Calming Sky

[PsychicTaco115]

As I've come to realize about myself, I am a very apathetic person; events happen and I just kind of shrug my shoulders and go "meh" about it, even if they're good things that happen. Hell, I don't even go meh, I just stare.

When things around me get loud and distracting, I sometimes just look up at the sky and just... look at it.

Nothing really special there, it's a sky, but that's the beauty of it; it's just there, in all of it's space and serenity. Nothing naturally loud or jarring, just blue and the occasional cloud. It makes me feel... something, I can't even describe it. It reminds me of a Zen-like experience, something I've been doing more and more of recently.

Have Escapists ever have that feeling of finding something like that?

 

[Euryalus]

Depending on what that something is... then maybe. Can it be described with the word "wow" and be experienced through music? Because if so it might be beauty... Or Sublime... ness.

I get it sometimes when I can focus well enough ( and shut my thoughts up).

...From stuff like this

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Happens to me sometimes. Not so much the apathy as just staring off into an overcast sky and being in that moment, just calm. Though, me not being apathetic most of the time, (not to judge you, taco buddy), this only happens when I'm walking around outside, alone, daytime, all is quiet, no one there... and theres the sky, all grey and... indescribable... usually, theres a breeze, too...

And sometimes, it leads me to think. Sometimes I get the feeling that I think too much. Then I realise it might be a good thing.

 

[Basement Cat]

It reminds me of a Zen-like experience, something I've been doing more and more of recently.

You said you wouldn't tell anyone, you cad!

OT: It sounds like you've played enough war games to develop the fabled "1000 yard stare in a small room".

I've been living in my mind most of my life. I don't watch TV and rarely movies. Often when I'm reading something I'll realize that I've been daydreaming or thinking of something for 30 minutes or more while ignoring the book/magazine in front of me.

Years ago when I lived in the country I'd sit on our porch and stare at the trees and yard and sky for long periods. I enjoy inner peace.

 

[Nouw]

I fucking love the sky, particularly clouds. Every day the clouds are different, and with the sun providing natural lighting the result is pure beauty. But alas, I haven't reached your level of enlightenment yet.

 

[Kae]

The Moon does that to me, I don't know why, it's the Moon, because of this when I'm really stressed I go out for a walk at night, doesn't work out very well when there's no Moon though since I just get more stressed and start walking faster, last time I ended up walking to the other side of the city.

 

[Zhukov]

Do you mean night sky or day sky?

Because personally I can sit outside staring at a night sky for like an hour. Although in the city you can't actually see stars because all the lights conceal them. It's just not the same. It's nice when I go out to the bush to visit family and you can see stars at nightOH MY GOD THIS SO FUCKING CORNY SOMEONE MAKE ME STOP!

Oh, also, animals. The world always seems a lot nicer and simpler when you're patting a cow's nose or sitting with a lapful of cats.

Aaaand that's enough of that. My testicles are threatening to retract in protest.

 

[Kyrian007]

Yeah, I get that. I live in a city now... got a desk job and such. But I grew up on a farm. Every summer I take some time off to help out on the farm. I know... "work for vacation?" But it's like the op said sometimes. Sitting in the dirt after a long day, back up against a tractor tire. Drinking lemonade out of an old dented canteen. It's not the sky so much as it seems to be the connection with the earth... not "earth" in a new age "gaia" sort of way. But the actual dirt... the soil. Dust to dust and all that. I'm 35 but sitting there I'm 14 again. I'm where I have a connection to the land that has been in my family for generations. The memories of every summer in my head and one of my favorites still to come at harvest. Resting in the back of the grain truck on the way to the elevator, wheat grain conforming to your body in a solid way no waterbed or memory foam mattress could ever emulate. Looking up at the clear, evening, summer sky.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

I sometimes feel like this, but only at night. I don't like the sky during the day. The blue sky looks too solid. It looks like a giant blue barrier cutting the human race off from the rest of the universe. The night sky goes on forever. It lets you see that there's more to the world than just this planet and the strange people that live on it.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I initially thought OP was talking about the moderator sky14 and was ready to walk into this thread, bastard sword in hands, and go, "All right, who annoyed sky14 to the point where sky needs calming now?" Then I read the post...

I do that, too. I like it better when it's either the rising or setting sun kinda skies. They're beautiful beyond words. Kick on this music...


...and I am suddenly at peace with the universe.

 

[sky14kemea]

Wait why do I need calming down?

*reads OP* Oh, riiiiiiiiiiiight

Whenever I need to calm down, I just hide under the bedcovers and nap. Which is probably why I have so much trouble sleeping during the night. Totally worth it though.

That or I sing along to whatever's on the radio or my iTunes. Always makes me feel better.

I would stare at the sky too, but it ends up hurting my eyes. x_x

Edit:

I initially thought OP was talking about the moderator sky13 and was ready to walk into this thread, bastard sword in hands, and go, "All right, who annoyed sky13 to the point where sky needs calming now?" Then I read the post...

14! It's 14! D;

But I'm glad someone is willing to go into a thread swinging a sword for me. :0 Thank you, brave knight!

 

[Eleuthera]

I initially thought OP was talking about the moderator sky13 and was ready to walk into this thread, bastard sword in hands, and go, "All right, who annoyed sky13 to the point where sky needs calming now?" Then I read the post...

14! It's 14! D;

But I'm glad someone is willing to go into a thread swinging a sword for me. :0 Thank you, brave knight!

Maybe he's talking about your previous incarnation... but that might be more Timey's thing...

OT: Apathy is great, Not caring about stuff is what gets me through the day

When I do need calming my go to drug is music, depending on why I need to calm down there are several artists/genres I can fall back on.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Wait why do I need calming down?

*reads OP* Oh, riiiiiiiiiiiight

Whenever I need to calm down, I just hide under the bedcovers and nap. Which is probably why I have so much trouble sleeping during the night. Totally worth it though.

That or I sing along to whatever's on the radio or my iTunes. Always makes me feel better.

I would stare at the sky too, but it ends up hurting my eyes. x_x

Edit:

I initially thought OP was talking about the moderator sky13 and was ready to walk into this thread, bastard sword in hands, and go, "All right, who annoyed sky13 to the point where sky needs calming now?" Then I read the post...

14! It's 14! D;

But I'm glad someone is willing to go into a thread swinging a sword for me. :0 Thank you, brave knight!

Has been edited! My bad, though. Coulda sworn it was thirteen...

 

[piinyouri]

I do somewhat often, though I may be staring at the sky, I'm thinking beyond that.

Imagining space and all it's possibilities has the same calming effect.
Thinking and realizing the higher echelons of universal organization can make you feel very very small and insignificant.

 

[Angie7F]

I do the looking up at the sky thing too, and it works.
I also like to play with my dog.
My dog always reminds me to chill out.

 

[IndomitableSam]

I love just sitting and watching the sky/world around me. I often do it for long stretches. My favorite thing to do when the weather is nice is just to lay down in the grass and look up or close my eyes and enjoy the sun. If I didn't get sunburned/itchy easily, I'd do it for hours.

It's best with a cat beside you, curled up against your side. ... Except I can never do that again with my boy, since he passed away last month. And my parents are selling the house I grew up in.

I'm guessing it'll be melancholy the next time I lay down in the backyard of my parent's house... because it will be the last time I look up through the tree that was a spindly little thing when I was a baby and I can now, 28 years later, barely wrap my arms around.

Now I've depressed myself and possibly others.

 

[Latinidiot]

Bweh,it's always raining here. But I am quite known to lose myself in thought, even in social situations where I realize that people were talking, and I just sat with my hand hovering slightly over my drink, as though I had been planning to take a sip when I fell into daydreaming.