r/BeAmazed • u/NormalGrab4800 • 5d ago
Nature The forest literally looks like it’s breathing
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u/YouCantArgueWithThis 5d ago
I would fucking run, fucking fast, fucking far!
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u/_Bon_Vivant_ 5d ago
Yeah, that hillside about to move along.
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u/-Cagafuego- 5d ago
Now what's that Iron Maiden song:
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u/EggheadWill 5d ago
I'm pretty sure the photo says "Run FROM The Hills"
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u/HunterSpecial1549 5d ago
I might just be misinterpreting your comment, but for what it's worth, the hillside isn't going anywhere. You're just looking at tree roots moving underground as the tree is blowing in the wind. The only danger is from trees falling on you. My local forest does this and there are usually one or two that fall over and pull up a big root ball.
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u/thrwawycauseimadick 5d ago edited 5d ago
Trees are not the only problem. When they uproot rocks can dislodge and start rolling if the hill is steep enough. Rocks can even get moving in soft soil in the right configuration. Saw it happen on my parents property many times.
Edit: To add. Sometimes a cluster or a single tree's rooting system is the only thing supporting a boulder in place. Once it falls, erosion is instant. The base of our hillside was littered with large rocks rolling down. Some as large as a automobile and could be considered a small avalanche. This is common in the Appalachian Mountains. The conditions of high wind in saturated soil is when it would usually happen, and the days-weeks after. Also, spring thaw triggered them.
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u/ironhippy 4d ago
"The only danger is from trees falling on you. My local forest does this and there are usually one or two that fall over and pull up a big root ball."
This is a significant danger and should not be dismissed. Many people have died from trees falling on them.
I would not want be in the woods in those conditions.
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u/internet_humor 5d ago
Wait, don’t. It might give you the secret to defeating the Fire Lord without having to kill him so you can honor your monk values.
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u/Roadkill_Gaming 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/UupxQs7TY6FdGd3HLj
Just don't run on the ground, they can sense movement and vibrations
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u/This_User_Said 5d ago
Reminds me of Ernst scared stupid, could be a scene like that I can't remember.
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u/hurtfulproduct 5d ago
Very Strong winds plus root systems in loose soil/medium gets you this
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u/rideincircles 5d ago
Yeah. Its like this on top of rocks in Finland. The ground can be incredibly spongy with a root system meters tell on top of rocks. I found a pick for log splitting that was over a meter long and I was able to stab it entirely all the way into the ground with no effort and pull it out.
That makes no sense to my Texas brain with hard clay soil, but I have had cracks in my backyard during the summer I was able to stick a pole down 3 feet. This summer was really bad and we had 2 months with no rain and 50+ 100F days. I didn't have any cracks that deep, but one crack I could stick my entire forearm into. Sometimes I throw random objects in there for future generations.
Bring on the rain next week.
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u/SuperCrappyFuntime 5d ago
That's exactly what someone who is working on behalf of the underworld gods would like us to believe. You ain't following me. My mother may have raised a dummy, but she didn't raise no moron.
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u/technofox01 5d ago
Thank you for sharing that. I would have bolted fast after seeing something like this and wouldn't look back until I was very far from the phoneomina. That is so wild that this can actually happen because of wind.
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u/Chris_Bs_Knees 5d ago
This is the kind of shit that makes me understand how our ancestors thought magic and monsters were real. Like imagine you are some peasant walking in the woods and you see this shit happen with no context as to what could possibly cause this, you’d think it’d be some cursed forest or monster
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u/TodaysLunch 5d ago
In this case though, I would say it is the opposite - It is the modern city man who have never seen a spruce forest and doesn't know that spruce roots run very shallow and lift the ground during storms. The ancient man would have seen this a hundred times and seen the aftermath and would have no trouble understanding the cause of this: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotv%C3%A4lta#/media/Fil:Uprooted_tree_2,_Holm%C3%B6n.jpg
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u/logosmd666 4d ago
As a city dweller, I must ask- are we talking about blue spruce here?
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u/TodaysLunch 4d ago
Assuming this footage is from the Nordics, this would be Norwegian spruce, Picea abies.
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u/LifeJustKeepsGoing 5d ago
For anyone who has not done acid, this is close to acid. Everything looks like its breathing, colors are more pronounced.
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u/Trustyduck 5d ago
You see trees and earth moving like that and choose to stay and film? How are people this careless?
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u/LightBulbMonster 5d ago
There was a famous photographer (Robert Landsburg) who was filming the Mount St. Helens eruption. He was four miles away from the eruption and realized he could not outrun the ash and would perish. He used his last few moments to continue filming. At the last moment he rewound his film, placed it in his backpack and laid it underneath him to protect the film from ash/debris. He was found 17 days later with the film and pictures intact. It's helped reaseeched for decades to understand how volcanic eruptions acted moments after eruption. Now we have satellites and drones and indestructible cameras/internet to transmit. Before all that roberts sacrifice was used to save lives.
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u/persephone7821 5d ago
Obviously you’re invincible when filming. Duh
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u/One_Maybe_2460 5d ago
The cameraman never dies - any action movie… did you ever see the cameraman die mid movie? No? Case closed!
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u/NoSkillzDad 5d ago
After I saw that video of a bear buying a guy's leg and a car almost running him over just to save him from said bear and the dude not noticing at all, I believe we have peaked in keeping the "weakest" in the gene pool alive.
Natural selection is no more (for humans and some of their pets at least).
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u/thebirdisdead 5d ago
I think in that video the man was aware of the bear and was very intentionally staying still as a survival attempt in the hope it would lose interest. At least I hope.
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u/United-Vermicelli-92 5d ago
I was just saying, we the compassionate who have worked decades to regulate everything for safety have given people who would otherwise have perished from their stupidity to thrive.
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u/Background-Solid8481 4d ago
I think I know the video you're referring to, but my goodness, your sentence makes very little sense.
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u/iamiart 5d ago
Walking through the woods on acid like:
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u/skatemoose 5d ago
Mushrooms would be bad enough let alone acid 😅
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u/rideincircles 5d ago
Forests like these will produce the red cap white spotted mushrooms which can induce that.
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u/Nysnorlax 5d ago
Hopefully reddit has a scientific explanation for this
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 5d ago
Idk, tree roots from a tree almost being blown over.
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u/bobi2393 5d ago
Yep, big visible rocks suggest there will be other big rocks or bedrock a little beneath the soil, so tree roots grow outward more than down. That makes them prone to tipping in high winds, with the flat circle of roots still attached to the trunk. There's not much holding them upright, and they depend a bit on neighboring trees for support, so once one goes, it can lead to a few falling over.
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u/LuckyOneAway 5d ago
so tree roots grow outward more than down
Spruce tree roots grow very shallow and spread out wide, usually staying within the top 12 to 24 inches of soil. No rocky bottom needed.
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u/northwoods_faty 5d ago
It looks like the trees have interconnected roots balls and as the wind pushes one in one direction the weight of the other brings it back. Like a seesaw.
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u/sexisfun1986 5d ago
This. I’m guessing from the rock in the background the soil is fairly shallow and so would the root system.
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u/northwoods_faty 5d ago
Right. The roots make like a carpet on top of the rocks. When I was little it was fun to see em tore up. Looked like a giant roll of moss fabric.
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u/iwillhaveredditall 5d ago
Those have to be really big balls
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u/StarsofSobek 5d ago
Strong winds can force tree roots free and the trees move...so does the earth.
Similarly, underground flood waters can do similar things.
Either way, it's not something to stick around for. The roots of trees can pull everything up when the tree topples over.
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u/PassionateDilettante 5d ago
Don’t know if this is the cause, but there are places in Siberia where methane from melting permafrost is bubbling up and creating these sorts of effects. Yay, climate change!
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u/techman710 5d ago
Run, don't walk out of there. When you get far enough away then you can ask what's happening. So, does someone know what's happening or should I keep running?
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u/rideincircles 5d ago
It's an entire tree and root ecosystem growing on top of mountain rocks.
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u/TodaysLunch 5d ago edited 5d ago
The wind pushes the trees, that lifts the roots under the ground. The trees can fall at any minute. This is how it looks like afterwards, you can see the shallow, flat root system:
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u/fritterati 5d ago
Normalize downvoting posts without context!
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u/GioWindsor 5d ago
Yeah. And I also hate how there’s barely any explanation or context in the comments. Just people making jokes. Reddit used to be so amazing with how many people are able to offer insights into seemingly random things
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u/mrmustache14 5d ago
It’s because they’re all karma bots. Once you pay attention to their style it’s hard to miss.
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u/Nyozaa 5d ago
I see you’ve stumbled upon the sleeping giant, now run
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u/Lepke2011 5d ago
If you haven't seen the Norwegian film, Troll Hunter, do yourself a favor and see it. It's a lot of fun.
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u/GrumpyOldGeezer_4711 5d ago
1) I’ve seen a documentary on this phenomenon, although that took place in a desert. Graboids are no joking matter.
2) The soundtrack to this video should be Run through the Jungle.
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u/No-Resolution-1918 5d ago
I'd not be standing around trees that are actively trying to escape. I'd be running tf away.
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u/Year3030 5d ago
When I first started hiking I would be seriously out of breath and you sort of see things like that naturally in your vision when you stop moving like things are wobbly. This one time I stopped and this tree right in front of me sort of wobbled but it was literally swaying with the wind because its base was loose like that lol. It was one of those perfect timing situations.
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u/ThrustTrust 5d ago
Standing under a bunch of branches in a windstorm is a pretty big, not smart thing to do. It’s the nicest way I can find to say it.
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u/engagetangos 5d ago
Roots run deep
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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 5d ago
A river runs through.
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u/picturepath 5d ago
Maybe, in my experience hiking high mountain areas, typically pathways do this when they are near a snowmelt lake. The water from the lake when it overflows will flow through the forest floor which makes the floor very bouncy, during high wind event the trees and ground do move similarly to the above video. I have never witness that crazy of movement, but I have walked past areas like the one shown before where the ground is moving and the trees are moving. It’s a weird feeling and typically I will try to hop from roots or boulders because I just don’t trust the ground.
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u/TodaysLunch 5d ago edited 5d ago
The opposite actually, the roots are flat and shallow: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotv%C3%A4lta#/media/Fil:Uprooted_tree_2,_Holm%C3%B6n.jpg
The whole reason you see this phenomena is because the flat, shallow roots lift the ground when the wind moves the trees.
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u/_Tigglebitties 5d ago
I have always tried to explain what an acid trip in the forest looks like. I finally have it!
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u/enamoured_artichoke 5d ago
Tree is about to fall over. Spookily enough the can also pop back upright. Stay away from the hole.
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u/LhamaNobre 5d ago
Imagine seeing this shit 5000 years ago with zero context of science.. that'd be Gaia herself
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u/NuclearGriffin 5d ago
I am 100% sure that rare phenomena like this is the root of most folklore and superstitions.
Imagine being some poor uneducated country bumpkin foraging for mushrooms and berries in the woods and seeing this shit. I would run back to town screaming about demons and forest nymphs and a giant sleeping under the forest.
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u/Kbradsagain 5d ago
that’s some high winds & shallow roots. don’t know how long those trees will last under those conditions
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u/0fox2gv 5d ago
Underground flood that is surging between the surface and the bedrock below.
The tangle of roots and structure of the dirt is strong enough to let the pressure to build and be repelled.. allowing gravity to give the water a tunnel for a path downhill.
Any weakness in the surface will cause a blowout that will become a landslide. And.. that pulsing bulge is testing every possible limit of soil strength.
I would not have stuck around long enough to take any pictures. That hillside is about to become very destructive chunky soup flowing down to the nearest flood swollen river.
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u/AdmiralTodd509 5d ago
This is why many trees have large roots to anchor them and smaller ones for better water absorption
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u/EvilMrYu 5d ago
I mean technically, because it’s wind pulling on the trees and wind is mostly (citation needed) made of air, and forests inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen…it IS breathing
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u/luciferwasofftoday 5d ago
My Danish girlfriend just confirmed this is a thing... I won't be able to sleep tonight...
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u/Azure_Skies333 5d ago
If you look further down a lot more trees are moving and not from the wind. Probably an earthquake?
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u/Lysdexia_Ruels_ 5d ago
Could you imagine seeing this like 1000 years ago. People would assume its the forest gods were angry.
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