Have you ever gone to sleep, dreamed, and recognised that you are dreaming? This is Lucid Dreaming, or Eidetic Dreaming. When it happens, you marvel at the
reality of the dream. There is so much incredible detail; you focus on the detail, and it grows in vivid complexity. Could this incredible detail, which surprises you, really have been created
by you? Could you be
surprising yourself?No one who experiences this can be a solipsist. Even
your own dreams are
other.
When you wake up, is your body really you? Do you know exactly what is going on in your own liver? Do you know what is going on in your own kidneys? Your own body is something
other than you that needs investigation
by you in order to be known (another serious blow to an aspiring solipsist).
Being conscious when you are awake is like
knowing that you are dreaming when you are asleep. That is not to say that waking life is the same as dreaming. It isn't. But there is a similarity in that
you see everything as extraordinarily vivid and surprising and also you recognise that
all creation comes from somewhere else (God)
. This is the way
not to be a zombie! A baby is usually born conscious, and with practice you may well remember what that was like. Being conscious means that you will have an automatic understanding of children.