When I was around 6 years old, my neighbor set up his telescope and showed me the moon and stars and explained the immense vastness of space...it was overwhelmingly awe inspiring...been looking up ever since.
My dad did that for my brother and I. First he took us to the planetarium several times, then he got us binoculars and then he bought us a telescope ... I still have the telescope.
I bought a telescope a few years back and while messing with it, I managed to point my scope on Jupiter (didn't know it was Jupiter, just thought it was a really bright star). It actually brought tears to my eyes. Probably the most awe-inspiring moment of my life.
Samar Nadra - Maybe that moment of awe just happened when you were too young to remember, and that's why you also don't remember getting the telescope, just having it
I love space so much i remember the first time i went to a place where there was no light pollution and u can see billions of stars and i cried because of how beautiful it was
Thanks SciShow Psych. You have helped me turn one of my curiosities into one of my interests. I have not been able to do much with this information as of yet, but thanks to you I am much better informed in the ways of the mind. Even though the mind is a vast and curious thing nobody really understands, you capture what we do know well in short informative videos which I am sure help keep the viewers in the know as well :)
Especially the micropipettes that are strong enough to pick up specific macromolecules! I fangirled when I watched chromosomes getting extracted directly from a nucleus!
@@mashafalkov turns out the way you make them is by heating up a glass capillary and stretching it incredibly thin then snapping it at its narrowest point and you can get a tip that’s literally as small as chromosomes! Learnt that diy trick in biochemistry
I have chronic pain in all of my body. From my experience, the more interested, curious, or amazed I am at something, the more I'm distracted fro m my pain. If I'm watching a really good movie, or taking photos of nature (which I love) the less I am focused on my pain.
Positive awe: a Rush concert, especially my first Rush concert, especially the Neil Peart drum solo. Moving Pictures tour, I remember it to this day. Saw them three times total.
I saw an incredible sunrise recently. Filled my whole place with warm light when I opened the blinds. Watching the sky change colours, seeing the orange orb peeking over the treetops, and my place lit up like that in that golden glow took my breath away.
I felt awe many times, not just under the effects of DMT, but because in my language, there is no similar word, I couldn't tell others how/what I feel. Wish you all, lots of awe moments
I once saw the Central Washington University Wind Ensemble play a half hour symphony. There were so many unusual effects used to create so many different emotions, including awe. There was a point when the clarinets played just their barrels, and mimicked crying babies, and all those things left the audience so awestruck that half of us were laughing, and half were crying.
Sometimes I'll just be going through my day minding my own business and then glance up at the sky and all of a sudden it hits me that there's billions of light years out there and it's like my brain gets so overwhelmed that I'm just like ??? but it's an amazing feeling, too.
Driving out of the forest in Flagstaff and then the Grand Canyon opened up right before us. I learned what real awe was. I feel guilty now saying something is awesome because nothing has been even close to the feeling of awe at the Grand Canyon.
Maybe this is why people say psychedelics have changed their lives because it changes their ordinary surroundings to awe inspiring surroundings? Thoughts?
I never tried it, but I gues so (at least when it comes to artists and spiritual people). For me the word is full enough of things that make me awe, so I don't need psychodelics ;)
I experienced this probably on a daily basis. Usually when I look at art, read a story, or listen to music. But also when I go on night drives, observe my cat, or play one of my favorite games
I felt genuine awe when I watched that baby tardigrade hatch on microcosmos! the fact that I , not a scientist, does not own a microscope, can just sit and watch that on a peice of technology on a platform where we can all share anything we want with the entire world just idk how to explain it besides awe.
OK, this video provoked an unexpected emotional reaction in me. I experienced *two* category 5 hurricanes two weeks apart last September, and there was plenty of negative awe to go around.
I think appreciating everything on a high level, carpe diem style can leave one feeling in awe for every day's sunrise, and sunset, in awe of those around you and the value of their friendship, etc. I think social giving, especially when the need is great, is hugely empathy building and appreciation of everything building. :D
I'll never forget the first time I saw the Grand Canyon... It really is impossible to comprehend. I head Machu Picchu is even more awesome, which is why it's #1 on my bucket list. :)
"Like a redwood tree" yeah, having lived in Humboldt my whole life, I forget that redwoods are big...idk, they're just so normal to me, and other forests look so small!
I'm in awe whenever I see (on a video of course) a mushroom cloud. How is it possible that a relatively small bomb will destroy a city in second. Like BOOM. Gone.
The first time I remember feeling awe was when I was possibly 6 or so? I was on holiday in the country, it was the middle of the night and I needed to pee. On my trip I happened to glance out of the window, and that's when I saw it - The *galaxy.* I felt like I could see every star that existed with perfect clarity. Everything seemed to stop and I could see _everything_ all at once. I was absolutely terrified. It was too big! _Much_ too big! The enormity of it made me think about how tiny I was. I ran back to bed, trying not to think about it. Now of course, I'd love to see it again.
I guess one other way of explaining awe is when you subconsciously compare the subject to other things related to it. Like how a song in your phone pales in comparison to the sound and feel of a live orchestra. You recognize it as noteworthy, filling you with feel-good chemicals. The opposite can be said about feeling awe about something so ominous, like a large invading army marching your way. You admire the force, but also dread it as well.
I got a taste of the overview effect when I played an old pc game.. uh.. at the moment I can't recall it's name.. Hellwinder or something.. But it blew me away that you could fly out into the upper atmosphere and see space. I guess that filled me with a sense of awe.
The last time I was awestruck was at comic con when I saw a traditional Japanese style triptych painting of darth Vader fighting obi wan in the middle, a horde of stormtroopers on the right and luke, Han and leia escaping in the right. I don’t know what it was about it but the style it was done in was so beautiful lol
Two times when I felt awe: Night time in the desert deployed in the middle east. There were so many stars. You could see whole arms of the milky way with the naked eye. Even better with the night vision. Almost getting blown while deployed in the middle east. Nobody was killed thank god but it shook not only me but the HMMWV and the other marines in it.
In my experience negative awe has very similar effects as positive; as a passenger during a high speed car accident (bad drive I was with) as soon as the car started to spin time seemed to slow and my alertness to my surroundings intensified, I after spinning out and being t-boned by the vehicle in front of us we where sent in reverse across the grass median and came to a rest on the shoulder of the opposite lane of the highway. my first thought was I needed to get out of the car, however I stopped myself, as I did a semi passed within inches of my door, had I not been aware of our position I would have stepped right into the path of that truck.. so I believe awe may be more of a result of individual survival.
So awe = Mindblown? Happens to me few times when I watch crash course philosophy, seriously I wonder why they didn't thaught it at school (at least in where I live)
The last time I can remember being awestruck was going to a fancy university to play Pokemon Go for all the Pokestops. It looked very castle like. It was crazy to me that people live in a world like that. Full of fancy buildings and opportunities that I'll just never see. I remember feeling like I didn't belong there.
The only time I’ve ever experienced true awe (that I can remember) is seeing a total solar eclipse. Granted, most celestial events and bodies awe me, but not like seeing an eclipse. It was almost like it reassured me that astrophysics was what I truly wanted to study and do for the rest of my life. And yes, I cried.
I feel awe every time i am at sea, expecially in the twilight before dawn. Time stops (i have dischronometria so its even more intense) and im free. I want to live all of my life like that.
Out of all the SciShow Psych videos I've watched so far, I think this one shows the most explicitly how science is mostly made by and for English-speaking researchers. Based only on what's being exposed here, the so-called "flavors" of awe were defined according to the etymology of the word itself, even though further studies do not support the hypothesis that "positive" and "negative" awes are two categories of the same thing, but rather different emotions. I'd like to see research on this subject conducted in other socio-linguistic contexts to see how the emotion (or emotions) is called in the first place, and how it is categorized and analysed, without the assumption that all human groups experience "awe" in the same way, just as not every culture understands, say love, the same...
This video talks about awe in much the same I believe in God and creation. Providing me with more information that suggests there was an intelligent and crafty being that made these majestic, beautiful, and awe inspiring things.
early one morning, i drove thru oklahoma on a small road in a downpour. the wind and rain battered my tiny car. at one point i could go no faster than five miles per hour. i pulled off the road and stopped in front of an abandoned house when i could no longer see 12 inches beyond my windshield while moving. as i waited out the storm, i could see a large gray mass spinning horizontally in the field in front of me. it was so large that it seemed to churn slowly and i could see no end to it. it was the very first time i felt like the situation was beyond my ability to negotiate - i was ready to die that day
As an irreligious person, seeing the total eclipse in 2017 was the first time I understood what people must mean when they say they’ve had a religious experience.
