orbiting the sun

To orbit the sun refers to leaving one's body. If you see or read something so crazy, so out of this world, so outer-space, that there is no earthly way to describe it. So, an individual orbits the sun. The individual metaphorically transitions into a cosmic state of orbit around the sun because there is a void of all reality. There is a void of natural human understanding and an earthly reaction simply does not do justice for the situation.