New nightmare.

I was in Oklahoma (or was it Illinois?), in the house I grew up in. My sister ran out to the car, and I followed her. It was a cold, crisp clear winter night, and there was crunchy snow packed everywhere. The snow was impossibly bright, like diamond dust reflecting a cool radiant light. I looked up....and the sky was full of stars. Not just a few stars surrounded by blackness, like I'd expect - packed to the horizon with stars. What looked like space between the stars was just more, dimmer stars. And as I looked out past the back of the house towards the horizon, I saw the Milky Way rising. It rose impossibly fast, swinging over the sky in such a way as to emphasize just how spherical the Earth really was, and how fast it was spinning. I screamed, and dove back into the doorway, and the hall past it. I fell, and crouched against the floor, but I couldn't get the horrible dizzying feeling out of my head...

I've had nightmares of seeing Mars rising to fill half the sky with red doom. This was its blue counterpart, and just as scary it its own beautiful, crystalline way.

New nightmare.

I was in Oklahoma (or was it Illinois?), in the house I grew up in. My sister ran out to the car, and I followed her. It was a cold, crisp clear winter night, and there was crunchy snow packed everywhere. The snow was impossibly bright, like diamond dust reflecting a cool radiant light. I looked up....and the sky was full of stars. Not just a few stars surrounded by blackness, like I'd expect - packed to the horizon with stars. What looked like space between the stars was just more, dimmer stars. And as I looked out past the back of the house towards the horizon, I saw the Milky Way rising. It rose impossibly fast, swinging over the sky in such a way as to emphasize just how spherical the Earth really was, and how fast it was spinning. I screamed, and dove back into the doorway, and the hall past it. I fell, and crouched against the floor, but I couldn't get the horrible dizzying feeling out of my head...

I've had nightmares of seeing Mars rising to fill half the sky with red doom. This was its blue counterpart, and just as scary it its own beautiful, crystalline way.