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The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck
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Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#1 - 2012-09-05 10:06:03 UTC
Apparently it expands your mind, making neurons fire a lot. Making us more empathetic,giving. Big smile

Watch and awe
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#2 - 2012-09-05 10:19:01 UTC
I felt this when I went on an aeroplane for the first time.
2 weeks ago.

The clouds were beneath me.

They were shimmering gold in the sunlight.

A thunderstorm somewhere over a random batch of England.

I wept at the beauty and I don't think I have been awed like that in a long, long time.

In other news I have also thrown myself entirely into my engineering degree, money somehow means less to me now and the pursuit of knowlege and self-fulfilment (looking at an EngD after my masters in 3 years now instead of making money).

A bit of a self centered thing, but this phenomena feels real to me, that the human mind transcends itself and becomes more when awed as a permanent reshuffling.

Also I view Edinburgh as a town now more than a city... Ugh

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Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#3 - 2012-09-05 12:40:34 UTC
Kudos for the engineering thing, hope you make it. And i's hard to be awed these days, one really have to be in the real place.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#4 - 2012-09-05 15:12:41 UTC
A Blue Angels fighter jet flight demonstration had me in awe a while back. On the beach, and six F/A-18 Super Hornets doing precision flying over the water. There's one part where four jets do this beautiful, incredibly smooth roll in formation. While everybody's looking off to the right marveling at that, another jet does a low and close "sneak pass" from the left. It's going close to the speed of sound, so you don't hear-- it arrives at the same time as it's sound. It's ear-splitting, and at that speed the thing is pushing a cone of vapor all around it. Tens of thousands of people gasp, then all laugh at the same time when they realize they've been pranked. The incredible power of the jets, the beauty of the precision flying, and then the humor-- it makes a pretty awesome moment.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#5 - 2012-09-05 15:29:58 UTC
One of my favorite moments:

About five years ago, I was rocking my then-infant son to sleep in his room one afternoon. I kept seeing little flashes of color out the corner of my eye, coming from the gap in the curtains on the window. After I laid him down, I satisfied my curiosity and looked outside.

It had rained earlier that day, and the cedar tree in my back yard was still wet. Its leaves had small drops of water all over it, and the sun had moved just behind it. What I was seeing was the sunlight refracting through each of those little drops of water. The color I'd seen was a prism effect and with every movement of the tree, every time I moved my head a bit, each drop changed color. It was such a subtle and rapidly-changing thing that film couldn't do it justice. I didn't even try to take pictures...I just stared until the sun moved on and the moment passed.

I wrote a short journal entry on it later that day. I remember one specific line from it: "I saw a thousand tiny rainbows, one color at a time."

Never stop finding wonder in the world.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-09-05 21:45:34 UTC
You know what works better? Paralyzing terror, makes you realize that nothing else is scary so you'll never hesitate. Will save your life so you can think for another day Big smile

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