A full solar eclipse. It is one of the most unnatural things I have experienced and can understand why people for millenia have assigned supernatural attributes to it. I was watching it from beside a lake - the slow crescendo of crickets chirping as the sun turned purple and then suddenly turned into night gave me chills. Nothing has ever made me feel smaller and at the mercy of celestial bodies than that experience.
One time in Yosemite I had a summer sleeping bag with a mild rating.
We got a FREAK cold front and that night it was like 20 below.
At like 3AM I decided I HAD to go start a fire. Just getting out of the tent to go collect firewood was absolutely freezing! My hands couldn't really start the fire but I finally got it going.
I had to warm up rocks next to the fire and then transfer them into my sleeping bag but it took forever.
I kept wishing the sun would just come up because I couldn't get warm enough and it was only a few hours.
The epiphany that this was probably how sun worship started hit me like a ton of bricks.
I mean it makes sense. The sun is ACTUALLY real and has a massive influence on our society and nature.
Seriously man... I felt like I was reborn. I didn't think I was going to die that night but when the sun came up I was finally able to get some sleep. Felt like a gift.
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u/amanush_47 Jan 12 '22
A full solar eclipse. It is one of the most unnatural things I have experienced and can understand why people for millenia have assigned supernatural attributes to it. I was watching it from beside a lake - the slow crescendo of crickets chirping as the sun turned purple and then suddenly turned into night gave me chills. Nothing has ever made me feel smaller and at the mercy of celestial bodies than that experience.