Close Encounters with Mashed Potatoes
A precise external marker for the intensity I'm feeling within
Intensity increasing.
Is it Pluto transiting my Sun? Is it that we are hours away from the Total Lunar Eclipse (blood moon)? I try to find external markers for what I’m feeling. I always have. We seek this “Are you feeling what I’m feeling?” reflection from somewhere. We gave up early on getting it from the other humans in our lives. We’d prefer not to upset the people we care about and who care about us.
As an experiencer, and knowing other experiencers who responded similarly, this movie struck me to the core back then. I was an adolescent at the time.
How do they know about these things?
Good god, it’s on the movie screen in front of me!
So other people know this stuff?
It was my first awareness that I wasn’t alone with this phenomenon. And that was huge.
I share this clip because it feels like a review of what I’ve been feeling the past few days. It’s tough to explain it to our loved ones. Nothing has changed there. But for some of us, it’s getting more real than real now.