Those are two questions that I think are asked by newbies, but usually in a sarcastic manner. If one has repeated dreams as I have for the last month and a half, one would realize that actually reveals something about the nature of dreams. As a result, I would like to clarify what I see as many misconceptions about dreaming, ones for which I will provide an alternate explanation.

While I do think anything is possible in dream land, I do not think anything is possible in a single dream. Last night, I had a dream in which I was more or less forced into doing something I had no intention of doing. It compounds with my theory that we can also be denied from doing something we are not intended to do, be it by false awakenings or by distractions and loss of lucidity.

Before this experience, I already thought that dream was like a movie, in that the dreamer is the actor, their higher mind is the director, and also offers a storyline with something to be learned. I would like to unify this with another observation, that each time I regain lucidity, in a repeated dream, lucidity comes under the same circumstance as the time before. As a result, it leads me to believe that lucidity is contained within the movie, it's an artifact of each dream, which is my answer to the second question.

To bring this discussion full circle, we revisit the initial question, of why people do what they do in dreams. In one sense, one brings it upon one's self, but in another sense, one does not. There is some room for fluctuation in a dream, just like when shooting a scene in a movie. However, once a dreamer is on the set, one's actions are predetermined, they are expected to conform to the script.

The question still remains, how do I become lucid? Well, one is able to choose the roles they play. In other terms, the dreamer determines the dream. This phenomenon, named dream incubation, has been previously discovered. I explain it using the fundamental universal law of attraction, that like things attract. Unifying all of this, we find that we need to request roles with lucidity. That is, in order to have a lucid dream, we must attract dreams where we will become lucid. During the rest of dream time, follow the path of least resistance. Evidence of this theory can be seen by those who have had multiple, distinct, lucid dreams in the same night.