Ask Astronaut Greg Chamitoff: In Your Dreams

Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, is taking your questions. Here's your chance to hear direct from space. Chamitoff's schedule will not allow him to answer many questions, but he will attempt to answer a few each week. To submit your question, go to www.nasa.gov/ask!

Nancy, 51, of Florida asks:

Do you have dreams when you go to sleep in the space station? If yes, is it the same compared to the ones you have on Earth?

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• spacestation

[phrozen17]

they should get high in space... they probably already do

[senSedative112]

drugs in space...

[Ledamonster]

@dalsgaard12 thats pretty funny ( :

[Ledamonster]

Ever wonder why you sleep facing the same direction or on the same side of your bed... in space they don't have space orientation to comfort them. I sleep comfortably feet pointing west. The nights I sleep feet pointing east, I have vivid dreams... Try it! ( : Peoples fluids are all slightly different. I think when you disorientate the metallic properties in your system by shifting their magnetism your body has to catch up.

[dalsgaard12]

Actually I heard somewhere that erections are really common in space, and pretty easy to get because the blood-flow is'nt hindered by gravity.

Some of the male astronauts have even confirmed this.

[DrakkenWasHere]

Actually, this is for anyone to answer...But how does space affect the nerves system? For example: Pain. Does things hurt less? And if gravity takes the stress off of the muscles, what does it do to the nerves?

Thank you.

Lemel Takk

Cincinnati, OH

[beatboy001]

You are on a long and difficult road...

[Achlysis]

they would just stay still until they died of starvation or whatever. they wouldnt be able to move because according to newton every reaction needs an equal and opposite reaction and since space has no gravity it is impossible for someone to move like on earth unless they threw something they were holding. so basically they would just float along with the rapidly expanding universe until they died of natural causes.

[SaintofKillers66]

How does a zero gee environment affect one's erections in teh penile zone?

sonya, balls state

[kristal661]

um ya ian its both it depends