Flashing lights

"Dan?"
"Yeah Phil?"
"When you look at the stars, what do you think?"
"That I'm seeing the light from a star that's been dead for years... Like our dreams."
"Haha, very funny. Really though, what do they make you think of?"
"Phil, you're going to give me an existential crisis"
"Dan, if you have a crisis, I'll lay face down with you on this grass, now answer my question"