What is it about thunderstorms that makes you feel "alive"?

Question

for lack of a better word.It's a feeling I can't describe.

Yeah, it's a great feeling. I love when it's a hot summer day and then it turns black. Exciting!

Colson! You're not dead after all!

Irena, I can relate!

Answer 1

I love thunderstorms. And for all the misery they bring, a good hurricane makes you feel more than alive. Scientifically I imagine it is the low barometric pressure and all the electricity in the storm that jazzes us up. Psychologically, it is just the POWER of Nature!

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most terrifying, life affirming experiences I have ever had. Man when it was over we who were not dead felt like we were vibrating with the life force. Also in shock too I later realized but that is another story...

Answer 2

In Louisiana in tornado alley we would get some pretty intense gully washers....in the afternoons the skies would turn dark, the wind would start tossing trees side to side as if they were grass. Hail would start falling and my 6 kids and I would rush to the front porch , on the farm and watch the wind swirl and throw barrels around as if they were packing popcorn. The lightening would pop and hit the tin roof and flow down the lightening rods to the ground and nearly deafen us all.
The cows would start running away the dogs would cower under our feet and we would breathe deep the ozone overwhelmingly freshening the air.

The children would wait for the lightening to be far off then they would play out in the rain and we would all laugh and feel so alert and free. Sometimes the lights would go out from a tree over the wires in the woods..and the kids would run and get one of my readers digests and we would sit down on the front porch and I would read the exciting short story to them until the lights would come back on.
Today with my children all grown and children of their own it tickles me to watch as my sons and daughter perform the same ritual with their own children..to jump up and run out on the porch to watch the glory of God in His spectacular light and sound show.

Answer 3

Where I live, dodging tornadoes makes me feel quite alive. But still, I do like the feeling of an oncoming storm, and it's that ozone and the feeling in the air that's fascinating to me. It's a display of the sheer power of creation.

Answer 4

The power, the sound, the sights. The wind blows through your hair, the rain hasn't started, but you can smell the clean air, knowing it will start soon. The thunder clashes waking your sense's. The lighting flashes, keeping your eyes moving. How can you not be alive.

Answer 5

It could be a fear thing. Probably the same thing that drives people to ride roller coasters all day long, or jump out of airplanes. Some people have are much more in touch with that part of themselves, and the degrees of it varies from person to person.

Just my .02...

Answer 6

I feel the same way, I love thunderstorms! It's the pure, raw energy of it. Everything on earth and everything that surrounds us is energy so we feed off of the energy in a storm. I think it is exhilarating!

Answer 7

Many of the above & the negative ions in the atmosphere, which are molecules that, when breathed, produce biochemical reactions that increase serotonin levels in our bodies, helping to alleviate depression, relieve stress, & boost energy.

Answer 8

Thunderstorms generate ozone and a lot of positive ions are charging the atmosphere you breathe. Its the newly-scrubbed clean smelling air that invigorates you.

Answer 9

It's the negative Ions in the air. I live in Niagara Falls and the affect is similar near the brink of the falls.

Answer 10

Ozone, and the fact that a thunderstorm is one of the most powerful things you'll ever see.

Great feeling, isn't it?