I've read online that it is possible to solve problems IRL by solving them in lucid dreams. This is exactly what I need to do, to solve my best friend's problem.

My best friend's name is Moo (nick name). He is one year older than me and is enrolled at Virginia Tech this year. About a month ago, he started to get into some funk where he could not concentrate or understand anything about his classes. Also, he couldn't seem to become happy about any situation, whether it be with girls or going to parties at college. He came home because one of his exs invited him to our school dance. When I saw how down Moo was when he came back, I knew something was wrong. After the weekend was over he couldn't bring himself to go back to college and told me that he had a major break down which made him realize how bad he was feeling.

I have several ideas on why he is so sad, but I can't be sure. Once I figured out how bad he was actually feeling, I introduced him to lucid dreaming and told him to do it with me as I was just starting back up again. Him and I constructed (on a piece of paper) a lucid dream scenario in which he walks into my room and tells me to show him the solution to his problem, which would be in my closet. The intention is that he would wake my dream figure up, and my dream figure would open the door and be completely straight with him in telling him his problem.

Moo told me he has had this lucid dream, but my dream figure wouldn't show Moo the solution which was in my closet. The problem is that I'm very close with Moo and sometimes he feels so close to me that he can't tell me things because he's afraid of what I'll think. I need help in devising a new dream which will show him his actual problem through someone else.