Where I live, Vancouver Island, the moon last night was definitely bigger and brighter. The entire sky was like a Chinese lantern, and the land and the water around me, including the trees and the mountains were like a Christmas illumination...definitely magic...a visual incantation. And no, I don't do drugs.
There were some clouds too, but the moon was piercing through them. It was so special that I took the time to check her out with my pair of powerful binoculars.
Also, the light coming out from outside and through my windows and inside my living room was intense enough that I didn't need my regular low level living room lights.
No, I don't close the blinds @ night, because my view is of the mountains and of the water and forests and trees. Blinds are kept open 24/24, 7/7, 365/365.
I close one during the summer time because the sun peeks directly in one section of my Blu-ray movie collection. And the sun would discolor the inserts of the Blu cases.
Everything above I kid you not. I didn't take pictures because my cameras aren't up to it, but trust me, my eyes saw exactly what I described...even better than any camera built by any human. Because with human eyes we are surrounded by a much larger dimensional perspective, @ both sides, below and above. A camera lens simply cannot see and feel what a pair of human eyes experience in real life.