One thing i recently enjoy doing when becoming lucid is just sitting back and admiring the surroundings and how real and vivid they appear. It never ceases to amaze me as i look around, still aware that im lying asleep in bed, but also awake in this other alternative 'reality'. Like having your own virtual reality device

A recent dream started off in my old bedroom in a place i used to live, this house always triggers a DILD as i soon realise i havent lived there for over 6 years. So i decide to look out the window and was amazed at how realistic everything appeared. The net curtain hanging up, the window sill painted blue, the street and paths below, the kids swings in the distance. It was almost an exact replica.

Its always fascinated me how the brain produces these amazing photo-realistic images during lucid dreams. How does it do it? Are they really as lifelike as they seem or is the unconscious brain tricked into thinking it looks that real?