The Whole World In The Sky

My girlfriend and I live in a place where lots of stars are visible in the night sky. The other evening we were laying on our backs looking up at the night sky and I thought it would be neat if rather than Earth being a globe floating in the vastness of space, it was a globe of space floating through a vast "Earthiness". I felt like I was hovering above, and at times even falling towards the giant space mass. Like stationary sky diving. After revelling in the moment for a bit, my girlfriend suggested that it would be really cool too if the stars were actually far away cities, a visual you would get if you lived on the interior surface of a hollow, earth sized globe. The idea really stuck with me because I felt like the visual of it was so powerful and interesting. Now almost every time I look at the night sky I envisage those cities, and how even something so natural and taken for granted, can still be viewed in an entirely new ways if you just take the time to look, and step outside the box even just a little bit. If anybody reading this has decent night sky viewing I highly recommend, even if just for a moment or two, for you to go outside, lay back, and imagine different ways of interpreting the stars, clouds, and everything out.