Been experimenting with watching what happens when I close my eyes in bed at night. Typically starts off with a red and black-speckled veil/membrane that moves and unfurls giving way to a green glowing blob that then joins with a blue one to form a blue-green array of moving blobs. Then other forms seem to enter the picture, darker stick-like forms that revolve and shift positions, organically-moving other blobs of purple and golden brown and red that seem to move with intent, and small sharp details like doodles and text and structures. Every now and then vivid blue dots appear and fade away. Here's a webpage with other people's experiences. I've never seen actual people or scenes, but it seems quite common. Clairovoyance? Astral vision? Or just hypnagogic hallucinations?
https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/20...o-you.html
Very rarely, I've had indistinct patches of faint illumination or color transform into the detailed objects and environment of a dream; and also vice versa.
Remembering that such happened, though, is dependent upon knowing that one just entered a dream or just left one -- akin to the qualifications of a lucid dream.
The effect is almost like those scenes in a movie where the camera starts out deeply unfocused -- just blurry blobs. And then, as the lens is adjusted, the indefinite stuff sharpens into the contents of a room with windows. Or the trees, sky and benches of a park. Or whatever.
So that's an idea that crosses my mind sometimes. That occasionally it might be background dreams going on while I'm awake. Only partially revealed when the eyes are closed, that can't be perceptually refined into what they are until the thoughts of wakeful consciousness close down completely.
Occasionally I'll move my hands even though they are by my side still on the bed and below my field of vision. But I will still see a corresponding ghostly motion before me, as if there are many hands extending from my real hands up into the air and in diminished visibilities. I still find that fascinating. I will use a blindfold I bought and see what happens tonight. I swear vision isn't what we think it is.
The view with my eyelids closed seems to want to take on certain identifiable shapes. Sometimes eyes. Sometimes tunnels or corridors between walls. Most the time some sort of undersea creatures like a jellyfish or octopus or fish. That's why I call it the Astral Sea, a Google search only frustratingly turning up a video game already named that. I hate the whole video game industry. All the good names are already stolen.