Do you ever spend nights gazing up at the stars?
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Yes, and I don't like it. Whenever I do I just feel trapped, knowing I'll never get to escape my prison.
I always feel "I can run left, forever, I can run right, forever, but I'm still here, I'm always here, and I'll never get to leave".
Once in a while I do. It makes me realize how insignificant my day-to-day problems are. The universe is an endless, mysterious, and scary thing, but that's what makes it beautiful. My mom use to tell me the night sky was a blanket with holes poked in it, and on the other side of that blanket was a bright and hopeful place where nobody ever died or hurt, and the light shining through are our stars. So when I look at the stars, I feel hopeful and happy :)
Living on a boat in a quiet, dark Caribbean island anchorage is even better than the mountains for star viewing.
On the trip south to St. Thomas from Bermuda, when I thought I was looking at a star as it went supernova. It got very, very bright, lighting up the whole sky, then it winked out completely.
When we arrived in St. Thomas and went online we found that it was indeed a supernova.
It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen, even better than the few shooting stars that have come down within the visible horizon, while we were sailing in the South Pacific.
I do. When I do, I find myself realizing I'm actually gazing into a time machine and seeing what happened millions and billions of years ago in almost unimaginable times and distances. I find myself in awe of the fact that for the briefest glimmer of time, I'm conscious of it all and I'm lucky to have found two or three others that I love in the vastness of a universe. So, yeah, I enjoy watching the stars --- and wondering sometimes, who or "what" is out there and perhaps watching from their own piece of rock around their own star and gazing up toward ours.
I did about a month ago and I noticed three bright stars, brighter than the others. Now my father had died a few months earlier. And I was thinking it was him joined with his parents. I couldn't get that out of my head that maybe when we die we become stars? Who knows?
Dark, loneliness, and the dark sky... oh these things scare me so much! I cannot stay alone out at night neither can I sleep in the open sky! so no I don't think so I will be able to do that..
but oh yes I remember when once I was lying in the open sky with my mom when I was a child because we were in a village and I couldn't sleep because of cough problem so all I could do was stare at the sky and I don't remember anything except the feeling of extreme fear I had that time!!
Yup. In the summer, on a clear night. It's very realaxing. Gives you time to think. Time to zone out completely. And time to admire the beauty of our galaxy (Well a small part of it, but still)
No. I would like to since the light pollution isn't too bad here, but much more important to me is being awake during the daylight and I don't feel like I an have both.