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Prof_ThrowAway_69 t1_jee59l6 wrote

Reply to After many many years of evolution, we still can't control what we dream by HSJoaco_33

Maybe you can’t. Look into lucid dreaming. It’s not 100% control necessarily, but you can have some control. It’s not something that you can just do inherently though either. It takes a lot of practice.

It’s one thing from Inception that’s mildly accurate. You can control your dreams, not like they can but it’s doable. Instead of a hostile mob chasing you if you’re a stranger, if you can gain control and try to change too much or change something too drastically, you’ll wake up.

An easy way I’ve found is trying to fly. Typically you want to hard wire into your brain “this is the start flying action” and it can come more naturally in dreams. I can’t make myself fly 100% of the time, but I can get it done fairly consistently. My current thing I’m working on is learning to inject specific things or at least go back to previous dreams.

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Serxedocres t1_jee4oqs wrote

Reply to Dreams are the only acceptable form of hallucinations by ultimatemanan97

That's because dreams are often considered an acceptable form of hallucination because they are a natural and common experience that almost everyone experiences during their lifetime. They are also typically not disruptive to daily life in the way that other forms of hallucination, such as auditory or visual hallucinations, can be.

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