1. Find a place where you can see the stars. Is it dark enough? Find a place where you can really see the stars.

2. Lie down. (We recommend a patch of grass, but it’s really up to you. Just don’t lie in the street. That would be dangerous.)

3. Stretch your arms and legs up in the air so you can just see them in your peripheral vision.

4. Wave them smoothly and slowly, like you’re floating in zero gravity.

5. Focus all your attention on the stars above you, on the feeling of weightlessness, on the magic and mystery of the vast and unknowable universe. Poof! You’re an astronaut.

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