Capturing the Unforgettable Feeling

 The temperature was mid-seventies as I walked into the parking garage at my sister's apartment. I had just wrapped up a completely awesome evening with her, and a friend of ours spent at a concert by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I jumped inside, started the car and rolled down the window...thoughts of adrenaline pounding through my head as I hooked up my iPod to my car’s stereo system and piped up some tunes! Spinning down the garage floors as Midnight was well past and the night’s empty freeways awaited me, I subconsciously heard the echo of self-confidence and mental world domination as I roared out into the city streets with darkness and pulsating beats surrounding me, all without a care in the world for that one simple moment! The past few days had thankfully held nearly nothing but positive success, adrenaline rushing events, and astounding news. It was at this one of many moments I feel in life, that I ask myself this one question. I can capture visual moments on camera, and upload them at will, but how can I capture atmosphere or mental feelings to share with others?

I’ve often asked myself this question and hoped & pondered: When will technology develop far enough for both you and I to share our happy moments not in full, but a glimpse of what others feel, similar to a mobile photo upload? I would image these feelings come from an unfathomable large number of mixed emotions all triggered simultaneously. Emotions of freedom, adventure, happiness, positive feelings, and all feed to the human mind through different processes like sight, smell, taste. Most importantly through the retrieval of data in the mind’s memory storage banks, from the most recent past that all accumulate together to provide that one large smile that spreads across your face. It’s those thoughts that are recalled from the past and present that push forth those unexplainable feelings into perhaps one big pool of nerve signals. When will we one day be able to take that feeling of finishing the college exam, roaring down the interstate at 80 with the windows rolled down, the radio pounding and coffee in hand? Perhaps these feelings will never be uploadable, but hopefully one day we will be able to share these with all our friends, not just writing, but in some unknown electronic form.