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I always though a lot of human arrogance would melt down if we had to regularly spend a few days in the desert. It resets your internal scale: nature is big, yo
by BiteCode_dev 4y ago
I always though a lot of human arrogance would melt down if we had to regularly spend a few days in the desert. It resets your internal scale: nature is big, you are small, cities are amazing oversized camp fires that help us forget that fact for the night.
The first time you look up and you feel all alone, like you could fall in the infinite cosmos and nobody can do anything about it, is really special.
- bamboozled 4y agoCompletely agree, I remember the first time I realised the earth is really a spaceship, cruising through more beauty than the mind can comprehend, that experience was in the desert.
- dylan604 4y agoThere's a pretty cool experience to have that I learned from attending Burning Man that they call taking a "space walk". You basically just start walking towards the horizon away from the main camp. As you get further away leaving the noises and lights of the event behind you, you just become eneveloped in the silence and darkness with the only thing visible are the objects in the sky. You can probably do something similar at a lot of dark sky places, except the vast flatness in the desert means you can walk in a long way in a straight line without interruption. This just adds so much to the being alone experience