For me its opening the apple weather app and the map in it and watching the temperatures and wind patterns all around the world
The colours are beautiful in winters
Going on a run in the evening, when the weather is shit. Usually the streets are empty, I feel the rain on my face, the wind. I can catch glimpses of cozy people in front of their TV, or in their kitchen and imagine them to be happy about the fact that they are inside in this weather. I also get happy thinking about returning to my couch, after a run the couch seems to be extra comfy and the food better. But before that I speed up to max out my capacity and the feeling of being alive, by getting extra soaked through, cold and exhausted. It’s great.
Originally wasn’t going to comment, but I get a very similar feeling being inside a car parked on a road during the rain. It’s an odd feeling watching someone walking home quickly through the rain while you sit in another dark car, dry and unnoticed.
Sounds really similar. I also like that :) Maybe it’s the feeling of being absent from the world, like a small “Stop” Button. I don’t know.
Huh watch out, the fuck cars community is gonna be after you.
PS: I feel the same as you.
Somewhat adjacent feeling, but being out in the snow, especially in a deep blizzard. Different feelings if you are out in a town/city or out somewhere rural.
I love the snow though. I don’t usually get sick of it quickly.
I don’t smoke, but I like hanging out with people who do, because it gives me an excuse to go outside in the Wintery cold for a brief and clearly defined chunk of time. I like the sharpness of my skin almost as much as the soothing respite of returning inside.
By shitty weather I thought you meant the shitty weather I usually have here (30 to 38 Celsius on average) yeah I wouldn’t mind the rain (even when it can be risky) but running with my shitty weather hell no.
No, I would simply die trying to run in your shitty weather I guess :D
Thunderstorms. It reminds me of my place in the world and how I should stop taking myself so seriously.
I don’t have an answer right now, but this was a great question OP, and also your answer is great. It’s weird enough that I would have never thought that someone would.
Only thing that comes to mind now is a thing from Buddhism called the five remembrances. I’m not Buddhist, but I like quite a few Buddhist ideas and this is one of them. I don’t think of it as weird, but a few friends I’ve discussed this with have found it weird; they didn’t understand how this is a source of comfort to me, and they found it quite depressing to think about. I find it comforting for precisely those reasons, because I’m terrified of change, but it’s inescapable.
Anyway, roughly, they are:
- I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid ageing.
- I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness.
- I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death.
- I will be separated and parted from all that is dear and beloved to me.
- I am the owner of my actions, heir of my actions, actions are the womb (from which I have sprung), actions are my relations, actions are my protection. Whatever actions I do, good or bad, of these I shall become the heir.
That is not weird. To accept sadness is to welcome joy, the same way we would not enjoy sweet flavours if no other flavours were ever available.
Making eye contact with a rat, pigeon, or hedgehog.
I was raised around a lot of wildlife and aspects of cities can feel lonely and empty. Seeing other living creatures comforts me.
When I wake up while it’s still dark in the morning, I can hear the sound of trains in the distance. Specifically no horns or anything, just the sound of the engines / metal on tracks.
Bonus points because it was lightly raining today.
Those nautical twilight colours are gorgeous!
Dark bedroom, cats are put to bed downstairs (they chew feet so they can’t stay in the room with us), I put on some chill indie coffee house playlist and light some nag champa incense, and then I just lay there, staring at the ceiling. I don’t reflect on the past or ponder on the future, I just listen to the music, the distant trains and traffic, the rain, the wind, the leaves falling on the metal roof.
It’s my perfect beautifully braindead time. I can’t wait for legalization in our state, that’s the only missing component.
Being in and driving in super thick fog. The rest of the world is just gone. I love it.
Complete utter silence and darkness … complete darkness
I’m not saying it as a wish for death … it was my favourite way of going to sleep when I was a kid, just complete silent darkness for a few hours to get a good night sleep.
I haven’t had it in years … wife sleeps with a nightlight and there is always a window to the street light, the hallway light or some light somewhere and its never quiet any more, some machine is running, highway noises or whatever.
As a teen, I used to just board up my room at night, even place black out curtains at night time and seal up my doorway to block out the light in the hallway. I used to find comfort in being able to ‘see’ in the dark on my own. Don’t get me wrong, I’m afraid of the dark too and if I got caught in a strange new place in complete darkness, I’d probably freak out.
I do not like pure darkness.
I have mild synesthesia so I see patterns and colours when I hear noises and it’s louder in the dark. If I’m camping and there’s a sound of a stick breaking or a squirrel running by it will cause like flashes of bright colour and it keeps me awake.
Current society are losing the sense of beauty of night. The streetlights, the screens, vehicle lights, constantly stare at us. And the sounds ofc.
I remember my childhood in my grandpa’s village with such near complete silence in the dark nights, and I fall asleep anytime I recall that. Great to know I’m not the only to love them.
Most people I know hate it, but I absolutely love the feeling of a fly crawling on my arms or legs. It gives me this wonderful comfortable tingling sensation and I can’t get enough of it.
I think you win
I find confort in the fact someone put marshmallows in Jello and called it a salad, and everybody just went along with it.
Do you know got stupid my dumbest ideas are? Not as stupid as ambrosia salad. And that’s comforting.
Your posts take me back to 2007 where I was doing the same thing on the Nintendo Wii’s Weather Channel.
The Wii hit different.
Maybe you know this, but it is still possible to use the Weather Channel app thanks to hacks.
Looking up at the stars at night
@[email protected] I won’t say that’s weird to be honest
I was thinking the same, but I don’t really see my neighbours standing out in their garden in the middle of the night just staring at the sky
I don’t know if it’s weird or strange, but mine is my son’s favourite stuffed bunny from when he was a young child. He’s in his 20s now, and I keep his bunny next to my bed, and cuddle with it when I’m sad.
Smelling a roll of plastic garbage bags. There’s just something about that smell
There was a period of time when whenever my depression got really bad I’d put on some old Twilight Zone episodes, since the problems people have in those were a lot more fun to think about than my own.
