Sometimes, isn't the answer just as cool as the mystery it caused?

Asked by Dutchess_III (47052

) August 29th, 2012

The sun is going down. I walked in off my back deck…and there was a rainbow on my kitchen wall! It was so cool, and so unexplained. I grabbed my cell phone and snapped a couple of pictures of it. But, of course, I thought “I HAVE to find out what is causing that!”

We have a west facing window in the kitchen. I have a small, very old bottle sitting on the windowsill that we had found out at The Land. It’s stamped into the glass that it’s a preventative for “Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea,” but didn’t say anything about preventing rainbows so I assumed that the bottle was causing rainbows (sounds logical to me.) So I moved it…and the rainbow stayed!

Then I thought the sun had to be shining just right through the round glass light fixture above the sink and in front of the window. I held a piece of paper over it. The rainbow stayed! ….Ooops! That wasn’t a rainbow. That was the space shuttle ‘Endeavor.’ Sorry ‘bout that

So watched it for a minute, scratching my head, then took a minute to send the pics to my home email and to make sure they got there. When I got back, a couple minutes later…. the rainbow was on the same wall as the window was set in to!!…...... ”WOW, man! How is that happening man?!!! Dude!” So I went to grab my phone again and when I got back….there was rainbow all over my furniture! It was crazy, beautiful, and cool! WHAT a beautiful, mysterious mess!!

….Well, Ok. I guess I have to back up now. To be honest, when I saw it on the same wall as the window, I immediately spun around to see what was opposite of that west wall (I AM NOT GULLIBLE!!!) and promptly got lasered in the eyes, BAM!!!!, by the cause of the magic… I had slipped a DVD into a pocket in the front of my purse to take to work, and it was sitting at just the right angle to catch the light and refract it all over my kitchen.

It was fun and happy while it lasted, although the bad part was I was temporarily blinded fer a while, but the cause itself was pretty darn cool too. You know I’m going to be setting CD’s and DVD’s all over the kitchen at sunset just to see what happens. My husband (who is out of town and didn’t get to see it, and I haven’t told him about it) is going to be asking, once again, “WHAT are you doing THIS time, Val???” At that point I’ll make him read this. :)

Life is good and I am not gullible. : }~

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I have a water filter container that sits near a window in the kitchen and reflects a rainbow. I kept wondering why did it seem to shake sometimes if I wasn’t even touching it. Then I figured out that walking near it caused the ground to shake a little and caused the container to shake and the water slightly vibrate. So that was how I got my shaky rainbow.Needless to say I did a bunch of stupid videos with me experimenting with the rainbow. My daughter thinks I’m goofy for it. LOL

Pandora (32385

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This is not a true story. So, since you are not gullible, you will recognize instantly that I am making this up. Or am I?

In any case, I don’t know if you know about the rainbow gathering, but there is such a thing. It’s kind of cool, too, I gather, although I have never been. Lot’s of hippy type young people. They feed people for free, and clothing is optional and there is probably a lot of sex and drugs. At least, I hope so, because what is the point of wandering around naked if there isn’t going to be a lot of sex? But I’m probably an antediluvian MCP type male, even if I am a feminist or was one. It’s just that when you get to be my age… but I digress.

The thing most people wonder is why they call it a rainbow gathering, and if you ask them officially, you’ll get an official kind of answer, and to tell the truth, I don’t even know what that answer is. But I do know it isn’t the real answer. And so, remember, I told you this story is a lie, and I have to tell you that because I can’t tell you the real answer and have you believing it is the real answer when in fact it is a made up answer, even if it is the truth.

Rainbows, as you have so recently experienced, are rather peripatetic creatures. Now you’re going to say, “Wundy, rainbows are not creatures at all. They are the diffraction of light through a lens,” and I will happily agree with you if that is what makes you happy.

But what makes me happy is the knowledge that rainbows are peripatetic creatures. Not only that, but they can transubstantiate at will. And they are great perigrinators, which I dont’ think is a word and even if it is a word, I don’t think I spelled it right, but it is a word now, since I used it, even if you don’t find it in the dictionary. Don’t look.

What I’m trying to say is that rainbows love to travel. As you yourself recently experienced. And rainbows are very clever. They will show up anywhere something like a pyramid or a crystal or a DVD or a bottle or even a spray of water gives them cover. And thus we believe these things cause rainbows, but in fact, rainbows are independent creatures who hide their tracks very well.

What you experienced was a gathering of rainbows. Or a rainbow gathering. In your own home.

What this means is that you will soon be innundated with hippies who will eat all your food and have sex in the rhododendrons.

You do have rhododendrons, don’t you?

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@Dutchess_III , @wundayatta is right. Those rainbows can be very elusive and then randomly appear just about anywhere. I’ve seen rainbows on foggy days to the left and right of me and it’s so beautiful (even if it is a dvd causing it and not raindrops in the air.) I couldn’t help but think of this guy here when you mentioned rainbows. He says rainbows have “nothing to hide”!

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Sometimes, just reading the details is way cooler than trying to answer the question. Thanks, that was fun. :)

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ROFLLLL!! Ya’ll on drugs!! LOVE your answers! ”... there is probably a lot of sex and drugs. At least, I hope so, because what is the point of wandering around naked if there isn’t going to be a lot of sex?” Indubitably Wundy!! :) :). I am RESISTING reaching for the dictionary! The words were perfect, no matter what! :)

I shall get right on the rhodendrens because I don’t have any right now. What do hippy rainbows eat? I have to stock up. I’m thinking…mushrooms. Lots n lots of mushrooms.

@glacial Thanks for reading the whole thing! :)

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—@wundayatta The “rainbow” in the Rainbow Gathering refers to the Rainbow Tribe supposedly prophesied in a Native American tradition, that is comprised of individuals of every color from every part of the world.

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