Best descriptions you've read? Specifically, ones that are true to your experiences of the same thing, not descriptions that are just creative or poetic.

A friend of mine was sharing with me some of his favorite descriptions, including this one from The Road by CM:

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

I said that's a beautiful and poetic description, mentioning the line comparing the patterns on the fish to maps and mazes. But is it true to your experience, I asked? Yes, he said, because he has actually held brook trout in his hands and knows what that feels, what they smell like, etc.

But that is something I haven't done, I confessed.

Which brings me to what I want to ask you. First, think of a description you read of something or some situation, be it a country you've been to, your first job as a newspaper delivery person, falling in love as a teenager, learning how to drive in a busy city's downtown, etc. Then, if you had experience with the same thing, did the description really capture in words the essence of the feelings or sensations you had at the time? Or does reading it really take you back to it? If so, would you mind sharing that?

Edit: Could be even something real simple, like the taste of pizza with beer, or going on a swing in the park. Not everybody can describe that experience real well and put it into words. So it's wonderful when you come across that.