“ Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. ”
The fact that both ego and self say I is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, I am what I know myself to be. The self says merely, I am.
~ Stephen Laberge
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.
