Eclipse caught me off guard today.
(TellUpgoat)I knew it was coming, and i commented on this thread :
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=6614436ea811ebut was planning on making a thread sharing this experience that completely caught me by surprise and is the closest thing to a spiritual experience i have ever had. I live dead center of the path and i didnt think it was going to be a big deal before it happened. After seeing what i saw and feeling what i felt, it was easily one of the greatest experiences of my life and it completely caught me off guard. We homeschool our kids and we were just out in the yard hanging out and watching it begin through the glasses. But man, when totality hit, i tried to record it, and after about 20 seconds i just put my phone down because there was something just so captivating about the whole thing, and my inner voice said just said “no, just soak this up” and im glad i did. At the center if it you could see a twilight area 360deg around you. The planets were in view as well during all of this. You will never ever see a picture that shows you what i saw. The moon was surrounded by an indescribable bluish glow that felt electric and almost divine with the suns glow from behind. The solar flares that were visible were almost like looking at a super high res image on a computer screen. It was just surreal. Once the sun came back into view, the very first sliver made it seem like you were in a room with a somewhat dim lighbulb over in the corner. That then got progressively brighter and then all seemed normal. I never in a million years expected to feel the way i felt during and after that. Ive been near eclipses before with some varying degrees of darkness but never like this. Cool stuff. Really cool stuff.