I've been thinking about the times in my life when I felt the most alive/present/contented, and most of them have a feeling in common that I don't have a word for. It's like the opposite of the sort of numinous "I'm so small in the grand scheme of things" feeling. Like the world is not only metaphorically smaller but physically smaller. When I've felt this way in the past, I was more inclined to use terms like "nearby" or "right over there" to describe things that were quite far away...
