Poll: Have You Ever Spent The Night Outside, wide awake all night with nothing but your beliefs Options

i did this summer - and it was spectacular for opening the mind

Yes, many times, alone or with others, but always by the sea and never in the wood.
I realised this only after reading this post. Even if there was a wood nearby, during the night, I was always at the beach and in the sea (I like swimming at night). I think that I want to try spend the night in the wood for a change I think that it will have totally different feeling.

This post has been edited by alia: Apr 13 2007, 02:42 PM

During the rainy season in my old home; I used to leave the trail and run as fast I could til I found a dry spot beneath a pine and lie down shut my eyes and listen to the rain, some days it was a song to my spirit but more often than not every rain drop hitting a leaf became a footsep of some unseen threat and i would fight and fight then finally open my eyes ...it was a cheap thrill, yet a good exercise in fear. Eventually I got lost in the wood one day and attempted to "conquer" the fear however as it got dark and impossible to navigate. I eventually laid down and basically gave up and surrendered myself to the wood. As I lay there at the base of a tree I heard something moving towards me ((this is bear country)) and this "whatever it was" coyote/deer/bear/ moved about 20 feet from me and took a long and loud piss and shambled off, as I laid there intently praying to the universe for deliverence I heard a horn in the background and after an hour of crawling and flashing my camera in some odd code, met some friends from out of town who happened to drive a 150 miles to my house that day and found I was missing and went a looking. I failed in facing the challenge but I did experience some amazing synchronicity.