You missed a fantastic glass of wine imo.

Way back when, screaming my lungs out perfectly synchronised with the juddering, grinding wall of harmonic destruction coming from the death metal band I used to front, while the moshbeast thrashed and roared it's approval from a hundred throats.
Rapture.
Standing on top of Mt. Rinjani at dawn, and holding in my mind's eye a geological overlay spanning thousands of miles and millions of years.
Rapture.
Holding the swaddled little bundle of a 20 minute old child, gently rocking, singing and soothing away the tension of being squirted into the world.
Rapture.

Lucky partner!

A night under the stars looking at the wonders of the universe through my telescopes. Once, seeing a supernova that had exploded in another galaxy 27 million light years away! Realizing how distant these objects are and I'm seeing them

@LiterateHiker It is a beautiful feeling to get caught up and the warm bliss it brings you . With your way with words in describng things you should be writing a book ,especially of your hiking adventures

I can get lost in a good drama show/movie or a mystery or crime drama... something that keeps you on edge, keeps you guessing and wondering.

I can remember experiencing something like that from cuddling, fully clothed and non-sexual, with a woman I love.

I get a lot of joy from my partner’s orgasms. Don’t feel bad for enjoying yourself whether it’s sex or nature.

Your photos give me rapture!

i find rapture to be far to entangled and enmeshed with the xSTAIN ethic, so it is not a word i would ever use.

joy would be where i'd start. "rapture" makes me instantly puke a little in my mouth.

A well told story.
To see someone I admire succeed.
To help someone succeed.
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentation of their women.

Making real love to a woman I care for

reading can do that for me more than anything else. i’ve always felt that when i read a really good story, like i’m waking up from a dream. a “who am i again?” kind of feeling lol. it happens sometimes when i listen to music too, but that’s rarer. the last time i felt that way was with Hozier’s album “Wasteland Baby!” highly recommend it.

Seeing others really enjoying my cooking.

Skiing bottomless powder, alone in the steep woods. The right combination of notes sometimes. Some moments between first touch and orgasm.

Orgasm, both mine and my partner's.

Some pieces of classical music, such as Mx Bruch's, "Violin concerto Number One in G Minor" (particularly the rendition by violinist Schlomo Minsk with the cConductor Claudio Abaddocome music By Aaron Copland, etc. Also masterful writing which turns phrases beautifully and creates vivid and/or beautiful images. Add deeply poignant moments shared withpeople who matter to us..

I can certainly agree with the feelings of rapture that one receives being out in nature. (No radio, no TV, no “commercial annoyances of mankind - to interrupt that feeling...)

Same way with great sex... and especially the aftermath...