OK, I have a question for everyone. Where does light come from in our dreams?

In the waking world, of course, we can point to the sun, start a fire or flip on a light switch. It appears to require a source. Although science knows its speed, its nature remains elusive. In some situations light behaves like a particle, and in other situations it behaves like a wave. Kindly advise me if I am not up to light-speed on the latest.

So we climb into bed, close our eyes and it's dark. Then, Voila! - LIGHT! Our mind is somehow illuminated. And, as all observant dreamers know, it might be the full brightness of day, perhaps dismal or darkened by storm, maybe eerie in twilight, or shimmeringly subtle in night.

I was parked at a Las Vegas restaurant tonight. I was noticing all of the lights. Windows with lights on. Windows with lights off. Neon signs. Security floodlights. Headlights of passing cars. And the fascinating thing, I have seen each of these in my dreams with similar separation and equivalent clarity.

So what is going on here? I suspect that there is probably a theory of how the brain creates light in its remarkable talent for duplicating a convincing model of the world. Nevertheless, I must ask: If light can be a creation of the mind when asleep, is it possible that it is also a creation of the mind when awake? The sole difference may be that, in the physical world, we are required by our ingrained modes of thinking to find and identify an external source. Do any of you know of any evidence or tradition that suggests that Light is the primary emanation of the mind? If this is indeed the case, it would be no wonder that science has trouble nailing it down.

Of course this theory may be nonsense, and hence I am asking my esteemed friends in this Forum to shed their own light on the matter. /Stephen Berlin