Ok, I'm going to try and describe something I've been experiencing A LOT lately. But I'm drunk, so bear with me.
I'm asleep when it happens, but rarely fully asleep. It happens more often if I'm dozing in between hitting snooze on my alarm and it going off again. It's hard to explain what happens, so I'll use an example that is probably the most common occurence:
I'm dreaming that I'm browsing the internet. I'm aware that I'm dreaming - i.e. it's like a form of lucid dreaming. Often, I'm fully aware of where I am, and it's like a computer screen image superimposed over my surroundings. I can navigate things like a normal web browser. I can look things up, and my mind creates fully-realiesed Wikipedia entries, etc. Like seriously. I can read through pages of text, word for word, but my mind has either created this from scratch, or (more likely) mashed together subconscious memories. It's awesome. I wish I could do this all the time.
I'm beginning to think it's my version of a memory palace and that in this state, I can look up anything I've ever experienced, however fleetingly, via a Wikipedia interface. I've compared stuff that I've created in my mind during these periods to actual fact, and they almost always match.
If I could learn to control this... awesome.
Of course, it might just be the booze turning me slowly insane.
