I usually only get that feeling of connectedness when I am out in nature. There is something magical about the sounds, the forms of the trees, fungus, animals, the smells. The harder you look the more complex and perfect it all is.
One event that happened to me about a year ago. I looked out the window of the house and could see the northern lights. Aimee and I went out to look and quickly realized that while there were normal northern lights to the north and northeast, a huge portion of the sky maybe 50% was covered by pale greenish grey northern lights. I have never quite seem them like this and they danced around making the most unusual shapes. A few times it even appeared as if there was a giant bird in the sky, a Pheonix, even Aimee saw it. I think I got a picture too but like many things it doesn't always translate the way it appears to the eye. Who knows, maybe people that live further north see stuff like this all the time It was the only time I have seen something like that though.
The one picture you had of the woman in the water looking at lights in the sky made me think of this.
Wow that was amazing experience you had there. I live in Norway and of course we get the northern lights too but mostly in the very north. I live in the west so we only get them on rare occaisions when it is very very cold.
I so understand you about feeling connected to the universe when you are out in the nature. In fact it has recently been scientifically proven that our bodies receive some kind of positive energy from trees and this can improve health enormously. Im with you in that one.
I actually was able to find some of the pictures. I was wrong. It wasn't 50% of the sky it was practically the entire sky! The phoenix didn't turn out well though. I think by the time we grabbed the camera the best of it had passed or maybe it just wasn't meant to be recorded? Who knows...
That is facing straight south. You can even see the tiny house at the bottom right.
Staight up, closest thing I could find to the Phoenix.
Lights looking East
Looking North
Oh my God, wow quite magical : )