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[mooro]

There is this wierd effect when a person is surrounded by thousands of others. The brain seems to scale up the enviroment to match the number of people present. For example I spend sometime working in football, and often find myself in empty stadia. They are tiny when empty! It is freaky, to then watch the stands fill up, and the stadium seem to grow. It would actually be an interesting experiment, to ask peeps to estimate the size of a place, then do it again when the place is full, as I am sure that the estimates would be bigger when the latter condition is met.

Anyway, I took my theory to Glastonbury this summer. Took the camper down to Devon/Cornwall for ten days, but decided to spen a night in Glastonbury.

Went to the site, and parked the camper next to the East car parks.

Started the walk of death. O.M.G. The place is tiny empty! The whole walk of death took no more than five minutes, from car parks to PGC. Spent a minute or so in the campervan field at the top of the hill of death, and it was at least ten times smaller than my brain had thought it was just 6 weeks earlier.

Walked around the site, including in the pyramid stage. I moonwalked that in tribute to Mj (;-)).

Made my way back out of PGC, and steadied myself for the H.O.D. Easy! A brisk pleasant jaunt up a small rise!!!

Seriously, I will never moan about walking round Glasto again. It's a nothing walk, the hill of death is all in the mind. Fight your brain's attempt to upgrade it from molehill to mountain, and you too can ascend without breathlessness.

Glasto is small, the H.O.D. does not exist!!!

[ukslim]

Fact: I never worked out where the H.O.D. is meant to be.

Is it that slope down to the ticket gate nearest the campervans?

[smash]

mooro, on Oct 5 2009, 09:59 AM, said:

There is this wierd effect when a person is surrounded by thousands of others. The brain seems to scale up the enviroment to match the number of people present. For example I spend sometime working in football, and often find myself in empty stadia. They are tiny when empty! It is freaky, to then watch the stands fill up, and the stadium seem to grow. It would actually be an interesting experiment, to ask peeps to estimate the size of a place, then do it again when the place is full, as I am sure that the estimates would be bigger when the latter condition is met.

Anyway, I took my theory to Glastonbury this summer. Took the camper down to Devon/Cornwall for ten days, but decided to spen a night in Glastonbury.

Went to the site, and parked the camper next to the East car parks.

Started the walk of death. O.M.G. The place is tiny empty! The whole walk of death took no more than five minutes, from car parks to PGC. Spent a minute or so in the campervan field at the top of the hill of death, and it was at least ten times smaller than my brain had thought it was just 6 weeks earlier.

Walked around the site, including in the pyramid stage. I moonwalked that in tribute to Mj (;-)).

Made my way back out of PGC, and steadied myself for the H.O.D. Easy! A brisk pleasant jaunt up a small rise!!!

Seriously, I will never moan about walking round Glasto again. It's a nothing walk, the hill of death is all in the mind. Fight your brain's attempt to upgrade it from molehill to mountain, and you too can ascend without breathlessness.

Glasto is small, the H.O.D. does not exist!!!

It really does exist, maybe its cause you weren't battered!!!!!?

[mynameisearl]

The past two years I have came in PGB and left via the same gate in 2008 and PGA this year.  I actually miss the HOD.