Wow, thats amazing. I've only ever had a couple space dreams but one of them was by far the scariest dream I've ever had. I was outside the shuttle doing some sort of maintenance or something when it slowly started to fly away for some reason. I was simply floating in a slow rotation there by myself, looking out on space and earth and realizing I was going to float there until I died. It was so real and so terrifying I remember I was shaken up for a few days afterward.
You might enjoy this recent podcast on radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/oct/08/dark... amazing how humble and calm the guy comes across as
Seconded. I listened to that a few days ago and it's an incredible story.
You may enjoy http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
Fascinating dream. Being in space must be a huge jolt to the psyche in the first place, let alone remotely viewing Earth. I sometimes experience anxiety just from looking at the sky on a particularly clear night and knowing how fucking enormous those little dots really are.
I dreamt of the launch, the G-Forces, the adrenaline rush, and finally the sky turning from blue to black as we escaped the atmosphere.
Then the shuttle turned over so we could see the Earth. As the cockpit window rotated and Earth came into view, the feeling of _sheer terror_ washed over me as I saw how small the planet looked. I had a panic attack in my dream from looking back down at Earth. I woke up a few minutes later as if from a nightmare. It was the strangest experience, and the imagery and feelings are extremely vivid in my memory. I wonder if humans have an innate emotional response to this size perspective, but this seems somewhat related to the Overview Effect described in the article.