I apologize, and I plan to do so soon in hopes of stimulating discussion. It hasn't happened yet. I've never experienced a dream where I knew I was dreaming and could control the path of the dream, but many of the contributors to the Netnews group alt.dreams.lucid say they have, as have some of my acquaintances. Hmm, what a fascinating idea. I think the closest I ever came to a lucid dream was when I was doped up on nitrous oxide .
Life is but a dream.
But there's some interesting stuff too, like heavily researched info on anesthetics and dreams. I'm still curious about that. X or you just dreamed that it was X, for X being things like creativity, complexity, profundity, beauty, etc. I've dreamed interesting buildings that if I were an architect I could probably build, and people could then walk into them and confirm for me whether I'm really a tremendously good designer when I'm asleep, or my designs are interesting only to me. On the other hand, I've dreamed original music and stories and such that were wonderful in the dream and for as long as I could maintain a half-awake state, but I simply couldn't remember enough of them in full consciousness to decide whether they're good even to ME when awake.