You are just coming out of that cycle of sleep now into the cycle of wakefulness. When you are in the sleep cycle the fabric of the mass consciousness that encloses you is tightly woven like a tight piece of canvas cloth. Therefore, new ideas have a difficult time penetrating that tightly woven cloth. This keeps you very securely asleep in that cycle. As you begin to move out of that cycle and move into the awakening cycle, the fabric begins to loosen and lighten.
Light can begin permeating.
Thought and consciousness can begin permeating. The fabric itself begins to start looking a little bit like swiss cheese with lots and lots of holes. It is then when you experience paradigm shift. Once paradigm shift occurs, reality fabric changes. That which was unseen previously now becomes seen.