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Does anyone have any interesting memories of their childhood?

Please define interesting.

I have a memory that I wish I had but my mother tells me about:

When I was little under two years I met Dr. Masters of Masters & Johnson who was a famous sex psychologist of his day. He played with me for quite some time and my mother said he really liked me. She was introduced to him by an associate of hers, my mother having been in the field of psychotherapy for many years. Dr. Masters was said to have been a very interesting, gentle, and caring man. I wish I could remember that...

ljbouchard:

Interesting means of an important matter to those who are around you.

Sophist:

That must have been a great moment for you. For a minute, I thought you were talking about a member of Johnson & Johnson, who makes baby powder. Then, I realized you were talking about Masters and Johnson. I knew they were psychologists, but I know very little about them. Most of the time, it is possible for people to have a great memory in their life. The one you just described must have been a very special one in your life, Sophist. I am glad you had that opportunity.

Lets see, does the fact that I was part of the audience for a baseball game in The Natural count. I remember that because we were to meet up at an obscure factory, take a bus to the stadium and sit waiting for directions from the directors until midnight, then go home.

Wow, Lj!

I haven't seen the movie, "The Natural," but I've heard it is excellent. Did you meet Robert Redford?

Nope, I did not get to meet Robert Redford. It was fun however. I wish I was part of the group when they killed the lights but oh well.

One afternoon when I came to kindergarden around halloween time back in 1985, a large area rug in the front of the classroom where everyone sat had a new kind of decoration on it. No one knew what it was. The rug itself was dull yellow/orange shag color, but on the edge of it near the back was a red splotch. Everyone in class was scared of it, no one went near it. This lasted for two weeks until another student finally gathered up the courage to investigate it. Turns out it was nothing more than piece of red construction paper that somehow got glued to the rug.

I was mowing the grass at our house on the afternoon of June 16, 1991. It was hot and horribly muggy outside. About 1:30 in the afternoon, the sky off to the west began to turn this incredible purple/pinkish hue. I had never seen anything like this before (and have yet to see it again) in my life and I was extremely fascinated by it, much to the dismay of my dad who insisted that I continue mowing the grass.

At about 3pm, a severe thunderstorm passed just to the north of my house. The sky where I was was sky blue, but two miles north of me, golfball sized hail fell.

Wow, Scoots!

That must go to show you, little things mean a lot, and you can't judge a book by its cover. What does a severe thunderstorm have to do with it, though?

Everything. It was a bizzare afternoon, one that an aspie like me will not soon forget. Anyway, the purple/pink sky was some kind of precursor to the storm. I've asked various weather professionals I've happened upon over the years about that afternoon and about what kind of atmoshperic forces could casue the sky to change color like that. No one so far that I've meet has been able to answer that for me. Even google has been unable to provide me with answers.

The weather that afternoon was lead on the six pm news that evening. A storm moved through Green Bay and brought with it destructive winds.

Scoots:

I have one word for you.

Unbelievable!

I was just messing around in MS paint

RGB numbers for the (approximate) color of the sky I saw that afternoon based upon visual recall of the scenes I saw.

Red - 240
Green - 32
Blue - 188

EM spectrum effects Caused by the Sun. AKA the Arora Borealis however that is spelt. Google it. Its a documented fact. The fact it for-ran a storm is unusual, however.

The weirdest sky I ever remember seeing was approximately R218 G101 B74. It wasn't just a sunset... the whole sky was lit up like that one evening. Normally shadows are blue but that night everything was bathed in red. I think there might have been a storm afterwards but it was too long ago to remember.

I read up on the auroras and see that nitrogen glows pink when excited. However, one small problem. This was in the middle of the afternoon, not a cloud in the sky to be had, with the sun blazing overhead. And I observed this coming from the west, not the north.

If you could point me to a link that shows this in the afternoon, I'd appreciate it.

my opinion on the event (by no means scientific):

1. A cold front was moving through providing lift to initiate the thunderstorms
2. The atmosphere that afternoon probably had an incredible CAPE due to the high humidity and LI due to the intense heating going on. I would guess the CAPE was probably above 6000 J/kg and the LI was lower than -10.
3. A powerful capping inversion held the atmosphere in check until the front moved through breaking it.

I theroize that the intense convection being held back the capping inversion going on that afternoon might have caused the air to refract light in such a way due to differences in density that red light was being introduced along the horizion causing the purple/pink glow. The whole sky wasn't purple/pink, only about the lower 30 degrees of the atmosphere above the horizion.

One thing from my early childhood was when I was in elementary school (I believe I was in the First Grade) and this old comic, Steve Allen, came to my school and taped my class for his TV show. There are only two things I recall about Steve Allen's visit:

1. We were not supposed to tell our parents that Steve Allen was coming (I think the school was afraid that a crowd of parents would gather and disrupt everything; Steve Allen had a very popular TV show in the 50s and 60s)

2. Steve Allen sat on some girl's desk, stared her in the eye, and recited, "Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear, wasn't he?" This is really the only thing I remember him saying. I don't know why, but I guess to a child that would have been a peculiar thing for an adult to do. I don't even remember being introduced to Steve Allen, or even saying anything to him. The only memory I have of him is sitting on some girl's desk!! !

Many interesting things have happened in my life, I'm sure, but I decided to share something from when I was very little that I've never forgotten.