Pre-Sleep Thoughts: Take One

Like many people, or I assume like many people, I do my deepest thinking when I'm trying to fall asleep.  Which is what I had been trying to do for the past twenty minutes, yet here we are.

Since coming home from work I had been thinking about traveling.  I've been watching videos of someone on YouTube and their current trip to Hawaii which has made me think about my own past and hopefully future travels.  This led me to think about my trip to Washington DC two years ago which led me to think about when I went into the National Cathedral.  I almost didn't end up going to the cathedral because it was bloody cold after hoofing it around the Basin and the National Zoo in the morning and afternoon but it was a stop on our trolley tour and I figured if I don't check it out now I might never get the chance to.  This led me to think about that particular feeling you get when you enter churches.  Maybe it's just me but there's just a certain feeling about walking into a place that is deemed holy.  It's honestly really hard to describe.  I suppose it's like you're suddenly being held to certain standards.  For example, it's probably not the best idea to scream "GODDAMMIT" when you drop your camera on the ground.  Or maybe it's the idea that the whole formation of the place was brought on by years and years of passed down stories.  It could also be all the eyes from the statues, paintings, and tapestries just staring at you.  Is it the collective souls of those who have visited the very place as a last resort at a time in need?   Something lives in those walls that even a non-religious person like myself feels.