Interesting story. I've had slightly similar experiences just from camping. Every thanksgiving me and some of my family/friends go high into the mountains in British Columbia (where I live) and spend about 14 days there. I normally just bring a back pack and sleep on the bench seat in my truck.

After 2 or 3 days I'm always saying things like "Man this sucks, I wish I had a nice bed to sleep on" or really missing video games and tv. But then about 5 days or so of constantly fishing, hiking and hunting small game for dinners I start to forget that stuff even exists. It just fades out of my mind completely without realizing it.

On the very last day, when I realize that I'm going home my regular mentality kind of kicks in again and I look forward to having a hot shower and sleeping on a big mattress again. But then I get home and it's like..... I want to just go back to the woods. I sit down to play Xbox or watch a movie and I'm like wow.... this is really stupid. I can't even be entertained by it.

Then I think deeper. People literally spend their entire lives just sitting on their ass, soaking in all this crap without even taking a glimpse at life.



I don't have any profound moments with "God" or anything while I'm in the woods. Just a simple realization of how messed up our reality really is.

i never reached your state of mind but i did spend 31 days in the ozarks - 16 miles outside salem - no communication, no transportation and no protection - quite stupid really - had no idea just how really stupid i was - didn't know anything really -

but i worked every single day - clearing land, planting a garden - filling in deep logging holes so a vehicle traverse - i did the hauling of dirt in a plastic tub pulled by my leather belt - did a pretty good job -

the closest water was a mile away over rugged terrain -

had to wash my body every single day from the dust - and my clothes had to be washed frequently which was the worst of it all - a washing machine is probably the only modern convenience i can hardly live without!

i just didn't have your experience - but i did learn a great deal - i'll never do that again unless i have a rifle!

Lucky you didn't have any food, the Bears, skunks, raccoons would be making a house call, and no insects? what kind of Forrest is it that doesn't mosquito's? The mosquitoes would be sucking you dry, not to mention the ticks and other insects.
When I camped out in the backyard the raccoons would be coming by I could hear them breathing I'd tell them go away

spent only 5 days out in the wilderness with the wifey. Spent the entire time fishing and hiking. I didn't miss my phone at all, didn't miss the TV at all. I could actually see the stars in the sky (where I live you are lucky to see a few with all the light pollution). Just looking in the sky at night for hours is amazing... although we saw some freaky stuff in the sky (stars moving quickly across the sky and making 90 degree directional changes, not satellites..)

Walking through the woods and listening to life, smelling nature, it is really enough for me to be happy. It's a shame I cannot do it more often.

A good topic- we all need to get away as Christ said to His disciples, but a bit presumptuous to think you are in the same league as Jesus.
He was temped 40 days by the devil to not give Himself up for the sins of the world- you took time to chill out but have no sacrifice to atone for your original sin except what God has supplied through Himself..
If you realise that Christ died for you personally that you might not be a swayed by this crazy world your isolation will be profitable. If you then become familiar with His word of spirit and life as He attests then you are on the Way.
And that is what you appear to be seeking but, like in the Matrix, there is an enemy of your soul trying to thwart God's grace toward you.
There is the blue pill
And there is the red pill
But only the Gos Pill will awaken and reconcile you to God
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