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post 10000241779 07-03-2026, 02:06 AM
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What are some places you went that felt surreal?

Here were mine

1) I went to Loreto, Mexico with a latina girl I was dating at that time. We stayed at a resort and went to the beach in the middle of the night. It was nearly pitch black and the sky had so many stars like an unbelievable amount that it felt scary and my existence felt so small. Something about seeing so many bright stars in the sky that I had never seen like that before and it was creepy. I did her doggystyle and got a BJ on the beach under those stars but it was a scary experience.

2) I went to Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada with another girl I was dating. We made it just before the closing time so we were the only ones at the park. With everything all red sandstone and we were the only ones at the park and not seeing any other person for miles, I felt like we were in Mars. Felt like being in a whole different planet so that was a cool feeling I had never felt before.

There are more but those two come to my mind so far
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1) first time I went to Ellis Island and saw Statue of Liberty. Seemed smaller than I imagined.

2) first time I saw Sydney Harbour Bridge and the opera house

3) Walking though Red Square as an adult, going to the bolshoi theatre as an adult

4) swimming in the ocean at night

5) driving over the Brooklyn bridge

6) seeing the Wu Tang Clan IRL for the first time

7) walking though Central Park while an episode of Law & Order SVU was being filmed, saw Jerry Orbach before he dieded, closest I’ve felt to thinking this is a simulation

Edit: 2am broad daylight white nights in Sanct Peterborg, some northern lights too
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We flew into Kyrgyzstan late night/early morning. It was still dark so we couldn’t really see anything.

As we were unloading some equipment and doing some admin stuff, the sun began to come up.

We didn’t know it but we were in a valley surrounded by huge beautiful mountains on all sides. Once the sun started coming up and lighting them up, the scenery was absolutely captivating.


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Shakespear regional park walking through the ocean at night and seeing phosphorescence in the waves behind my foot steps.

Riverhead forest watching the milky way through a magnetic storm. The amount of shooting stars was insane, I did her doggystyle and got a BJ on the beach under those stars but it was a scary experience.
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra
1) first time I went to Ellis Island and saw Statue of Liberty. Seemed smaller than I imagined.

2) first time I saw Sydney Harbour Bridge and the opera house

3) Walking though Red Square as an adult, going to the bolshoi theatre as an adult

4) swimming in the ocean at night

5) driving over the Brooklyn bridge

6) seeing the Wu Tang Clan IRL for the first time

7) walking though Central Park while an episode of Law & Order SVU was being filmed, saw Jerry Orbach before he dieded, closest I’ve felt to thinking this is a simulation

Edit: 2am broad daylight white nights in Sanct Peterborg, some northern lights too
Yeah NYC is a surreal third world experience of poverty. I see why it’s on your list 3 times.
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Arriving in Antarctica and the first month after. Don't like flying so have only been on a few planes, so flying was scary enough. Let alone waking up one morning in oregon at 7am to catch my flight at 11am to fly to the bottom of the earth where I know no one and have no idea what to expect, but knowing I'm stuck there for a while regardless was nerve racking enough. Seeing the ocean frozen from the small windows on the c130 made everything seem real. Stepping off the plane and seeing nothing but white and foreign white mountains and a volcano with smoke coming out of it was insane. Getting to town and learning where anything was and settling in didn't feel like real life for at least a month. In fact it still doesn't.
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The first time I was in a bigger city felt fake. I had been to places like Chicago and similar.....for whatever reason the first time I went to downtown Boston things didn't feel real. Only time I ever felt it. Srs, vry srs.
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Originally Posted By SoutheastBeast1
Yeah NYC is a surreal third world experience of poverty. I see why it’s on your list 3 times.
Count again
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NYC

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The Grand Canyon

Joshua Tree felt like another planet
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Standing at the beach watching a hurricane arrive with a black sky and a bunch of seagulls flying against the wind and moving backwards
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Originally Posted By nothingshocking
The Grand Canyon

Joshua Tree felt like another planet
Grand Canyon is cool as fuk

+ Driving in Arizona to get from place to place has some crazy scenic views
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Artists point ant Yellowstone. I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon but this was probably close. It was just so vast and the air was clear, it was like it looked like almost 2D. I was with my gf at the time, there was a lot of people but we went back to the car where she jerked me off and fingered herself at the same time.

In a really isolated beach on the jungles of Costa Rica. I was with a local girl who showed me the spot at night. There were so many stars and you could see the depth of the Milky Way with your naked eye. I’ve never seen such a clear night sky before. We had just came from a shower and had a few drinks so we 69d on the beach and did a little night swim but I didn’t like being in the ocean at night. It creeped me out
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra
Count again
#1 (Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty), #5 (Brooklyn Bridge), and #7 (Central Park) are the only ones for sure in NYC

I have no idea where you saw the Wu Tang Clan live or where you swam in the ocean at night. Sydney Harbour bridge is in Australia and Red Square is in Russia

So unless you want to share where the two unknown locations were I counted right
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The grocery store (srs) lol


Also one time I went to a local beach and the sun and the tide was way out so it looked massive. I also think the beach had changed quite a bit since the last time I saw it.
That alone was crazy but then there was a couple people horseback riding. I felt so small.
I’ve also felt this way at a festival- the grounds were massive and no one was around - the sky was practically overwhelming me.
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When I watched Back to the Future for the first time . When it was over and I left the theatre I felt like I had been in a Time Machine . Everything felt weird AF fir some strange reason
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When I watched Back to the Future for the first time . When it was over and I left the theatre I felt like I had been in a Time Machine . Everything felt weird AF fir some strange reason
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Originally Posted By SoutheastBeast1
#1 (Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty), #5 (Brooklyn Bridge), and #7 (Central Park) are the only ones for sure in NYC

I have no idea where you saw the Wu Tang Clan live or where you swam in the ocean at night. Sydney Harbour bridge is in Australia and Red Square is in Russia

So unless you want to share where the two unknown locations were I counted right
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra
1) first time I went to Ellis Island and saw Statue of Liberty. Seemed smaller than I imagined.

2) first time I saw Sydney Harbour Bridge and the opera house

3) Walking though Red Square as an adult, going to the bolshoi theatre as an adult

4) swimming in the ocean at night

5) driving over the Brooklyn bridge

6) seeing the Wu Tang Clan IRL for the first time

7) walking though Central Park while an episode of Law & Order SVU was being filmed, saw Jerry Orbach before he dieded, closest I’ve felt to thinking this is a simulation

Edit: 2am broad daylight white nights in Sanct Peterborg, some northern lights too
Did you see the Bolshoi ballet?! I'm jelly if you did! I LOVE ballet.

Originally Posted By nevermadeit
Grand Canyon is cool as fuk

+ Driving in Arizona to get from place to place has some crazy scenic views
The Grand Canyon is amazing. It's so vast, it's crazy that it can take more than 4 hours to drive from the south rim to the north rim.

The Red Rocks in Arizona were beautiful! We drove from Phoenix to Sedona and it was a very scenic drive. The drive from Sedona to the Grand Canyon was not scenic once we hit Nevada. So much brown everywhere, no green at all.

Glacier National Park is amazingly beautiful. We saw some breathtaking views while hiking there and driving the going to the sun road. When we were on our way in it was around 5pm and the way the sun was hitting everything was just gorgeous. Everywhere you looked in Glacier was like a beautiful photograph.

Alaska and the Yukon. The air in Alaska is so crisp and clear it's amazing. Stunning views everywhere when going from Skagway up into the Yukon.
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Originally Posted By nothingshocking
The Grand Canyon

Joshua Tree felt like another planet
Grand Canyon for sure. I did a ton of hiking up in the Tetons and the scenery was unbelievably beautiful. Sierra Nevadas were also dreamy.
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Originally Posted By Legz422
Did you see the Bolshoi ballet?! I'm jelly if you did! I LOVE ballet.

Yeah my mum dragged me there all the time

Then I didn’t go for ages then went with the wife
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Rural South Carolina.

Wilted cotton fields
Crumbling infrastructure
Abandoned buildings everywhere
Abject poverty among those left

Felt like a region that hadn’t progressed in over a century.
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra
Yeah my mum dragged me there all the time

Then I didn’t go for ages then went with the wife
Ahhhh I bet it was fabulous! Bf took me to see the NYC ballet for my bday. I'd dreamed of that since I was 10 years old. Lincoln Center and seeing the ballet was amazing. It was so beautiful. When I was in my major ballet phase between 10-14 I watched and read about Russian ballet a lot.
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The Dali museum
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The Dali museum
Negged for attempting to appear 'cultured' to up your subscriber base you dumb meathead.
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