That weird enlightened feeling?

Question

Ok, so you ever just been lazing around, maybe looking at the sky.
Maybe even just looking at nothing in particular, thinking about things bigger than yourself, when, you get that feeling.

It's like a tingle in your brain. This fleeting sensation of
/everything/ coming together. It's as if for one slight moment, if there was such a thing as enlightenment or true epiphany or whatever, you'd just found it.

I don't know if anyone can really describe this feeling to it's fullest. I'm not even sure how many people have it, but it hurts a great deal to loose it. And it's as if we always do loose it, like we aren't big enough to keep it.

I had this feeling more as a child than I do today, particularly when thinking about the idea of other people. Just the thought that, y'know, are we alone in the world--and if we're not, how is it inside other people?

It's an awfully odd question, yes. But still.
Thanks if anyone's so inclined to answer.

Answer 1

It was all here long before us and will be here long after we are gone..... you said it best: "we aren't big enough to keep it."

However I do think some of us are fortunate enough to realize that we are just as we are.

Our world has become so intolerant of the 30 seconds at the fast food drive thru, how can we handle Eternity!

Answer 2

Wow, I cannot wait till the day I get to experience such a thing. I sure hope that I do! Thank you for sharing it with us. It sounded like an overwhelming but amazing feeling. We all k now there is something out there bigger than us. There may have been the big bang.... the theory that we started from one molecule... but where did THAT molecule come from? Where did that ONE generate from? That's what I wonder about all the time.... I mean, how did it originally get here and when? Or was it formed by a higher power? CAN we embrace the possibility of the ability to make something from nothing?

Answer 3

I truly believe there is an "Ultimate Power" that is both inside of and outside of ourselves. Sometimes, when we are empty of ego, of ourselves, and let ourselves be truly 'open' we tap into that "Power", call it what you will. We cannot keep the feeling that we get when we do that for very long since most of us have not learned how to stay empty for very long. Children can be empty longer than adults since they do not have the experience or the constant feeling of "need to be doing something, somewhere for some reason" that adults have. It has to do with innocence, I think. There are some in this world (such as monks and nuns in contemplantive orders, Buddist monks, the Dalai Lama, etc) who can come to the 'place of enlightenment' much easier than most. If you really want to know more, I suggest you talk with a local Buddist monk. They seem to be the best at achieving this state of enlightenment.

Answer 4

For me it's actually gotten more frequent over time, to the point where I feel that way most of the time now. One way to describe it might be to remember the original "Matrix" movie at the very end, where Neo is just standing there surrounded by people, humans, and he's taking in the scene before he blasts off and you can tell he's not just seeing the individual people around him, but the whole big picture. He sees not just people walking around attending to their business, but the very workings of human society.

I think being enlightened is being able to detach yourself from your surroundings in order to see the bigger picture from a vantage point devoid of the biases inherent when we are immersed in our surroundings.

I will confess that I've been on a nootropic regimen for a while now; perhaps that has made it easier for me to attain this higher vantage point. In many cases I see not just the individual elements in a scenario but the whole scenario itself along with the interplay of elements within it. It's hard for me to describe this or even give a decent example, unfortunately. But I think I'm much more unbiased and insightful as a result.

Who knows...maybe the "enlightened" among us are the first transhumans, the beginning of the next step in human evolution. Or, maybe we're all just philosopher wanna-bes staring at our belly buttons.

Answer 5

Hello. Excellent excellent excellent question. I only have it every so often, and remember only getting it when I think about myself, as in 'what in God's name is this entity I am supposed to be...?'; if you think about it, almost a negative print of YOUR big question, the one about the inside of other people.
I do in fact lose the feeling, quite painfully, as you seem to describe, but I do not lose the realization that brought it forth. That stays, although I must admit that in memory it does not have the same strength and almost impermeability as it does in the moment it occurs first, full blast and naked, almost uncalled for and most certainly unexpected. In memory, it is unfortunately quite possible to breach its otherwise impenetrable confines with much more mundane and stuffy conclusions originating of the same mind (more or less the same mind at least, right...?).

But, nonetheless..................

Answer 6

No kidding here, in the mid 1980's (sober, no drugs etc) I was out staring at a full moon and for a moment I say, hard to describe, a grafting, or mapping of the atmosphere. It angled with the roundness of the earth. It lasted only for a moment in my physical vision. (like a huge continuing, ongoing tic-tac-toe board) It startled me, but I stood there for a while waiting for it to show itself to me again. I haven't seen it since in the physical, but I really feel it is something, just don't know what, or why I saw it. (!)

Answer 7

It's like.. for ten seconds everything was perfect. It's like, you're lying on your hammock under the trees, a light breeze is blowing, and the sun is filtering through the trees above. Yes, for that ten seconds everything is just right, and you're finally happy with the way things are, it's a feeling of total eternal peace, like everything just settled down.

Answer 8

That feeling you get is called vertigo. When you look up there is no "bottom" or any reference point to register it. Because the "sky" appears to be hemispherical, we develop the feeling of falling into a bottomless pit. It is much the same feeling you get when you look at a fast moving stream at you feet, say on a bridge.

Answer 9

It's called, being in tune with the source, a moment where time does not exist. a moment of realization of who we really are.

I AM

Answer 10

hints that bliss is available to us all at all times.
no such thing as ordinary.