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Into the Mind of a Bird 1
#23620421 - 09/06/16 11:56 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Birds are much more intelligent than many realize. After tenting it out in the PNW woods for 5 months, I came to know the resident birds quite well. These fuckers stay up all night partying, I swear on it. We became partying friends; sometimes from 11pm till sunrise they'd be hanging outside the tent, knowing their master God lives just within those paper thin walls.
When I first pitched my tent out there, the birds were cautious and curious about me. On one of the first nights, they were poking and scratching at the tent all night long till around 4AM, just fucking with my fear, seeing how I reacted, trying to gauge who or what I was and what kind of thing I was.
Once they became comfortable and friendly with me, they would come hang out a few times a week, and all night long they would playfully and curiously poke and scratch at the tent and make the trippiest sounding clicking noises. I'm guessing theyre blue herrons or some other big bird because the sounds they made were coming from 2-3 feet off the ground.
One time I stood up on my knees to piss into the piss jug and one of those fuckers came right up to the screen of the window a few inches from my face and clicked right at me. Tripped me out.
Four months down the road I finally realize they've been trying to communicate with me (Who's the stupid one now). What happened was the bird slowly scratched the tent with its super sharp claw. Then I scratched the same spot where he did. Then he scratched another spot a foot away from the original spot, and I do the same. Then I scratch a new spot, and he follows me and scratches there too.
After that, the trippiest thing happened, all the birds surounding the tent started making the clicking noises. Like they were letting me know we were all there together as friends. Or they were communicating with eachother going "holy shit, is this guy for real??"
Dinosaur bird mind man, trippy stuff uck:
But that's not it. Whenever I would have racing thoughts and paranoia from weed or whatever, they would somehow know something was up and start agressively hitting the tent like they wanted me to stop. So to get them to stop I would have to silence my mind through meditation. This happened numerous times.
This wraps up my story, hope you enjoyed.
Edited by Hobozen (09/07/16 03:31 AM)
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Hobozen]
#23620436 - 09/07/16 12:02 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I constantly questioned why God created something that has diarrhea its whole life and made wretched noise constantly. But after a family made a nest outside my window I am amazed how cool wild birds are.
before I was going to shoot them. I knocked down their nest but they continued to perch there and just stare at me with horrible birdface sadness. I felt so guilty I put up a cigar box filled with cotton. They knocked out all the cotton and filled it with mud and straw and whatever. They love their new house. I miss them as they flew to south america. they'll be back come april. oh hurrrrry!
blue jays are annoying as fuck tho
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: sprinkles]
#23620451 - 09/07/16 12:08 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nature is on their side, what a life it would be to chill by a river all day fishing and eating, then going back to the woods at night to fuck with some acid head.
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Hobozen]
#23620456 - 09/07/16 12:11 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I heard Ravens are the smartest birds alive and I want to get a classic raven tattoo like the one Odin had
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Zombi3]
#23620483 - 09/07/16 12:25 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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what about them crows?
African grey parrots are smart birds. and annoying as hell. but what do you expect when you have a bird living in captivity and in the natural world they would forrage 16-18 hours a day. its cruel to me.
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Hobozen] 1
#23624959 - 09/08/16 07:34 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fantastic story, Hobozen! Birds are curious creatures. I definitely think they are more in tune with our states of mind than most people would believe. For instance, one time I was wandering around my city looking for crystals ( was a weird day ) and basically meditating while walking. I was near the entry ramp for the highway, on a plot of grass where no one really walks, which was adorned with a row of trees. My mind was very, very quiet.
As I neared one of those trees I mentioned, I kept my mind totally still and felt that wonderful, expansive lightness in my body which comes with a quiet mind. As I was looking for crystals, most of the time my eyes were on the ground, however when I got up to the tree I raised my eyes and noticed it was full of these tiny, brown birds!
Most of the time birds like these would fly away at the slightest hint of contact with a human, but here I was, less than three feet away from a small tree absolutely full of them, right at eye level. My mind was still totally silent, and get this, they were all staring straight at me. I felt an immediate connection with them, a visceral perception of our body heat or something strange like that, just their presence. Then I started thinkin' bout some shit and I'm pretty sure they flew away.
I can totally relate to and believe your connection with those herrons!
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>I felt an immediate connection with them, a visceral perception of our body heat or something strange like that, just their presence. Then I started thinkin' bout some shit and I'm pretty sure they flew away.
I forgot to mention this feeling I also got from their presence, it's like a thick air of silence that fills up your consciousness.
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Hobozen] 2
#23625579 - 09/08/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Neat story.
I have always felt that man has drastically underestimated the intelligence of the creatures surrounding him on this planet. I have no problem believing birds are as smart and hip as you describe. Animals deserve a lot more respect than they usually get.
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you understand this directly when you trip and observe and hear and feel them
it makes me sad to say and think about this but now many humans are So lost, isolated, and ...fked-up it is hard to contemplate it!
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Re: Into the Mind of a Bird [Re: Hobozen]
#23626863 - 09/08/16 07:03 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Hobozen said: it's like a thick air of silence that fills up your consciousness.
That is precisely the feeling, and a more astute description of it than I was capable of mustering in my post.
Zzripz, it is quite the predicament, is it not? It does, however, grant us one boon: the perfect place in which to practice compassion and virtuous bad-assery.
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