Lucid dreaming. As we all know, it's when you're dreaming and become aware that you're dreaming. You can then explore your dream, with a conscious mind, even though you're asleep.

Here's where we can record any such instances we experience.

It happened to me last night. I was lying in bed when the bedroom door kept opening and closing. So, I sat up and demanded that whatever was doing it showed itself.

Nothing did show itself but the difficulty I was having in getting any sound to come from my throat made me realise I must be dreaming.

I, therefore, decided to get out of bed and see what wonders I could experience in my dream.

I tried to push my hand through one of the bedroom walls but that didn't work. So, I decided to look out the window and see how closely the view in my dreams matched the one I'm used to in real life. Looking out across the city, I could see loads of buildings, and the hills on the far horizon.

So, I got my binoculars out for a more detailed look and was impressed by just how many buildings I could see as I scanned the vista and, also how detailed it all was. I also saw two TV masts that aren't there in real life, and I could see all the details on them, as well.

It was at this point that I decided that consciousness can't reside within the brain because there was no way a brain could generate all that information and detail in real-time. Therefore, I concluded, consciousness must reside elsewhere and we must just be able to access it with our brains.

I think some other stuff happened after that but I don't remember what.

There was a time once, I thought I heard someone knocking my front door loud. I got out of bed, nobody there. Looked out the window if it was someone wanting to come into the building via the main entrance, nothing. Thought it was for across the street or next door, believing it was a sole paramedic seeing to one of the problem tenants next door or the old couple across the road. Nobody there.

I used to quite often wake up thinking my front door was being knocked on. It happened this morning in fact after I'd been dreaming about a Batman-style supervillain gluing people to things and making the police think it was me doing it.

When I say it happened in fact, I meant it's a fact that this hypnopompic effect happened. There was no-one at the door.

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It’s never happened to me. I’ve also tried dream setting before I fall asleep, and that doesn’t work with me either. I’m a very present person. The fact that I’d know I was awake would preclude any kind of dream other than a regular daydream.

NDN1984 wrote:

There was a time once, I thought I heard someone knocking my front door loud. I got out of bed, nobody there. Looked out the window if it was someone wanting to come into the building via the main entrance, nothing. Thought it was for across the street or next door, believing it was a sole paramedic seeing to one of the problem tenants next door or the old couple across the road. Nobody there.

It’s funny you should say that. As a young child I must’ve seen pictures of Picts in a book or on television, because then I dreamt that a tribe of tattooed blue warriors with flowing locks was tearing through the night to murder me, and incessantly ringing my grandparents doorbell. I couldn’t understand why nobody else could hear it, and the whole household was unappreciative of my screaming warning of the etiquette minding killers at the door. But that’s not a lucid dream, just a toddler waking from a nightmare.