One day i was just sitting in bed, when i had the most vivid thought suddenly come into my head.  i have the feeling i was nearly asleep, or in a trance like state, so every thought had the other-worldly like feeling to it.  I thought ahead to the future, the technology, and the lives people would be living.  i wondered if the world would be nearly the same in about 100, though i know the year 2000 would seem farther back then most could imagine.  then i thought, why contemplate just 100 years of time? i skipped ahead 200, 500, even 1000 years humanities future.  the differences would be incomprehensible.  If someone such as one of us were somehow transported to that time, we may as well have been shot, for the shock must nearly be the same.  But then i realized i was letting the walls of my comprehension block me from really exploring my thoughts.  i began to imagine the world in the year 7000.  My mind was blown at the time gap between then and now.  I thoughts and imagination of that night swept over my body, the horizons of my mind expanding at an impossible rate.  I could see what it was like in this impossible time, and it was wonderful.  The sheer advancement from now took my breath away, as i felt strangely comforted by this unimaginable technology and society.  The moment of floating along in the vast sea of the future lasted for the smallest fraction of a second, but in that second, i saw beauty unlike anything i could articulate in words.  i awoke that morning and burst into tears at the vision that i had just had.  I couldn’t help it.  The vision haunted me for days, and it was the only thought on my mind.  At that moment, i had no other wish imaginable than to experience the time of the year 7000.  if i should only witness this for a millisecond, this glimpse would fulfill my deepest desires.  Since time has now passed since that glorious night, the vision has faded into nothing more than a old memory.  Yet still i cannot help but try to relive that wonderful moment when i felt as though i understood.  Understood everything.  And try you should too, because you cannot possible imagine what you may feel when you lay back and open up your mind to the mystery of the universe.