Bumble Bee Experience

[Selski]

This is a bit of an experiment.  

Let's imagine for a moment that we are a humble bumble bee.  A tiny wee thing in the grand scheme of things.

OK.  We bumble into a centrally-heated room by mistake.

We fly around for a bit enjoying and wondering where we are (let's assume we have some level of consciousness - perhaps not a human level, but at least a humble bumble bee level).

We then want to get out, because it's too hot and we keep banging into barriers (walls, ceilings, floors).

We see the light.  We go for it.  We hit the pane of glass.

Again and again and again.

We get tired.  We settle on a window ledge.

We buzz around and then suddenly something happens...

(Switch to being human...)

The human (i.e. me) has discovered the humble bumble bee in the office... somewhat stuck.

I get an empty and clean cup and put it over the bee.  The bee goes bonkers buzzing away.  I then put a beer mat underneath the cup so that I can safely carry the bee to the outside.  Once outside, I put the cup on the floor, tip it up and let the bee free.

OK.  No worries there.

Let's go back to the bee.

Let's assume it has some kind of consciousness and memory and so on.

It buzzes back home.  What does it tell its family?

"You gotta here this.  I was doing my own thang, I got really hot and bothered, couldn't find my way out.

I meditated for a bit.  Then I was suddenly plunged into darkness (the cup).  I would describe it as 3D blackness.  The vibrations were loud and scary.  (The bee's buzzing would have echoed phenomenally in that cup.)

I felt myself being touched by something (a neg?) (the beer mat).  And then I was moved and then suddenly back on real land again.

What an experience for the bee!!!!

Hmmm.

I admit that a bee is a small thing compared to us, but I am open-minded that there might be something hugely massive compared to us putting us in "cups" and moving us to safety... ?

Sarah

(I'm not insinuating - just pondering.  I react against the idea that humans are superior, and I like the idea we may end up being so insignificant as to "not matter" to something/someone huge.  I kind of like that theory.  It appeals to me greatly.  Kind of knocks everything out of you and makes you small, humble and bee-like.)



Sarah

[Doch]

I had one of those experiences a few months back when was hiking in a National Park in New Zealand. It was just a two and a half hour walk up a mountain, but when you get to the top you are confronted by an amazing, massive glacier, which just stretches and stretches. To glance across that vista, at that moment, made me feel absurdly unimportant.

[MisterJingo]

This will sound absolutely crazy, but it was strange and it reminded me of your post which I had read the day before.
I currently live in an apartment inside an old converted house. My living room has a 1940's style large bay window, and only one of its small side windows can be opened. This hasn't been opened for months.
Friday evening my partner and I were sitting watching TV, when we suddenly heard a buzzing noise and saw a giant bee inside the room against the curtains. It didn't come from outside the window (which hadn't been opened) as it was on the wrong side of the net curtains. The door had been closed for hours, and it hadn't been in the room before else we'd of heard it flying around.
Wondering where the bee had come from, I got a jug, captured it in it and put it outside - watching it fly off.
When I got back to the living room I looked all over to find where the bee could of come from and still have no clue.
Anyway. Twenty minutes later we hear a buzzing again and once again see a large bee against the window. I once again take it outside, still having no clue where it came from.
I got up at around 7am Saturday morning, the first thing I hear on walking into the living room was a giant bee against the window again(!) .
I'm usually too skeptical to see meanings in things, but this had me wondering .

There has been no more bees since then, but I am still scratching my head to how they could all get in without us noticing.