Hi everyone, here's a kind of random question that I thought could have interesting ramifications.

I would find it out for myself, but I haven't yet had a solid lucid since I've been trying.

The question is, when you close one eye in a dream, do you see a different perspective than from your other eye? (This is the real life effect of closing one eye and pointing at something in the distance, then switching eyes and seeing your finger "jump").

The reason I think this could be an interesting question, is it could throw some light on how your brain constructs its model of the world around you. If you do see a different view from each eye, then that could mean that when you dream your brain is actually kind of reversing the process of normal seeing. It would be building a model of the world, and then "rendering" a view of it for each eye, and showing it to your visual cortex.

If you don't see a different view then I guess that means that your experience of stereo vision in dreams is a result of actually knowing how far away things are, since it's constructed by your mind. This might mean that the processing of 3D gets done at an earlier step in the process of seeing, before your conscious experience of seeing happens.

I'm totally talking out of my ass, but I'd be curious to hear other people's thought's and experiences regarding this, particularly if you have some knowledge of neuroscience, of which I have effectively none haha.

Btw, this is my first post on these forums, hopefully I'm putting it in the right place, thanks in advance for your thoughts! Lucid dreams seem like such potentially informative laboratories to study the inner workings of the mind free from external sensory stimulus, sort of how the space station is a great place to study things in zero g. I'm looking forward to a true lucid myself.