The darkness was crushing him from the outside when he got it.
The real answer to what the 'nothing' surrounding him was. The 'black' which depicted the nothingness in the surroundings was not the absence of color.
'It is the presence of all color.'
For what he had heard, and learnt, objects give off color due to reflection of certain colors of the white light and is perceived by the eyes which had been blessed by the Almighty to the living.
A leaf appeared green because it reflected the green contained in the white light, which composed of all the colors, and it absorbed all other colors. A hefty deceit posed to the Living by nature. A green was everything except green. It was such a simple deceit that people tend to forget the simplest of facts, such was the nature's prowess of convincing.
Remirg now had his answer.
Black was not 'nothing', but rather, it was everything.
