I was thinking in the shower about lucid dreaming and how our present perceptions derive from our lifetimes worth of sensory memories and I wondered how much top-down control is involved in perception. The lucidity of lucid dreams probably isn’t the realization that you are dreaming, but that you’re activating some top-down control otherwise quieter during sleep.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391