2 things happened in the last 24 hours, which, at the very least, indicate to me that my third eye is active. One was being woken by a silent "something" in the dark room at approx. 3:33 (didn't check the clock at the exact moment but it was just after that when I did check) and I saw a short, hooded figure (shadow) walk through my bedroom (heading south to north) on the other side of my bed. You know when it's your third eye, because it happens so fast you don't get to replay it again, and you blink and it's gone. My dog came to be at my side (I guess for reassurance) so I was not imagining this. Normally she doesn't come to me in the night. I sat with her for a few moments, and everything was profoundly silent... so it was not an outside noise that woke us, and she didn't whimper - she just wanted my calm hand on her. I don't get shocked or excited now when I see these things, so it is easier to remember clearly.
Moving on to morning, as I was driving (west to east) I saw a pillar of light. It was vertical, quite a far distance away (meaning in another suburb entirely), but my road aligned with it, and it was directly in front of me. It was bright, luminescent, white light coming down directly from a hole in the clouds (and there was a tinge of bright white around the hole, which would make sense if above the clouds it was present everywhere. The width of the beam was equal all the way from top to bottom. Although the sun rises in this direction (and it was morning) if it had been a stray ray of sunlight, I don't think it would have been so very vertical - normally they are slanted as they find holes to come through in the clouds (just thought of the word "locher" which is German for holes). As I pulled up to the red light to make my right hand turn, the beam was directly aligned behind a light pole, which shut it out from my view. I kept craning my neck to see around the pole and I could see it was fading out fast. By the time I made my turn it was very faded. Therefore, the vision lasted approximately 5 minutes from the first moment I saw it.
Analysing this afterwards, while driving, I thought: "Well, we are in the eclipse corridor, so it makes sense I saw something like cosmic emanations. I have seen things in clouds before". On the other hand, it could just have been that my third eye was wide open in that period since the night before, and therefore I was able to perceive something that maybe others didn't.