Ptolemy and Hipparchus could not imagine it, and they were astronomers. They didn't see "more stars", they saw a white haze. You can have exactly ZERO imagination in 2011 and still know the white haze is more stars, thanks to photographic evidence of Hubble and other telescopes.
The bible was literally correct when it tells us the number, "like the sands of the sea", or about 10^26th. That's not a mistake, or an accident.
Maybe you missed when I said 'naked eye'. I saw, with my
naked eye, stars wedged in between stars. When I looked at the milky way, I saw, indeed, a 'white haze'. But the edge of that white haze was made up of more stars. I could deduce, then, that perhaps the stars there were simply so close in that haze that I could not differentiate them with my naked eye.