Your True
Tales
June 2003 –
Page 8
Celestial
Wonders
by Lucie C.
This a strange and interesting story that happened to me 20 years ago when I was 8. We had just come home from seeing Star Wars during its second appearance in the theatre, or it may have been The Empire Strikes Back. I think I may have been arguing with my older brother during the car ride back, and my parents were annoyed and just wanted to get home as soon as possible to send us to bed so they could have some peace.
When we got out of our car, my parents noticed something in the sky and were trying to figure out what it was. I wasn't really paying much attention because I was really tired and cranky, until my dad, with wonder in his voice, told me to look up at the sky. I was completely astonished. The crankiness vanished when I noticed what looked like a huge ball of gas billowing in the sky. The only way I can describe what this thing was doing is by comparing it to a a sped-up video clip of a flower blooming. The center of it seeming to explode with color, and this explosion would ripple in an irregular pattern to the edge of the mass and disappear at the edges to be replaced with more rippling bright colors, forming and spreading from the middle.
Later in life when I remembered it, I passed it off as the Northern Lights. But after seeing the Northern Lights four or five times since and seeing pictures, I realized they did not look at all like this. What I had seen was much more solid looking in appearance. Plus, it did not appear as trailing ribbons here and there, blinking in and out of existence - no part of it disappeared, it was a roundish ever-changing mass. It also had every color imaginable under the sun - yellow, green, red, purple, blue, orange. It looked like I was staring into a vortex, or a reverse black hole with computer-simulated color. Its movements were so dramatic they made me dizzy and at some point frightened, especially since it was so huge and hovering above our home.
We stood there looking at it, but it would not go away or diminish. It was there for so long that despite its weird, frightening and inexplicable appearance, we went inside and went to bed. I think my mom tried taking a picture of it, but nothing turned up if she did. This other time, about 10 years later, my dad was driving me back to our country house after picking me up from town, and I think we may have been having an argument. I was pissed off at him. It was around midnight and the air was quite cool since it was the sometime in the spring (we live in southern Ontario). He parked the pickup in the driveway, and when I got out, something seemed strange. I looked up at the sky and noticed Northern Lights flickering green; and these were not in ribbons, but blotches. As I continued to watch, this incredible phenomena gradually spread across the heavens until the ENTIRE NIGHT SKY LOOKED LIKE THE SURFACE OF WATER ON A RELATIVELY CALM SUNNY DAY - BUT GREEN. You could not see any stars, whereas seconds before the sky had been perfectly clear. You could tell that there was the black void of a cloudless night sky in the background, but this thick green haze was undulating over top of it. It made me feel like I had left reality. I mean, it's the ground that's supposed to be alive, not the sky! The sky was bright enough to light the ground and forest with its pale green hue. I felt a quick moment of dizziness, but otherwise felt excitement and a deep peace.
Goosebumps spread over my skin like wildfire, and there was incredible energy building inside of me. I think I may have said something in regards to this sight being impossible - like, "How can the whole sky look like that?" or "Why does it look like that?" Whatever I said, if I even said anything, my dad responded with the weirdest thing I ever heard him say. He said, "It's because of you. It's like that because of you." I said what do you mean, and he said "Because you're smart!" My dad does not believe in the supernatural. He even thinks using natural herbs for healing instead of conventional medicine is like going to a witchdoctor. He doesn't think anything weird happens when we die: "We go to a pool," he says. This is as profound and expansive as he gets in the whole "afterlife" department. To hear him say what he said that night is like hearing Jesus dictate the theory of relativity with a deep Texan accent. Anyway, to put that much importance on one puny human seems preposterous. Nonetheless, it did make me feel good, and like I was important, even if it's just in his mind.
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