189 | 040106

I was awake at around 0800 in the morning, and I looked eastward out my bedroom window. The very top edge of the rising sun was becoming visible, and for some reason I was able to see all of the sunspots on the surface. Taking advantage of this rare sight, I ran downstairs to grab my digital camera. When I returned to my room seconds later, the sun was already hovering well above the horizon, and I was actually able to see its slow rising motion. I only found that slightly odd. Suddenly, the sun accelerated across the sky, and instead of following its expected path, it curved southward and went back below the horizon in seconds. I concluded that this had something to do with the earth being seasonally tilted. I later saw on the news a real-time computer-generated animation displaying the sun rapidly orbiting Earth faster than once a second. It was also constantly changing orbital trajectory, going all over Earth. I would occasionally see the landscape outside fade to daylight and then immediately go back to darkness. Vocabulary lesson: A point in the sky that is exactly above a point on land is called the zenith. The reverse of the zenith, or the point on land exactly below a point in the sky, is called the nadir. The sun, moving wildly all around Earth, seemed to be carving something like a scorched trench constantly at its nadir. The computer generated map showed this scorched trench being drawn all over Earth, and it appeared to be several hundred miles wide. I was simply waiting in jittery fear for the shocking moment when the sun would sweep through our zenith and plow us down with an instantaneous massive scorched trench. Just then, I saw the computer-generated display show the sun pass over where I live. I felt nothing. I looked out at my back yard and saw the trench. It was only about one meter wide. I was relieved. I was eventually with a group of people my age. We were all drinking this orange colored soda, which happened to contain ingredients that make you high. We decided that we were on a mission to stop the sun from radically traversing all around Earth. We spent some time running around, occasionally crossing a scorched trench, which seemed like smooth wet sand. Apparently we succeeded somewhat, because I soon watched the sun slow back down to an orbit of several minutes instead of several seconds.