Into the Twilight Zone
As I drove home to Montreal last night, there was a moment when I felt I had entered into "The Twilight Zone".It was a dark overcast night, no stars, no moonlight. There was a thin fog. You really didn't experience while driving. The headlights did not diffuse in it, but you could see it in diffuse lights of distant farm houses.
At one point, while driving, everything was black, all I could see was the road in front of me and the lines on the road, beyond that I was just driving into darkness. At that moment, my mind thought, "Where am I going?" (a silly question since the 417 heads straight from Ottawa to Montreal - it changes into the 40 at the Quebec-Ontario border).
Sometimes, it does not take a lot to make one question where one is going - just darkness, the road and white lines.
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Comments
breal: you did? Wow! How cool is that? It is one of those irrational things that just creeps you out at the moment.
MOI: I find retreating into that mindless nothingness to be a defensive measure, in my case, of getting away from reality. Kind of like retreating until things blow over.
Took me several hours to recover after those trips. And here in Southern Norway it's pretty dark at 3:30 pm.
coffee fairy: have you ever gotten it too? That sensation where something you have done hundreds of times suddenly becomes surreal - perhaps for only a moment, perhaps for longer.
But the sun shall rise again. I think.
Always keep your camera handy and take pictures whenever you think it is worth it. That is what I am trying to do.