I wanna be in a cave soooo bad

you can trust me near a hole in the ground. i am normal and will not get stuck attempting to climb in

[get-underground]

Someone get me a ladder

[get-underground]

Panoramic mountain view so breathtaking it makes your dick hard

[get-underground]

Drunk AF let me INTO THE CAVES

[get-underground]

Sometimes when I haven't been in a cave in a long time I will sit in my closet wedged between the bookshelf and the wall with all the lights off. Not quite good enough but it's close

[ghouliens]

Ötzi the icemans' murderer could still be out there. We just don't know.

[get-underground]

Destined to die a premature death at the hands of a polar bear on the north coast of Baffin island

[get-underground]

I need to lick a stalagmite

[get-underground]

Beer is hitting me like a TRUCK making me yearn for the caves.....

[get-underground]

Wishing I was out in the wild rn.... Couldn't even feel the cold atp

[get-underground]

Beer is hitting me like a TRUCK making me yearn for the caves.....

[get-underground]

it is my destiny to die of exposure on the gorgeous slopes of quittinirpaaq national park and I'm being drawn there like a hamster to it's untimely fate

[blackbearmagic]

no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it’s been twelve years since it happened

it’s such an unreal experience

like

you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face

and

you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is

it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it’s there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing

But You Are Not Seeing Anything

Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no light to put an image on your retina.

But your brain just Fucking Assumes that because it knows where your hand is and what it is doing, clearly it can see it.

So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing.

Brain is like “there’s a hand there”

Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it”

Brain is like “nice”

but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best

Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[nikniknikin]

we once went spelunking, and a our guide said that once he was in a cave with a stream, so he could hear running water, and his brain was like ‘oh, running water? that means there must be Ducks out there’. and he saw like…low light shadows of ducks. that his brain just Put There.

[the-tabularium]

As a cave guide: we call that ‘cave blindness’! True darkness absolutely wigs your brain out - we’re such visual creatures that after a while our brain throws a hissy after not seeing anything. Sensory deprivation is a very real kind of torture. We have a huge, deep cave system at work and there are a lot of places where you’re hundreds of meters in solid rock in this tiny, dark, still space.

I like to turn my torch off, sit down with my back against the wall,  and wait to see how long it takes before I start seeing things or feeling like the ground is moving, or hearing things. Because I know I’m not - I’m in complete darkness, utter silence, sitting in rock that hasn’t moved in hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Proof that brains are Ridiculous and over-react to a lot of stuff!

[draconym]

During the most recent caving trip I went on, our little group took a break in a large chamber to sit down and turn off our head lamps and wait in silence until we started hallucinating. It only took a few minutes for most of us to start “seeing” lights, shadows, or one another. I like to imagine this was a pastime for paleolithic people as well.

[get-underground]

I forgot abt this account but I need to be. In a cave so so bad. Get me into a cave rn

[museum-of-artifacts]

The Utroba Cave, in Bulgaria, is a natural horizontal fissure in a rock that has been further cut and shaped by human hands more than 3000 years ago to resemble a womb. At midday, light seeps into the cave through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

[abandonedandurbex]

Cave full of cars in Wales, UK. [1080 x 1080]

[pukicho]

Humans are born wanderers. Don't tell me you don't wanna veer sharp left off this trail and get lost for 30 days. I fucking know you do, deep down. You love it.

[totalonlinechaosandsuffering-de]

[caveat-canine]

I am completely and utterly normal about rivers, creeks, lakes, forests, ponds, hills, mountains, and other natural landscapes (lying)