Not if the forest is sufficiently dark that your night vision doesn’t have enough light to work with.
That seems like an easy case to test, provided you have some way to re-light the candle.
You need to make two assumptions for the analogy.
1) You can’t re-light the candle.
2) If you do things exactly right, you’ll get out with just before starving to death (or dying somehow) otherwise, you are dead.
Not if the forest is sufficiently dark that your night vision doesn’t have enough light to work with.
That seems like an easy case to test, provided you have some way to re-light the candle.
You need to make two assumptions for the analogy.
1) You can’t re-light the candle.
2) If you do things exactly right, you’ll get out with just before starving to death (or dying somehow) otherwise, you are dead.