I’m feeling too serious. What do you do to experience awe?
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Picture the back of my head and then earth in my head and zoom out as far as I can imagine.
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You got a nice man ass around that you can jiggle? Works every time for me🤷♀️
Something with space. Could be a James Webb telescope documentary, or total crazy deep space shit.
Brian Cox is a space guy who is just delightful to listen to.
For "awe", I climb a peak and take in the view. Maybe that helps me more than others, as my usual horizon is really close, due to hills.
For "aww", baby animals. 😜
Take a hike!
Quizás necesites salir a caminar un rato
Look at the stars
Take a slow walk with no goal 😁
When I want to feel awe, I usually take a walk in nature, look at the night sky, or listen to music that moves me. Sometimes just pausing for a moment and taking a deep breath is enough to make the world feel big and amazing again.
Sleeping underneath the stars. Do it about once/month.
Relax, walk, pray we make it through lol 😂
Good food for thought tho
Listening songs 🤘
Get crazy drunk
Smoke weed
Go up a massive and look at the view
Do psilocybin
Go to a beach/forest/nature reserve
Enjoy having survived whatever stuff
With friends
Drink
Late
Sad
Me
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Mine was weed but I quit for the year.
Yea I quit for ages, only recently did it again since a bereavement. While I was off it the most awe inspiring thing I did was a 10 day vipassana retreat in 2023 (as taught by S N Goenka). I know there are centres all around the world where you can do this, if you go to https://www.dhamma.org you will find all the info you need. I did a bit of research before I did mine, which I found helpful, but each person is unique, so each has a unique experience.
watch Dave Chapelle
Read/learn philosophy, i.e. Deleuze, relate Archetypal and mythological concepts to my own life (Jung, Parmenides)... too many specific things to name, but essentially it boils down to engageing with things that spark conceptual vertigo within me :)
from Eugene Holland's "Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A reader's guide"
The fact these words can actually be written in a book and taken seriously is pretty hilarious to me 😁😂
The occasional "Shots of Awe" also doesn't hurt 😂
Smoke weed, Have sex and make memes 😉
I just stare at my bank account and feel awe at how fast the numbers disappear. 😁
I look at my cat. Specifically when he stares at a blank wall for three hours like he’s seeing the secrets of the universe. It’s either awe or he’s broken.
I’m currently in awe that you managed to get a blue checkmark on Primal. That’s the peak of human achievement right there.
I walk out to the west hill and watch the sun slowly drop below the horizon. I do this as often as I am able.
For example, when replying to your message...👺
- Get outside of light pollution enough to see the milky way at night
- Watch the sun come up over the mountains from the mesa on the other side of *the bridge* over the Rio Grande outside of Taos.
- Microscope looking at pretty much anything
(Signing off of this npub for good, but had to reply here.)
When I feel too serious, I spend some time tinkering with my Bitcoin node and digging into how it works. I try to understand one small detail better each time—watching it sync, verifying blocks, or checking how transactions propagate. Learning something new from the node always brings back a sense of awe.