1. Dreams are as real to us while we’re dreaming as “reality” is in our waking state. When we’re aware that we’re dreaming, lucid dreaming, we can manipulate dictate events in our dreams. It shouldn’t be too far of a stretch to believe that we can experience “lucid wakefulness”. 2. When you are solving a problem/situation without aid from anyone or input from the outside, and you at length arrive to some answer/solution, you must acknowledge, the answer was hiding inside you the entire time, it just took some work to extract it.