It’s an amazing experience coming inside on a bright, cold, sunny day. Outside, everything is monochromatic, white on white, snow covering the ground, salt covering cars. It all feels alive, somehow more real. The cold bites into you, the sunshine makes you squint. You feel everything.
But then coming back into the office, before your eyes can adjust, everything is off. All the colours are muted, like a sepia photograph, or a TV that’s about to die. The prickly sensation in your limbs starts to disappear, you feel nothing again.
For a few moments it’s not real, at least not like it was outside. Slowly, it all dissipates, and it’s back to “real life”.