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Who likes the rain?

Intemporal_Reverie

Intemporal_Reverie

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I've always loved rainfall for as long as I can remember. I appreciate a good storm. I love it when the sky grows dark. I enjoy thunder and lightning. It's awesome.
 
I'm gonna consider myself the oddball of the people who respond to this thread based on what I say below:

Most of the time, I can't stand it because I tend to feel sleepy, somewhat more moody, and lazier when it's raining - also a pain to walk in it when going from class to class or something like that. Here's the weird part: I love to watch it from the inside of my house or at school, especially a downpour coupled with a thunderstorm and lightning display!

There you have it: me being quirky in that I like something but also dislike that something at the same time. :P
 
Storms: Yes. Constant, days-on-end, grey, foggy drizzle? No thank you.

Jacki, what you said actually makes perfect sense. I love to just sit on the porch (yes, here in the South, we still love our porches) and smell the ozone, the humidity, the sound. Although, every now and then, I have been known to dash out and stand in the downpour. :cool:
 
It's great unless you're going somewhere that it's not ok to be dripping wet. When I lived at the coast we had every fall three months period of constant stratosphere serenades, and trying to get anywhere without getting wet outside and sweaty beneath, it kind of lost it's appeal.
Rain and thunder are so calming to listen and watch from inside too.

I'm somewhat serious because I don't like it when people go out and dance in rain and thunder. Like it'd be disrespectful.
 
Back when I used to smoke, I found that the rain was yet another excuse to light-up. It was peaceful regardless. I also used to smoke when driving and when it rained I still did the same thing. I was able to pull it off provided the wind conditions were permissive, and the rainfall was not as heavy.

All in all, I can always find peace in a violent storm.
 
I love rainfall. I have an attic bedroom, and when it rains I enjoy listening to it hitting the windows. Sometimes I like to take a walk in the rain too; it relaxes me and I like the smell of humidity in the air. I'm also fascinated by thunderstorms, and as soon as the sky goes dark and I first hear thunder I'll watch the storm until it passes.

I don't actually remember this, but my parents have told me that, when I was 2, I ran out into the garden naked during a storm and went down the slide. :D
 
CJinherPJs said:
I love rainfall. I have an attic bedroom, and when it rains I enjoy listening to it hitting the windows. Sometimes I like to take a walk in the rain too; it relaxes me and I like the smell of humidity in the air. I'm also fascinated by thunderstorms, and as soon as the sky goes dark and I first hear thunder I'll watch the storm until it passes.

I don't actually remember this, but my parents have told me that, when I was 2, I ran out into the garden naked during a storm and went down the slide. :D
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Attic bedrooms are cool places. Kind of like a sanctuary, and I would surmise that the rain only serves to enhance this (sense of sanctuary) with respect to the attic bedroom.

Regarding the garden, and the slide, when you were 2yrs old in relation to the rain: A water slide. Nature's water park.
 
I love the rain. The smell the air gets right before and right after, the sound it makes when it hits the windows, the grey sky, it's not too bright outside, It's so soothing.
 
It's a situational thing with me. Rain in the early spring or autumn is great because it's generally just rain maybe accompanied by some wind.

Rain in the summer is awful because of all the stuff I hate that comes with it: the lightning and the thunder and the hail and the possibility of tornadoes. I don't need that.
 
I have a love-hate relationship with all sorts of things. Rain is on this list.

Rain brings fun wet weather that makes me feel badass when I walk in it without an umbrella ( I LOVE IT WHEN MY HAIR IS WET!), it clears the smog in Fresno, and it makes the world SMELL SO GOOD. The sound of rain falling just outside my bedroom window can lull me to sleep. Aftermath is a GORGEOUS clear view of the mountain range closeby where I live.

The only thing I hate is the mud. I literally have a special pair of shoes for rain, and they are my waterproof fancy hiking boots. lol
 
It has been a terrible humid and warm weather for days now, and it just got washed away with a hint of how thunder is going to be here in inland. Not as convincing and forcible as there were at the coast I used to live at, but I'm not complaining. All is fresh again.

My favorite memory about rain and thunder is from four years ago when I was hiking at southern Finnish archipelago on outer islands by the sea and had just climbed on a high rock where I stood for a while inhaling taut seawinds that had a scent of salt and fish in it, and all of a sudden there was heavy rain and stern thunder sweeping in the sky above me and I had no place to go there on a pale rock with no trees to hide underneath. Nor would I have wanted to do so. And it all still felt incredibly safe there.
 
I like the sound of a good down pour, or even a good drizzle. What I really love to listen to and watch is a good snow fall. Sounds like millions of crystal glasses pinging all at once. Each one slightly different in pitch. Whereas rain sounds like lots of thuds and splats with slight variations.
 
I love the sound of rain on the roof, it makes me feel safe and secure somehow. Listening to rain drumming on the roof tiles used to help me get to sleep when I was a boy. I also like storms, roiling black and grey clouds and thunder, and sometimes it's hard not to go outside and be part of it. I can imagine being an ancient and trying to gauge what angry god must be causing all of that. I also like how rain seems to slow the world down, for example shopping on a rainy day is less stressful because there are less people and noise to navigate through!
 
Intemporal_Reverie said:
I've always loved rainfall for as long as I can remember. I appreciate a good storm. I love it when the sky grows dark. I enjoy thunder and lightning. It's awesome.
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I do like rain, but I had a traumatising experience with it at school once when we were forced to do PE (football) then it started raining, really heavily, and I basically suffocated from the cold, and sort of collapsed in the mud, and struggled to get up, but I did, and I took shelter under the PE teacher and went indoors a different way.

If you want to relate to how I felt, it was EXACTLY like when you get into a really cold swimming pool for the first time, or when you have cold water splashed on you, that thing where you suddenly breathe inwards and can't breathe well, it was exactly like that, only for a prolonged period of time.

It was not only very embarrassing, but mentally and physically traumatising, and gave me an extreme phobia of doing PE in the rain, which is why I now break the rules and wear loads of layers and tracksuits in PE.

I do like rain, but personally I prefer the sun. In fact it's more the cold I hate, rain in warm weather is fine.
 
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