dd occasion that I do remember my dreams,
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quite often I have a dream where I'm back in space.
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I'm floating down one of the very long Mir modules
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I'll be going past at this nice, slow rate.
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Really sedate. And then there's a window approaching,
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and as I look out and see the earth, with some blue sea and brilliant white clouds,
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and the curvature of the earth, my eyes are used to the bright lights inside
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the space station so I don't see the stars
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it just looks black on top. Then, floating the opposite direction, coming
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to join me is first Sergei, and then my other crewmates
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who were up there. We just stay around this window.
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Together, we don't say anything in my dream, we're just there. I can hear them breathing,
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and I can feel their warmth because we're really quite close to each other,
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and we're all just looking out of the window.
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Everybody talks about how beautiful the earth looks.
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I always felt in a strange way at once disconnected
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and connected to the earth, because I really didn't feel
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like I was part of it anymore. I was looking back at the earth.
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And yet, I knew that was my home. That was where I wanted to return.
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I absolutely wanted to go back.
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Astronauts just look out and see the physical geography.
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We talk about the countries that we can see,
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and of course you're seeing them in different orientations.
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Then, after a day or two, you stop talking about that,
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and you start to talk about the things that you're missing on earth.
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It's all to do with the people you remember back on earth.
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Our families, our friends, and when we go over countries
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we don't think about the geography below us, we think about the people that are there,
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and hopefully future meetings with them.
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How does that dream end?
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Usually I gently wake up, and I'm always very disappointed
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because I wanted to be back in spa