English to Romanian Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings

Am nevoie de ceva scurt, care să sune bine:). E vorba despre efectul deşertului asupra minţii.
Mă gândeam la " spaţiu de extindere a minţii" dar nu-mi place.

At first I was a kind of taken aback with the nothingness, but then it’s kind of liberating, because, you know, it leaves all this room in your head and everywhere else for other things.
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I call it ***my kind of self mind-expanding space***.
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***Mind-expanding***?
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It’s kind of almost like a drug, you know. People dream of the Sahara, and when they are in it, they say ‘it’s too hot’ and ‘we got stuck’, and all that. And then they go back home and then they start dreaming of it again, of coming back.

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