Something else about the sky
So I know we've had a huge block of stars, but I was thinking about other things in the sky. Like clouds, which were also mentioned earlier. About watching clouds and seeing their shapes, and making stories out of them. Well, I just had a story about my friends and me...and...well...clouds. It was wintertime and the sky was a brilliantly beautiful powder blue with scantily spread clouds in the sky. There was snow in the field and my friends and I had thought previously that it'd be extremely fun (and, in hindsight, ridiculous) to go and make snow angels in our t-shirts. Then we would just lay there and stare at the sky. Well, one of those days, while the sky was beautiful and the snow was crisp, we lay there, staring through squinted eyes at the sky that almost seemed to be reflecting the sun's rays into our eyes at a thin sheet of clouds. And if you look and position yourself in different places, you feel different things. And you see different things. We did the classic looking for shapes thing where we saw dragons and made entire stories at one point. But also, if you get everything attached to the surface of the earth out of your peripheral vision and watch the clouds move by, it feels like you're the one moving and the clouds are still. It makes you feel weightless, like you're in space and you just live in this place where gravity doesn't apply to you. Where you are free of all the restraints in your life and you can just be where the clouds are. It made me feel quite exhilerated and then, just like that, you either twitch, cough, or just blink and your focus is lost. And you can't quite get that feeling back. You have to be in this mind set. And I don't know what the mind set is, but sometimes, you feel it. And it's amazing.

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That feeling, at least how it seems to me, reminds me of a certain style of meditation that I really like. It's an awesome thing to do in the rain because first you have to lay down and turn off your senses and gain a kind of "focus-but-not-really-focusing" thing. And then you direct all the focus and energy of your mind to one specific spot on your body, like a square inch of space on your forehead or something. And then the only thing you can feel is this peace and the raindrops hitting that one spot you're focusing on. I don't really know how to describe it, but it just brings you to this state of completion and harmony. I really like it.
I was going to post a question asking you all if you've ever felt cosmic, but I think Sewei just started this conversation... cool.
When have you felt (become of aware of) that you're on a planet that's spinning in space? That you're a part of an entire universe as opposed to just being an observor...
and, hi ty. nice to see you here. maybe introduce yourself to other folks here on the 'who we are' post...
Flaming Lips concert. It may seem hard to believe that you can feel cosmic at a concert but I really don't believe that anybody can understand until they've experienced the cosmic energy of a Flaming Lips concert. Just listen to a couple of their songs. "Vein of Stars", "W.A.N.D" and "All We Have is Now". If fate decides it, you will begin to understand what I'm talking about. Just as you said, Janis, it makes you feel part of the Universe. Or maybe I'm just insane.
Today:
We had a snowday [yay!!!] so I called my friend kim and she and her twin sisters and I walked over to the sledding hill and played in the snow for a really long time. We sledded down the hill and ran back up it a few times until we got tired and we all collapsed down into "snowangel position." We were all incredably happy because it was a school day and we were playing outside--YEAH! And then kim was like "I'm fighting the urge to eat some snow right now" and I was so happy she said that because I had been fighting the same urge for some time now--i was really thirsty--but i didn't want everybody to think I was weird.
And so we all ate snow.
And then Jillian (Kim's sis) was like "Isn't it weird that we're EATING water?" and I was like "yeah, and you know what's weirder, it's the same water that keeps getting circulated since the beginning of the earth, isn't it?" (I think we talked about this in Rain once) Anyway, everybody thought that was funny so we sat up talking about who's water we were eating like "What if it's the water from the flood of Noah's Ark" or "What if this is the water that some dinosaur drank" Or "what if this is the water that grew one of those huge trees that are like hundreds of years old and they're so big that you have to build streets around them or through them--or a baobab!" (Kim and I both love The Little Prince hints the baobab reference) this went on for a really long time.
And then we ate snow again.
It makes me feel connected--maybe not to the universe but to the earth at least--because the same things that keep me alive have been keeping others alive for years and years and years.
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I seem to get that feeling whenever I'm in transit. Waiting for the bus, riding on the bus, when I'm driving, anytime you're in a confined space moving. And then you happen to look at the sky and you notice...You're not moving so fast, that as fast as you might think you're going, Everything around you moves so much faster. Makes me feel pretty small. Which I don't think is necessarily bad.
It just means that there's so much not known to us. So you never really have to stop learning and discovering. You don't have to stop being in transit.
letting raindrops fall on your foreheard, parasailing, listening to really good music, eating snow, watching the clouds, being in transit... wow. these are all such awesome and specific experiences. i can totally see how they could all make you feel cosmic.
as for me, i think i feel most cosmic when i'm on top of a big mountain, or even hill. there's something about being this little tiny speck on top of this great mass and feeling like i could be blown away at any moment. there's also standing in the ocean and feeling the ground sucked out from under my feet with the tide... that makes me know that nothing is solid or stationary; everything is always in motion.
and dani, i think you ate the raindrop that fell on ty's head... and probably the one that was in rainboy's palm as well. how perfectly would that fit into a sequel???
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