Has anyone opened their eyes while still dreaming?

[samsara]

I have had this happen to me a couple of times and it is odd to watch the dream dissolve and waking reality come into view.

[owl]

Yes I have had this happen. A while back I had a dream where I was telling my friend in the dream that I was seeing in the dream world but was physically awake. In the dream I could see in the sky what looked liked 6 parachutes floating but no one else could see them. The dream kept on, and in the dream I kept floating in the air with no control. Throughout the dream I kept seeing the parachutes untill I finally woke up with my eyes open looking at the wall in my room where there were some paint chips on the wall that were the parachutes I was seeing. Weird feeling.

[CFTraveler]

Yep.  It's called hypnopompic imagery.

[samsara]

Thanks for that CF, I hadn't heard that term before. That's some more reading material for me to look up

[Lighten]

That's trippy!

I have seen through my eyelids, but never while dreaming. Unless I wasn't actually seeing through my eyelids are they were actually open, then yes. But I couldn't tell you which was the case because i had no camera filming myself. Wish I had!

[tr0798]

I did this last Monday morning on accident when I was in a lucid dream. I woke up instantaneously.

[CFTraveler]

The more aware of this you become, the more you do it.