Years ago something like that would happen to me occasionally, and I'd think about it and try to come up with an 'explanation' for it. Maybe, for example, those types of helicoptors do really fly over a lot, but you just don't notice because your attention hasn't been drawn to it from the dream. I'd come up with an explanation like that, then I'd get another experience that couldn't quite be explained that way. So I'd come up with a better explanation. Over time the experiences got stronger, more frequent, and more objectively demonstrable, and the explanations got more and more contrived and ridiculous. By about two years ago I was having experiences like the one you describe several times a week. Now over the past year or so its pretty much stopped again, but I think that's mostly because my curiousity isn't driving it any more.
It still bothers me that there's a chasm between two competing ways of thinking about the world, one in which stuff like that happens, and one in which it doesn't. On the one side are flaky people that seem to believe anything that sounds plausible is as good as true. On the other side are narrow people who seem to believe that anything they can't presently 'explain' must not be real. In the middle are people like us who doubt our everyday experiences because the part of ourselves that is in the second group doesn't want to be in the first group. I feel I want to bridge the gap, at least for myself.
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