Anglican church

[@Fergalanz-zv9gq]

@@helenaborgespeixoto7598 so true!!!

[@threeofsix3694]

Actually, it was a Neighbor's daughter. Her name was Alice and he told her the stories to entertain her (and other things). Her parents suggested making them into books after hearing talk about them. *Ah, I can't remember what else I wanted to type*

[@j.f.fisher5318]

Yeah that's what I'm getting from this.

[@vithalbhai6066]

Bro developed a whole new script to find the meaning of his dreams.

[@bradleyforde2601]

Looks Hebrew

[@Veroniquekky]

Lewis Carol also created a bunch of math logic puzzle problems now called his “pillow problems” because he would come up with them at night in bed “in order to avoid blasphemous thoughts” or something very very similar. Anyways, one of those problems evolved into the Monty Hall Paradox, which is a famous probability theory question. As an about to be graduate of my math major studies, I’ve seen mention of this guy. Way. Too. Much. Haha

[@reichen609]

Cool. But blasphemous thoughts? Like?

[@Oleg_K.]

​@@reichen609Like following a rabbit in a vest into a hole in the ground.

[@mcbrite]

@@Oleg_K. Well, you got the hole part right...

[@vanillablossom]

@@reichen609 I heard he liked little girls too much. It was delivered in hush hush vibe, like it's not certain or too dangerous to talk about it openly

[@zackbuildit88]

​@@reichen609sex and sexuality were still considered immoral and taboo back then

[@anthonystevens9863]

Looks like futuristic Hebrew lol

[@toxicginger9936]

Exactly my thought.

[@Condog]

I was scrolling to see if anyone else had the same thought

[@jessicasoares466]

​@@Condog same

[@damaracarpenter8316]

I thought the same!

[@nathanbeer3338]

As a Hebrew speaker I agree.

[@Polygonlin]

Yeaaaaah. id just light the fucking Candle.

[@doctorquestian]

He needed to go down to the dollar store and buy himself a cheap ballpoint pen

[@canucanoe2861]

Spoken like someone who has never woken in the middle of the night with an inspiration or idea for writing.

[@MiaRae_84]

i would just sleep and wait till the morning😭

[@ballsack1039]

You say that as if you have ideas important and groundbreaking enough to be worth lighting a candle for. He wrote dozens of books that are still relevant today and are considered classics in today’s time. The ideas he wrote down in the middle of the night changed literature and fiction forever. What’re you gonna do? Write “your mom” on a piece of parchment?

[@beforedrrdpr]

​I dont even need a light, I can write anything I want in the dark, and it is still fucking legible the next week, ​@@canucanoe2861

[@forciaroandha9855]

I learned Esperanto years ago because I wanted to be able to talk to myself without anyone around me snooping. The only difference is I'm medicated now.

[@MUTHU_KRISHNAN_K]

"I am limited by the technology of my time " - Howard stark,iron man 2 😢

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Except Carroll wasn't an engineer...

[@mr.voidout4739]

Most somber moment in the whole MCU, that recording that Tony's dad left him.

[@evergreenforestsystem]

ain't this the cipher language they used in the secret agent sections of club penguin 😭😭

[@rustinstardust2094]

Wha??

[@evergreenforestsystem]

@@rustinstardust2094 google my dude

[@morighani]

i know exactly what you’re talking about lolll

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Man of culture

[@green0563]

That was a little different, it was circles and crosses inside the boxes

[@April-b-8by4.20oz]

*Enchanting table*

[@WaterOnTheHill-xp3yx]

I had an idea at 3 Am, now my paper has Unbreaking 1

[@loblollypine8223]

Hebrew

[@mariothenonplumber]

Yep

[@farzana_614]

i was thinking the same it looks so similar!

[@sophisticatedPJs]

I'm glad us artists have always been getting random bursts of inspiration at 2am to our own detriment

[@robertgronewold3326]

The biggest issue was that candles back then were pricey, especially the white ones that gave off a lot of light. You didn't want to be wasting a ton of cash keeping your room lit just for writing notes.

[@memkiii]

Nope. This is 1891 not 1281. The height of the British Empire & We are way past the industrial revolution. Houses in the UK weren't mud huts with peasants shivering until dawn. They had electric & gas supplies, gas lamps, lanterns, arc lamps, and cheap mass produced WHITE paraffin wax candles just like we have today.

[@GonzoTehGreat]

False. 👎 By the late 19thC candles were mass produced, so widely available and affordable.

[@gusalexandrakis5151]

@@memkiii Also, Lewis Carroll became rather well-off as a result of his writings. He certainly could afford candles, and probably had gaslight installed later

[@BigSirZebras]

was he that hard up for cash? could he not have used less bright purple candles?

[@LM-fn6qb]

@@GonzoTehGreat But Elizabeth Gaskell wrote about people only lighting one candle because they were so expensive. They weren't poor people either. This was around 1850.

[@EinsamPibroch278]

Kinda looks like Hebrew.😮 Do we make a Nyctograph ourselves, or is there a standard template we can buy?

[@fast1nakus]

It's a piece of paper with holes. The size doesn't matter. As long as you follow the rules of this language, it can be done at any size.

[@GGreenix]

omg I'm an Israeli and literally thought the same

[@ciprianpopa1503]

that's how the hebrew wrote ther bible. In the dark.

[@ikeu6433]

@@GGreenixgross 🤢🤮

[@fast1nakus]

@@ikeu6433 you are

[@muhammad.hameem]

It's better to light the candle than to curse learning this device

[@rataflechera]

You, neurotypicals!

[@SianaGearz]

OK but how do you light a candle if you don't have a modern butane lighter? And how do you ensure not to fall asleep with the candle still burning, since in absence of electronic fire alarm, it would with a pretty scary likelihood start a fire that would suffocate you well before you wake up?

[@RivetHead999]

You know on at least one occasion, the next morning he woke up and looked and was like “wtf does this say?!” Like me trying to type drunk thoughts on my broken phone and waking up the next morning saying “wth was I trying to say?”

[@Padraigp]

I am mind blown. I never knew people had a problem writing in the dark. OK it won't be perfectly lines but wtf it's just a bit uneven. It's like learning people can't see imaginary images in their heads or that the top rail can be moved down in the dishwasher 😂

[@Padraigp]

​@SianaGearz you blow it out before you fall asleep and you also have a thing which goes around the candle that snuffs it out where you place it and you like the candle from the embers of the fire because you don't let fires go out when you don't have lighters and central heating or electric anything.

[@jakeb3779]

bro was literally writing in enchantment table 💀

[@LanguageSimp]

Woah that’s cool

[@whohan779]

Found the LuoDingo guy

[@LunarEclipse-eg1xq]

Bro about to learn this language next

[@enzokyrosblanca6320]

dam its him

[@jinxed-truly]

I can agree

[@fwogmsm57]

WHY ONLY 13 LIKES

[@Panzerfaust_1939]

Me who can already write things down without looking at the paper but still managing to write straight sentences, adding this to my cart:

[@somebody3319]

Why you gotta flex on us mortals like that😭😭

[@Panzerfaust_1939]

@@somebody3319 Immortal aroace

[@bbbbbb-xf9tr]

Miserable lies.

[@ladyreptilia]

I guess is easier for people who draw, we can put images into the right lines. I can also have clear handwriting in the dark only problem is the space between lines

[@demophys4883]

Imagine trying to find the stencil, pad, and pencil in the pitch black room . . .

[@x_.mizuki._x3231]

You just keep it under your pillow

[@FrootzKat]

we invented this really interesting device called a side table you keep by your bed with shit you need to reach without getting up in the dark i fumble for my phone in pitch blackness at like 3am all the time and manage to find it, he probably just kept it in a drawer so he could easily feel around without knocking stuff off

[@titaniumjunky]

To be fair, you still have moonlight, it's just really hard to write in it. Finding your stuff at 2 AM isn't as hard.

[@olinelvgreen2062]

​@@FrootzKatwhen you write with ink, you need a flat surface, you cant do that in bed otherwise it will be such a mess

[@EmpressLizard81]

​@@olinelvgreen2062 besides ink being drippy (note: modern fountain pens hadn't been invented yet), if he was using a dip pen, how would he know if he was out of ink, or if he had dipped far enough into the bottle? And even if he did have an early version of a fountain pen, there's gonna be so much smeared ink from fingers and sliding that card around. I hope our boy used a pencil!

[@angelramirez936]

My tired ass thought she said *READ* in the dark, and I immediately perked up 😂😂😂😂😂

[@theclumsypanda524]

"This whole neurodivergent trend today is getting out of hand, everyone is neurodivergent now apparently?? Back in my day everyone was normal!" .......Artists 100 years ago making an entire tool and new language to write down 2am ideas..... XD

[@brettwilliams124]

I love how people think that creativity and innovation just means you’re autistic. Having real skills? Autistic. Anything that isn’t video games and liking sports is autistic. Train yourself to not associate those things. Some people are just smart, it doesn’t mean they have something weird going on in their brain that you don’t understand.

[@Suekru3]

Not a new language, it’s still English, it’s just a different font.

[@fulltimeonfire8536]

​@@brettwilliams124 you have -standing outside the window watching everyone else having a good time in the party- vibes 😂😂😂

[@TheTrueDoomSlayer]

He's right though. ​@@fulltimeonfire8536

[@candyeatv]

​@@brettwilliams124neurodivergence is not just autism

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

Lewis Carroll strikes me as the kind of guy who would have had a lot of fun with this.

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Carroll "invented" his nyctographic alphabet 7 years before his own death in 1898 (aged 66), so it was likely motivated by a desire to compensate for his failing eyesight, (due to old age), as anything else. Meanwhile, Edison, had the same problem, so he invented the first commercial light bulb in 1879. 😎

[@lexisbowinkle9273]

*crowd sourced

[@bakatsunaze]

Yeah.. Edison invented...

[@chascapwell2041]

Meanwhile Braille had been around since 1824.

[@keeja760]

Dumb comparison, since they are professionals in completely different fields, and of course their solutions would be in line with their field of profession. Lewis isn't a scientist, why the fvck would you compare him to one? Sigh.

[@Celestiana06]

Retracted my like because you claim eddison invented the bulb. Tesla did. Nice try.

[@seifer6700]

This was a surprisingly informative short. Well done. Awesome invention as well

[@pangpengmaster]

You are a consistent and passionate KZbinr I just found and I enjoy every single short you crafted. You'll grow big, we can see.

[@DrawntoBooks]

Thank you!! 🫶

[@-karma-2426]

Tbh, i kinda get him. Maybe it's cuz i pick up writing systems and cyphers really easy and i like learning them, but learning a cypher is not at all as hard as people make it out to be. You just write a bunch in it and you get used to it, it becomes second nature, even when you still writing it for a while. Same with normal writing systems. Ive "relearned" one of my favorite cyphers, Willow script sp many times, and after the 2nd time, every time i relearn it I'm able to pick it up again almost instantly, i only need the key for letters i dont often use. Same thing with Greek, didn't write or read it for like, 2 months, and when i came back to it, i only forgot the letters i didn't use often.

[@annastasia.1]

It isn't like oh it's so hard. It's just ridiculous. You clearly don't need any of this. You could just write normal letters in the dark. Or light a damn candle.

[@-karma-2426]

@@annastasia.1 but the entire point is that he doesnt want to do either of the things you mentioned because he found they didn't work for him. She literally said that in the vid.

[@annastasia.1]

@@-karma-2426 yeah. It worked for him but it doesn't mean it isn't ridiculous.

[@-karma-2426]

@@annastasia.1 meh I disagree, I think you're looking at it from a modern perspective, and from YOUR personal perspective. Writing normally in the dark did not work for him. There's no reason he works force himself to do it. Candles were expensive, and writing my candle light is white anyways, especially when you're groggy and your eyes need to adjust. He could keep taking time to light candles and waiting money, wax, and time when he forgets his ideas. Or he could make a cypher that's pretty quick to write in, and that he can use forever after inventing once that saves him time, money and wax.

[@JeanClaude-go6br]

I thought I was the only one, I even started making a language 😅

[@adarshnair8726]

Is it me or does it looks very like Hebrew script?...or..font?😮

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

yeah

[@loserlane]

that’s the first thing i thought

[@peridavis7709]

As someone who knows Hebrew, not really but I can see what you are mean

[@rainbows5232]

as an israeli if anything it looks like backwards hebrew

[@KaoticIndustrial]

I would say because a lot of ancient writing was on hard surfaces where straight lines and dots were easier than curved letters.

[@Tanka.Jaharii]

Bro invented the minecraft enchantment table language without realising it

[@MannSoni5533]

😂

[@Csilva857]

Imagine the pen was out of ink , or the pencil tip wasnt shap enough. So much for writing in the dark

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

😂. When lewis carroll was alive, the only pens that existed were quill pens that you dipped in an inkwell. So he would never have run out of ink, because ink-filled pens hadn’t been invented yet. But you can’t write with a quill pen and an inkwell in the dark.

[@HannibalKing-e7e]

Ok? That was a problem for writers in the day as well? I bet you have a counter point to everything though huh. I bet you're one of those guys.

[@Csilva857]

@@HannibalKing-e7e in the day time you would know if you pencil wasn't writing or if you needed to dip your pen in the ink. I bet you add useless comments everywhere though huh. I bet you're one of those guys.

[@the3picpr0_66]

We found the enchanting table language boys

[@gasaiyukiteru9520]

I was looking for this comment

[@elsolitariodrogado]

Found it!

[@wowalamoiz9489]

Sooo... Hebrew?

[@SamEy3Am]

I love this! What a cool little piece of history! I had never heard of this before.

[@NickMak-m2c]

I mean if your own personal little inventions were a part of history I'd have a chapter or two

[@sucheta1017]

I actually get it. At his time as there was no electricity so lighting just a candle in the middle of the night is a hassle and in that hassle the great idea that fueled him to wake up and write at that moment might just go away or alter. He needed to write as soon as he gets the idea and nyctograph was the solution for him. ❤

[@Anime-chan-gl4pe]

It looks similar to Hebrew.

[@kvzgm6316]

It’s almost identical! 😂

[@whohan779]

@@kvzgm6316 Nah, just similar

[@itsDalal]

I was searching for this comment. Very similar to Hebrew

[@Nightcool678]

made a couple nyctographs. Not at Carroll's level but I can write a couple lines in the dark.

[@codyoftheinternet]

Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carrol) was a professor of mathematics and it shows here!

[@EbenBransome]

He was actually a Student of Christ Church, basically a paid researcher with tenure, not a professor. He made so much money from the Alice books he never needed to worry about promotion. The reason he's largely forgotten as a mathematician is that he was interested in continuous functions, not discrete ones.

[@Osafune2]

He was also a weird guy and a paedo

[@robydemoxXx]

In Italy we have an expression to mean "the advantages are not worth the disadvantages" we say "the game isn't worth the candle" The expression was born when people played cards in gambling halls but because it was dark they had to light a candle... if the stakes weren't high enough the candle was worth less than what you could win and therefore -the game wasn't worth the expense of the candle-.

[@RyanK-100]

It's like the alphabet we used to use with the Palm Pilot digital assistant. It came with a pen and no keyboard. You would just enter the letters by pen and it would convert them to typed text.

[@alphakevin687]

Not that similar really. Graffiti gestures (this is how they are called) looked very similar to the letters they represent, and they did not have any dots or a grid that you needed to stay in. So the letter A was just a roof shape without the horizontal bar, the letter E was a backwards 3 and so on.

[@climbingdan]

I used Graffiti handwriting for years, and you had to stay in a grid, so I find it similar, too

[@joannebaek4551]

That system would be very fast to learn and very easy to use. Simple simple letters. I taught myself braille visually, so I've played around with such - this looks great to me. Just getting the card or making one is the part that keeps me from trying it.

[@jonathansl109]

That's what keeps you from trying it... Really, huh

[@AngelBolt]

Bullet journal stencils. They come in plastic or metal and have rows of squares sometimes for quick month layouts. Making oje is possible, just expect it to get worn.You can also use grid paper to visually get the shapes down to practice.

[@Levittchen4G]

Bro, cartboard, a box cutter and some surface to cut on, make the grid with a ruler and pencil and cut it out with the knife. I know you you can it.

[@farrazaulia2917]

This looks like the enchanting table language

[@daviddavies2467]

I love learning new stuff like this, thank you.

[@dancam4685]

Lewis-Get your Lazy Azz up and light that candle.

[@TheWorldsStage]

This is good for writing something in code no one else understands, or maybe in a situation where it's literally impossible to get to a light source, but learning an entire morse code language just so you don't have to light a candle, that doesn't seem easier. He would have been easier to just invent the light bulb

[@jordanguelbert7754]

its not really a language, more a script with a few extra morphograpic symbols

[@Justal01]

Also good for Alice-themed escape rooms

[@athenarocks7657]

It takes maybe a week and a half to consistently learn a new script or font like that. It takes a lot longer to invent an electrical grid so you can make light.

[@TheWorldsStage]

@@athenarocks7657 I see... how long does it take to look up the definition of hyperbole? Just curious

[@athenarocks7657]

@@TheWorldsStage imagine being mad that tone doesn’t translate well in KZbin comments.

[@Ocro555]

Is it just me or that legitimately looks like Thai from a distance

[@rataflechera]

I was thinking Hebrew

[@ThatsaTechnicalFoul]

I love tidbits of historical information like this, especially when it involves writing. What a cool video! ❤

[@katsmith8263]

To light a candle that stays right next to you on your nightstand is almost the same as to light a lamp!!!!!!😅😅😅😅😅

[@ralphmourik]

Reminds me of SGA: Standard Galactic Alphabet used in the Commander Keen video games. And later the enchanting spells in Minecraft are also SGA, at some point I could actually read it without help 💪🏻🤓

[@Johnny_art333]

MIRACULOUS ALPHABET

[@LuzNoceda2020]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT! literally my first though seeing this video

[@Johnny_art333]

@@LuzNoceda2020 me tooo!❤️‍🩹

[@LuzNoceda2020]

@Johnny_art333 I just love spotting miraculous fans in the wild

[@vaniavivanco]

I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY IT

[@beyond-samsara]

That's a pretty dumb and at the same time intelligent solution.

[@Luca_Canc]

Bro writed in Minecraft language Edit: Oh my F##k, I've never got 494 likes. P.S. Ok, I understand the lesson, now can we please talk about the joke? Edit N.2: 677 Likes, That's crazy Edit N.3 : 779 Likes, Wow, a big Number for me, but we can still do more. PLS

[@supreme6295]

Bro wrote this comment in engrish

[@Luca_Canc]

@@supreme6295 I'm not English, I'm Italian

[@arimantine]

writed

[@DescendDab]

​@@Luca_Canc hi Italian, im dad

[@wookiethedog]

⁠@@DescendDabItalian’s a strange name, is it Greek?

[@annastasia.1]

I mean you can still write down things normally in the dark. What exactly is stopping you?..

[@roundrobinx]

my ideas - how lazy you can be? me - 🗿

[@mikebaker2436]

There's alot about Lewis Carroll that I am glad still remains in the dark.

[@mondblumenlicht736]

I'm not sure anyone else noticed that but it's literally the miraculous alphabet!

[@velkanzi]

Pray tell, what is the miraculous alphabet?

[@ddichny]

@@velkanzi From the animated TV series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

[@Infinite_Flower]

Wait isn't this also the language of the grimoire in miraculous ladybug?

[@solarssolstice]

😭😭😭

[@dreamystone]

It is??

[@Infinite_Flower]

Yeah i learned it because i was trting to read the grimoire😅​@@dreamystone

[@dreamystone]

@@Infinite_Flower Oh, wow. I'd expect that to be in french though. Had any luck?

[@Infinite_Flower]

@@dreamystone most of it is english, some is french but i learn that at school so i'm good (my french teach is heckin scary)

[@AbdullahCumhur]

bruh just learn writing with your eyes closed even i can do it 😭

[@IDiggPattyMayonnaise]

Exactly. You don't need to see what you're writing. The only issue would be writing straight, and that can be solved with a straight edge

[@twistedoldloony]

@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise Yeah I find myself wondering how exactly he was able to write more than just the amount of characters in his nyctograph. How would you know how much to move it down the page so that you aren't overlapping your writing?

[@TheDramacist]

I feel a candle by the bed would still be easier

[@musicbysazid]

Bro found a problem and created another new problem himself

[@samuraijaydee]

Dunno, seems like way more work than the candle

[@kvzgm6316]

Hebrew, enchanting table, it’s all the same. Honestly, I’m convinced that any box-shaped alphabet is basically a variation of the Hebrew script.

[@ddichny]

Lewis Carroll was a logician and mathematician, it really shows in things like this, and the mind-bending stuff in the Alice books.

[@penultimania4295]

I don't know about you all but I could easily write using normal alphabet, with no help, in the middle of the night even if I can't see the paper (and let's not kid ourselves nowhere is PITCH black).

[@vanillablossom]

I could, too, but I don't think I could keep straight lines, since on blank paper (no lines / grid) mine tend to trail down or up in broad daylight 😅😂

[@penultimania4295]

@@vanillablossom I mean yeah possibly but it would be good enough for notes?

[@vanillablossom]

@@penultimania4295 I think so. I like his idea, though

[@edporter4208]

You havent been camping in the woods?

[@penultimania4295]

@@edporter4208 why would i be camping in the woods?

[@Isla_d_Rather_Not_Say]

It looks kinda like arabic, or hebrew

[@aenora515]

My handwriting is surprisingly, incredibly legible when writing blind. Its just hard to keep my sentences perfectly horizontal.

[@silkrock7295]

Forgotten techniques remembered! Love it!❤❤❤❤

[@ScubaShark--8964]

אז עכשיו אני יכול לכתוב עברית

[@KrzyGirl]

As a writer myself, he's real for that 😂 I'm so glad I can type up or audio note in the middle of the night when inspiration hits lol

[@iamrom]

Homie should've waited another century for the smartphone to come out

[@marthalylepaga7928]

As a huge ND Alice nerd , this is giving me ideas.

[@chinmaychandraunshuh]

Thanks to modern electrical connections 🙏 Even a task as mundane as switching on a light at night was not possible some hundred years ago, and we complain of our problems so much. Much Respect to Lewis Carroll for developing this brilliant idea. People in the comments don't seem to understand that it would have taken him some time to create the alphabet but in the long run it saved his time.

[@none_o_ur_bidnis]

Tell me you're insane without telling me you're insane.

[@Snicker433]

Nice to know nothing changes, waking up at 3am to write down an idea xD

[@NA-Zerosteel]

where is my nyctograph. I will light a candle to look for it.

[@チャン兄田]

This reminds me a lot of shorthand writing, in journalism. Don’t believe me? Look it up!

[@adelas1988]

Learning a whole new alphabet and memorising it for when you randomly wake up in the middle of the night, instead of just lighting a candle is adhd coded

[@Lightmagician60]

The fact I didn't need you to tell me that said "Hello" is actually the most fascinating part

[@Seven_Leaf]

This amount of laziness is amazing. It's truly a wonder to behold. This is a man who will do anything to not get out of bed before dawn.

[@danyellesibert6724]

Wow, I just learned a lot

[@flormacias2121]

I love learning new things. I didn't know that fact, thank you ❤

[@sethsmith9834]

He's so real for doing this much work just because he was tired af. Honestly same. 😂

[@angryfish8394]

Man made a whole new alphabet instead of getting out of bed

[@brendanohara3182]

Great short. Thank you

[@JeremyHelm]

Excellent study and adapting literary practices

[@chocoloconutty]

Most interesting thing I’ve learned on shorts probably ever!! 😊

[@KLove89]

Learning a new writing language sounds way easier that lighting a candle. Lol leave it to people to create solutions more difficult than the problem.

[@NilsAlbertsson]

The real pain, was having to get out of bed and light a candle to find his nyctograph and pencil!

[@markwildt5728]

I feel like it would be easier to just get up and light a candle than to have to create an entire new alphabet along with a unique way of writing it.

[@deanought3695]

This is actually brilliant!

[@Skellyflo]

So he invented a whole new alphabet instead of just having a candle and matches on his bedside table? I like this man