Video game wise? Either when you die at the end of Fallout 3 or the Death of Andrew Ryan in BioShock. Oh, and the reveal of the final boss in Alan Wake. I was like....I have to fight THAT thing? In Real Life, probably the first time I looked over a mountain.

Getting the U.S.S. Defiant from Playmates in the mail in perfect condition---and at a decent price too.

hmmm...

Standing on the roof of my building with a few co-workers watching the smoke coming off the Pentagon the morning of 9/11/2001
The Viet Nam Wall
Snorkeling for the first time along Belize's Coral Reef.
Driving at over 200 MPH on a road clearly not built for that

I think just talking to people about our beliefs, and realizing how little we actually know, how complex the entire world is and how dynamic your belief system is.

My mind is unblowable.

The fact that after all these years, apparently nobody knows how to use spoiler tags.

Some of the historical sights in Britain. I know you Europeans take it for granted, but coming from a relatively young nation like the U.S., I saw a number of mind-blowing things. In the British Museum, the Babylonian statues that used to line the path to the palace and are something like 5000 years old but look as if they were carved yesterday, complete with cunieform chiseled onto their sides.

The town gate in Lincoln that was built by the Romans and still has pedestrians and cars passing through it; not a reconstruction or replica either.

The crypt at York Minster (cathedral), with its Roman mosaics of flowers that still have some color on them -- the cathedral was built on top of what used to be the Roman military headquarters for the region.

The view near Sleeping Bear Dunes in northern Michigan was almost surreal in its beauty too.

Subtract 90% of the homes, and add in hilly forested mountains as far as the eye can see, and that is the view I'm blessed to be able to view every single day of my life

Edit: Oooh, FROM a birds-eye view basically(since I live on top of the first mountain the chain)

Music does it all the time. All it takes is two seconds, the right turn in the melody or harmony, and I'm hooked into it completely.

Also there are some times in Anime. Clannad, which was filled with emotional scarring crying, still managed to pull one of the most mind blowing twists at the end. I never saw it coming, the identity of the strange girl in the strange world. Likewise the end of Kara no Kyoukai got me good, and since nobody here will ever watch it I doubt it's bad to spoil, but the whole series of movies you think Shiki is a murderer only to realize at the very end that she's never actually killed another person the whole time.

What else has blown my mind...well music like I said. The last bit of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbqbduJvuA&t=4m30s always get me, and I still STILL get chills when I hear the first two seconds of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Zp4cW8w8A.

Allen Vizzutti blows my mind. Not only does he hit incredibly high notes without even so much as flinching, he does http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FGpUIs3VvI&t=4m55s.

The series finale of Smallville just yesterday. The last episode before the double finale was awful, full of plot holes and stupid stuff, and there were a lot of things they had to put into the finale for proper closure of everything. But they pulled it off, and it was glorious!

I completely agree. I'm a big fan of history so seeing things that old was shocking when coming from a place as young as the US. The old things I've seen around here is in St. Augustine, FL. and that's from the 1700's :sadvaultboy:

Hey, in Malta we've got a whole temple tens of thousands of years old. B) (does this even warrant a cool smiley?)

And we've got other stuff which are some of the oldest/the oldest in the world too.

Not many things blow me away really. I have my mind blown everynow and again by one particular being, pretty awesome being, everything else just doesn't measure.

One thing that will come pretty close is when I meet that one gal, and we both know. That'll come close.

When I found out the yellow on popcorn isnt cheese, but its actually butter *gasp* something I used to think for much of my sheltered childhood.

Disney World. That place is [censored] magical.

Couldn't agree more. That airplane scene made me smile the most I have in a long time. They finally made flight look good too!

No you haven't, there's no building that is tens of thousand years old.

The Megalithic temples in Malta are 5500 years old, but that's only on a par with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar in Scotland.

:facepalm:

:rock:

Well DisneyLand for me actually...but eventually I'll go to DisneyWorld so not bothered :celebration:

Dead Money DLC for Fallout New Vegas raising the lvl cap by 5, then hearing about the level cap being raised by 5 with every DLC.

I'm sure there are lots of moments where my mind has been blown but the one I remember the most is the one that changed gaming for me: Blacksite.
That game made me realize I simply cannot play linear games anymore.
I just can't.
Too boring.
I need options.
This is the future of gaming, it's suppose to become more complex, not end up with me having to shoot the same 5000 enemies through corridors.
So yeah, Blacksite was a blessing and a curse, I hardly find any good games anymore but those I do decide to buy are actually good games which I don't regret buying.

Opening the cave door in FO3 for the first time. It was the first game I played on a high-def, flat screen, hdmi hooked-up tv.

It blows my mind how I told the stylist to put a yellow stripe in my hair, but she gave me a red one.

In classic Rogue_SoViEt fashion, I withheld my anger until I got in my car and promptly started punching my dashboard furiously. I've done that so many times there's imprints of my knuckles in the leather.

You didn't pay for it, did you? It wasn't what you wanted, after all.

I paid $14 for the haircut, but I didn't pay for the stripe. She almost cut my hair incorrectly as well. I had to tell her to turn the chair back around so I could see the mirror to make sure she did the right thing.