Solar Capture

I do not know why I have been watching the sun with more attention these days. It seems brighter like I have never noticed before. It seems much bigger before the sunsets too. Are there solar storms ---- eruptions on the sun lately? Is something changes in our layers of atmosphere? It just made me feel strange every time I am looking up at the sun. I have no idea why I am looking up at the sun so blindly more often than I used to. It just makes me feel strange --- not just once --- not just right now --- it's been a few month. I just felt that it seems more and more brighter and bigger. The color of the sun is different too --- it used to be on the yellow red orange hue --- but now it is just like a thousand watt light bulb and makes me feel like a tiny bug which just cannot look away from this strange attraction although it is blinding me. Why is the sun looks closer? I feel very silly --- yet I cannot help being anxious.

the image is from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Sun_pillar_forms_as_the_sun_rises_over_the_Arctic_plain_-_NOAA.jpg