it didn't hit me until afterwards, when we were driving away how incomprehensible the whole experience was.
It was a warm bright sunny afternoon, and yet it was slowly getting cold and dim in a way that is hard to imagine without seeing it directly. It felt paradoxical.The sunlight did not feel warm and tingly on my skin like normal, it felt like a cold distant winter sun.
Everything just looked wrong in a really bizarre way. My brain was telling me this should not be happening but my eyes couldn't stop watching as it just happened anyways.
It got dimmer and dimmer and I felt like I was losing my vision, or wearing sunglasses that got darker and darker. like someone was dragging a "brightness slider" down.
The darkness came in and I saw the sunset all around the horizon. When I looked up, the sun was just gone, I looked at it with my bare eyes and saw nothing but a void with a white glow around it.
I stared at it and time seemed to stop.
It was dead silent.
I'm still not sure if everyone went quiet or if my brain just stopped processing noise. I made a few glances to look around at the horizon and see the sunset all around, like some sort of otherworldly night.
And then it was suddenly over and I looked around completely dumbfounded, trying to comprehend what I had just seen.
I cannot compare the experience to anything else in my life.
