pick a celestial object, any celestial object
I was riding somewhere in a car with some people and noticed that I could see the moon and the sun in the same sky, as sometimes happens, very near each other in fact, and it was that level of cloudiness where you could look right at the sun and see the roundness of it, and there was the moon being just exactly the same size. Then I noticed I could see the moon twice, like there were two moons. I didn't really think about why this might be, like if it was double-refracting through the car window or something.
Then we turned a corner and I noticed that the moon was frikkin' huge, like it took up like 20% of the sky, and it was perfectly round, and you could even see the sphericalness of it, like the edges seemed noticeably farther away than the middle. I commented on how awesome it was, but never thought to question it.
This is why I can't figure out how people do lucid dreaming. Even when it's so blatantly obvious that things are happening which couldn't possibly be real, in the reality of the dream this kind of thing is perfectly natural. How can people realize that they're dreaming, when even such things as the moon simultaneously being in two places at once and not being in two places at once, and also simultaneously being impossibly huge and near the earth and not being impossibly huge and near the earth, don't even tip me off?
Then we turned a corner and I noticed that the moon was frikkin' huge, like it took up like 20% of the sky, and it was perfectly round, and you could even see the sphericalness of it, like the edges seemed noticeably farther away than the middle. I commented on how awesome it was, but never thought to question it.
This is why I can't figure out how people do lucid dreaming. Even when it's so blatantly obvious that things are happening which couldn't possibly be real, in the reality of the dream this kind of thing is perfectly natural. How can people realize that they're dreaming, when even such things as the moon simultaneously being in two places at once and not being in two places at once, and also simultaneously being impossibly huge and near the earth and not being impossibly huge and near the earth, don't even tip me off?