My travels around the upper Midwest are any time day or night and also year-round. At the end of the summer, we went to Nebraska to see family and catch the total solar eclipse, which was a fabulous experience. The 2 or 3 minutes of mindfulness generated by this event were noteworthy, putting us all in a zen like state for the duration.

Driving home to North Dakota, I spent a lot of time thinking about the universe and the motion of all things celestial- apparently, solar eclipses are unique to Earth in our solar system. The other planets and their moons don’t line up, or are the wrong distance for the events to be visible from the planet’s surface, rendering our event even more unique. Combined with the occasional aurora borealis and some recent readings, my head has been filled with thoughts of all things of the universe.

As a result, I have had several dreams about space travel since, but the one I keep coming back to is this:
I was on a sophisticated spaceship that had a complex security and operational system that revolved around morphology and biopsychosocialtechno profiles and interfaces- you had to go through the profiles in a specific sequence for security clearance. Many non-human intelligent species inhabited the craft.

Many visions of the future are apocalyptic. I don’t think this one is, but surely technology is part of what’s next; I find that exciting, and wish good fortune for the thousands of generations to follow. Dream on, celestial dreamers.