I guess it's silly to say that the solar system contains a lot of space, unless your concept of distance is astronomical in dimension; when it comes to miles and millions of miles we go from close to 100 million from Sun to Earth and from Sun to Pluto can be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.8 to 4.6 billion.
But there is more to the Solar system than the planets and as the distances from the Sun get larger there's more stuff between here and there. Although it's literally colder than ice.
Think of the frozen bodies beyond Pluto that we barely or never glimpse.
Encapsulating it all is the vast spherical Oort cloud which dwarfs the little distances of the inner worlds. Its terminus which is not discreet marks the outer boundary of the solar system and lies in the neighborhood of 18 trillion miles from the sun.
I bring this up to point out that outside the Oort cloud is some considerable distance from here and we don't even think about going there today.
But that's where this dream started: on board a test vessel sitting in cramped quarters. Everything pitch black inside the ship. I dreamed I was one of three pilots busily preparing to see how fast it could go.
We commenced movement and I did not feel any inertial tug or gravitational force inside the craft we felt like we were sitting still. We clocked our speed in terms of percent of speed of light, moving in the single digits: then 10 percent; then a quarter of the speed of light.
As the test ended I recall that we had reached half the speed of light; and I don't have a clue how far we had gone or in what direction.
