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Lovely description of the wind farm. Reminds me strongly of a charity walk I did as a teenager on a still warmish overcast day, and everything became very surreal, the landscape, people, light. As you say it's like you've just slipped out of the real world, into a novel or a painting. Intense. (So it's not just cycling.)
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Anyone else experience these?
Possibly a reaction to adrenalin and endorphins, helped along by a bit of alchohol?
First time I noticed it was riding home after an alleycat in winter. I was wrapped up perfectly, not so warm that I was sweaty, just perfectly snug and comfortable. Felt like I was in my bed, total relaxation yet I was still able to pedal and pay attention to traffic and stuff. I felt like I was the most comfortable and contented I’ve ever been.
Then yesterday I had another one, riding through a wind farm, which I’ve always thought had a bit of an other worldly feel to it. It’s really close to the suburbs of Glasgow, but feels totally disconnected. You can ride for hours and see nothing but the same fire road, trees and turbines scene so time seems to lose a bit of meaning. There’s a real juxtaposition of the machinery of the turbines and the wild, countryside setting.
Anyway, this hit me quite hard yesterday. I’d had a beer
withfor lunch and had done a fair bit of mileage by the time I got to the wind farm and it just felt like I’d slipped out of 6th May 2018 and into a Murikami novel or something.The sunglasses I was wearing have a bit of a sepia tone, all I could hear was the white noise of wind and turbine blades and occasionally the wind would blow across the mouth of the empty beer bottle I was carrying in the side pocket of my bag giving an oboe-esque tone. The sky was filled with perfect little white clouds. There was nobody around, there didn’t even seem to be any birds or insects.
It’s hard to define it but I just felt like, I dunno, something wasn’t quite right. Like I was in a copy of the real world, a very good copy but still a copy.
It took me a while to return to reality even once I got to the bit of the wind farm that’s a lot more used. I started seeing people but it confused me that none of them looked like they had the slightest comprehension of those things that make the windfarn feel like a strange place to me, they were just totally immersed in what their dog or child was doing.
Then a maintenance van clattered over a cattle grid nearby and just like that I was back in the 6th of May again.
So, anyone else ever feel like this or should I go see the doctor!