Was It The Moon?
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In the wee hours of the morning, I awoke.
Lying in my bed, I rolled over to look out the window, trying to guess the time. The sky was light, but not fully, making me think it was before my routine 5a.m. wakeup time. I’m always amazed at how my body knows the time before my alarm. But today I didn’t set one. It was Sunday; I knew that much. It was early, I had already surmised. possibly in the four o’clock hour I guessed correctly. The sky was active with moving clouds. I sat up a bit to see what I thought was the moon staring down at me. It shone brightly with swirls of clouds moving away from it, but moving so fast in a swirling motion until the clouds seemed to evaporate completely revealing….nothing. No moon no sun… what the hell? I laid down once again, rubbing my eyes, thinking no, this can’t be real then sitting up again to see a similar action in the sky. What the hell was this? I was transfixed. My brain was telling me to get up and film it so I had evidence. But for whom? Why? I saw it happening right there and did not believe it myself. Plus, I felt paralyzed in the bed, legs unable to move now.
But then it happened again - swirls of clouds seemingly covering a bright orb that looked like the early morning moonrise, and when the swirls cleared, gone was the orb and the bright light focal point. What was this? I have never seen this before. I recalled there had been talk of a pink moon that should have shone the night before (as seen from North America). I am here in South America, so I wondered if this phenomenon could be related somehow. Do I tell someone? Will I read about it? Am I the only one who saw it? or was it just my eyes playing tricks on me?
I got up, used the bathroom and when I returned, I sat on the bed, searching the sky, and it was just blue and clear - no clouds, no moon just calm and blue.
I felt calm myself. If this had been something natural, then I was a witness. If it had been something more? Well, again, I was a witness. If it was just my imagination, well then I was pleased that it was active. But I know what I saw, and felt good lying in my bed, the sheets cool on my bare legs and the matress firm, but soft like lying in a cloud. I felt grateful for the four pillows surrounding my head and stretched out like a cat feeling the coziness of my surroundings and the lack of need to start my day.
It was Sunday, a good time for a lie-in and I took full advantage of enjoying the moment.