Someone asked the great question about whether or not we believed in things we had not seen.
It reminded me that I had something wonderful Saturday night. Even though I've been to several planetariums it seems like all my visits always were plagued by cloudy skies. A friend brought his telescope to our weekly social distancing on my deck and I got to see the craters and lava fields on the moon and the rings on Saturn. I always believed in the craters and the rings but it was really cool getting to see them.
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I have visited spots outside the city (light pollution) where the MN Astronomical Society volunteers have several telescopes of various sizes. Driven by laptops, they can be pointed at a wide variety of celestial objects near-and-far. 
FearlessFly
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Aug 10, 2020
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see any gravity? 
hankster
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Aug 10, 2020
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you don't see gravity, you see the gravitational effect. You might as well ask if you had seen thought
@LenHazell53 have you ever seen dreams?
@hankster neither mine nor other people's no, I have experienced my own but never seen them, as my eyes are usually closed at the time
@LenHazell53 I reckon I should say my comment is a reference to a comment I made on the post she's referencing in this post. feels like kind of a shame to not see dreams.
@LenHazell53 Apparently, we actually do see our dreams...
@JeffMurray did you actually read the article you linked to?
the head line is "how the brain ‘sees’ dreams" the quotation marks indicating a non literal use of the word.
Of course if you want to interpret words to mean anything you want them them to then Eggwhisk, flounder and Ermintrude to you with rhubarb knobbs on.
@LenHazell53 Did you read it? It talked about the association been the REM and the stimulation of the visual cortex.
"These results suggest that the rapid eye movements that occur in sleep are linked to visual processing rather than just physical activation or movement. So, the participants may have actually been looking at a dream image, rather than these eye movements simply reflecting motor discharge in the brain."
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