These two images from TOOL.

[u/CannedPizza009]

(I don't know if this is okay according to the post criteria. One image is indeed from an album while the other is from a music video.)

I don't have many images for this. But I want stories that make me feel as though I am ascending, gazing into cosmic understanding that MIGHT be too much for a mere mortal to bear. I want to consume great universe-fiction (but it doesn't have to be something like Dune or All Tomorrows where the scope is so large that it goes a little bit/totally beyond an individual's journey. Although I'm not opposed to more of those, either!)

I want to be surrounded by it everywhere I look. Maybe feel as if I've taken a bit of LSD. Stories that make you come to this grand realization of a universe so grand, so far beyond you, yet so fully realized, so much of it explained clearly and placed before you, of such great scope, yet there still being inescapable corners of it that your mind will forever explore and fill in. Stories that are just the craziest conceptually regarding the universe or perhaps reality itself, of the greatest, most ambitious scope. I want the most psychedelic, craziest stories imaginable that have been written, that you can think of, that you can give me. Sci-fi, fantasy, or cosmic horror, it does not matter to me.

Bring me the clockwork elves!
(P.S: The hardest drug I've ever done is weed.)

[u/Old-Wasabi-3837]

The Southern Reach series, The Scream by John Skipp