I&#x27;ve always been jealous of people who could do stuff like talk to &quot;other&quot; people or listen to symphonies in their head. But I just realized: I do all that stuff too, but only when I&#x27;m dreaming. The incredible environments, landscapes, and people that come to me in my dreams seem to exist outside my head entirely, because there&#x27;s simply no way for me to conjure them when I&#x27;m awake. It&#x27;s as if my brain doles out my consciousness only as a tiny, fractional part of its full capabilities. In other words, I am maybe not as much its master as I thought. I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to unlock that ability in my everyday life.<p>Sidenote: I can sometimes sort of do it when I&#x27;m awake, but only when I&#x27;m really, really tired.