The most amazing and disappointing dream ever.

My alarm went off this morning and I leaned forward, hit snooze, and dropped back into bed. But then I sat up again, and looked out the window. It was still very early, so the sun hadn't come up yet. But I was watching the moon descend below the horizon, and at the same time, the sun rise above it. This was all happening quickly, like a time lapse, but without the stuttery motion. The other thing is that the sun didn't seem to be lit. It was ghostly white(but not transparent or anything), and I could easily see the solar flares all around it. The most amazing part of the dream was that other than the sun and the moon, there wasn't much else in the sky...no clouds. But what there was in the sky, looked like this:




Just a bright red nebula across the entire sky, as far as I could see, and thousands of stars. Far, far more than you see in that photograph. And I remember just staring in awe and smiling. Then I laid back down. I got up soon after and thought to myself how awesome that was, and that I should go take another look at it. But then slowly my mind started to piece together the impossibilities, such as the non-shining sun, the fast movement of both the sun and the moon, and oh yea, the red fucking nebula plastered across the sky. And it was so vivid, that I initially believed that I had seen it, I was convinced. And as reality set in, I just got kind of depressed.

If you want to be amazed by space, look at this picture. It's called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and it's an image taken by the Hubble Telescope between 9/03 and 1/04. It contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. Now, to put that into perspective, look at this picture. The HUDF, those ten thousand galaxies, the frame of that picture is that tiny little red X.