A Sensation
I went swimming yesterday, and I had a moment.When your goggles are on, there's a sensory deprivation element involved, because they'll inevitably fog over. You'll also be underwater part of the time, so your hearing is muted as well. You can't see or hear much, really, and it's quite enveloping in a very pleasant way.
For me, anyway.
After finishing my laps, I hopped up on the edge of the pool and took off my goggles, and I was immediately stunned by light and sound and colors, almost as if I hadn't been breathing and suddenly took a deep breath. It felt like a moment out of a movie, if they made movies about bad swimmers in their sixties (narrator: they don't).
Both beautiful and disorienting, in its own way.
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