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- Aereo, on 05/20/2008, -4/+81Yeah, because then you're all like... "Holy *****, I'm not on Earth"
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -2/+69This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do - Surferess, on 05/20/2008, -3/+69It has got to be a serious paradigm shift for them to look back down at the Earth.
- alapoet, on 05/20/2008, -4/+54I would love to know that feeling for myself!
- Bukowsky, on 05/20/2008, -1/+45I can only imagine the feeling of leaving Earth, and being able to look back down upon it from outer space..... It must be a completely surreal experience.
- Orion1004, on 05/20/2008, -2/+34A 21st century variety of religious experience that William James wrote about and taught at Harvard. Pretty profound stuff. It was captured too in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.
- AManWithNoName, on 05/20/2008, -1/+28So you not only feel like you're floating in space when you're high, but you feel high when you're floating in space?
- HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -0/+26I think that thumbnail is from the movie Sunshine, which is pretty good, and beautiful in HD.
- s0urce, on 05/20/2008, -0/+25Bowie out of nowhere!
- sykotik, on 05/20/2008, -1/+25I feel very strongly I've experienced this sensation as I've done my own form of meditation, and still do. I'm not trained in it, I've just got my own method of looking inside. Also, I like the fact that it was brought up in the article, because they indeed read as the same experience. Anyways, onward with my method, with brevity in mind.
A favorite mental exercise of mine is to sit on my porch and look at a tree. Then I close my eyes and imagine that I "leave my body" and see the top of my head, then I steadily zoom out until I see my block, then my city, all the buildings and people going about their daily business, unaware of my ethereal presence, further out, I see the city and surrounding areas, further out, landscapes and trees, nothing discernible beyond large structures like mountains, further, I see the continent, then the planet, further, just a pale blue dot, further, the solar system floating through the milky way, further and further.
Done correctly, suddenly everything just *snaps* into perspective. You see life as it should be seen. Precious, minuscule, floating in an inky black sea of nothing, yet it's everything. You see that life is something to be embraced, to be loved, and lived to it's fullest until you're erased from this existence by death. Trivialities disappear, borders, differences, it all disappears and all you are confronted with is the cold, hard truth.
And that is that life is precious, rare, small, yet able to look up at the stars and see that it could be different, there could be no intelligence to contemplate upon itself or existence. The clarity is astounding. Everything seems inconsequential against the backdrop of the whole of the universe and this rare, precious thing we call existence. - tonaros, on 05/20/2008, -2/+20Try LSD or MDMA.
- erichw1504, on 05/20/2008, -1/+17dugg for David Bowie
- kidjay, on 05/20/2008, -2/+17they are in. *****. space.
if you go to space and don't feel that way, you have a problem. - Xanrez, on 05/20/2008, -0/+14Sounds very much like enlightenment through meditation.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+13Ive spoken with several astronauts, they a reflective and tolerant group of people
- fungusmonkey, on 05/20/2008, -12/+23Great article!
- TFGeditor, on 05/20/2008, -2/+13For some reason, it put me in mind of the metamorphosis "Superman" experienced on entering our solar system.
- xxMarka, on 05/20/2008, -0/+11*and
- DeadlyCouncil, on 05/20/2008, -0/+11Yet another life-altering feeling I will never experience... lol
- o0joshua0o, on 05/20/2008, -2/+13You can get this effect from meditation, too.
- Enlefo, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10Man, this makes me want to go to space even more.
- thescimitar, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9This is, of course, what theists and non-theists have in common (hopefully): humanism. It isn't just feel-good kumbaya nonsense; the universe is astoundingly large and we are inconceivably small. When we start to realize that we are a single organism, responsible for maintaining our tiny environment, we'll start to work together.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10I wish I were an astronaut...or even a cosmonaut.
- xutopia, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9If you liked this article I recommend reading Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
- Derrekito, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Magic Mushrooms
- defectDS, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11That happened to me the other day too! I can do it again too, watch:
*hummmmm*
*types in maps.google.com* - Laminarcissus, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8Yup, here's a video of the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, expressing his profound sense of interconnectedness, reflection, and tolerance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoyiJdeWT4 - Thousand, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6It is, from the scene in the viewing room. That flick was great - very rarely do you get a movie these days that is nothing but great, non-hollywoodized sci-fi.
- venuspcs, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6And your a dumb ass for insulting him.
- Archcoder, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7A handful of shrooms yields the same experience.
- zeusthemoose, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7Try Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds. They are legal to posses, although technically illegal to eat.When you eat about 10 of these puppies, google for directions, you will know the exact feeling. It is the most amazing thing you can possibly experience. For the first time, you will know what it truly means to talk to god, because he was within you all along, he was within all of us. The problem with LSD or MDMA is that it is almost too strong, more recreational than spiritual. For a real spiritual journey, try these seeds. You don't see any funny colors. Everything stays the same as it always has. Only, you unlock all of that universal knowledge that was inside of you bottled up all along. If you mix it with marijuana, it will intensify this feeling ten fold. Thats when you get pushed through the barrier whether you are ready to see it or not. Quite the experience indeed. But remember, there is always a risk because once you know, you cannot truly ever forget. You really need to be prepared for it.
- Merendino, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7This was indeed an interesting article. I've had such an experience back on December 12th of 2003. It would be impossible for me to describe in these comments as I tend to go off on tangents when I try to explain it to other people, but it is without a doubt the most profound thing that has ever happened to me in my life. I'm 24, and I am positive that it will remain the most intense feeling I have ever had, for the remainder of my life.
I read a great description of it once from a guy on a message board that focus's on this kind of experience. He said, "It felt like you were living in and directly observing a tree where the roots and branches grow together out of the trunk." - nubious, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6Actually I've read that in training astronauts to help prepare them for this experience they give them controlled doses of Ketamine, which does in fact give you this exact experience.
- Bith8654, on 05/20/2008, -1/+6There really was nothing he could do...not a damn thing.
- beermaker, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5i offer myself for future experiments, i just do this for the advance of science
- SteeleyDan, on 05/20/2008, -5/+10There's already a name for this phenomena, it's called becoming a Newtype
- MattB123, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4But is that necessarily bad?
- Greatn3ss, on 05/20/2008, -2/+6i once experienced something like this the first time i ever smoked marijuana
- SpectralSounds, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Reminded me of the Ren and Stimpy episode, "SPACE MADNESS!"
- purelithium, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Fascinating article. Great submission. I hope one day I can feel that sensation Mr. Mitchell describes.
- Wosat, on 05/21/2008, -0/+4Tool quoting Bill Hicks
- Sil369, on 05/21/2008, -0/+4If everyone went through the same thing, I wonder what impact it could have - would there be so much wars, hatred, violence in the world? How could things change and how long would it last?
- Bith8654, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4haha MAYBE *and but number two is almost always mixed, and number one in my area is all fake :[
- spect3r, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Actually, you are very correct. The feeling of being connected to everything around you is the ultimate goal of some types of meditation. I would suspect, however, that bringing on the feeling without having to work for it would be quite the experience.
I am not a organized religion kind of guy, but I am spiritual. I grew up going to the catholic church, and the ONE thing that has stuck with me ever since was when a priest told me "when we die, we will have a panoramic view of life and everything it entails - similar to floating in space being able to see everything all at once" - from that day forward I've become more spiritual - and do alot of meditation to try and envision it.. - manchoi44, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4I was reading through the comments for something like this... I also had such an experience while "impaired"...
Just goes to show you it's not all bad... - killerofkiller, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3then just make number 2 on your own ;)
http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/br ... - micro506, on 05/20/2008, -2/+5Note, the characters in that movie most definitely did *not* enjoy space euphoria.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3LSD has the same effect.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3I experience something very similar when I consume lots of DXM in cough medication. I am being completely serious here. Other travelers know what I am saying.
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