Well expectation can be subconscious as Sensei says, but also things in the dream can be representational as well.
Certainly a vague or even abiding expectation won't necessarily prevail
Let me recount for you my most epic fight with dream police in my most epic lucid dream.
I was just having fun based off a fun you-tube video I had seen and was running around the dreamscape having a good time.
When suddenly two dream police show up and basically want to take me in for crimes against dreamanity.
Officer One "I'm afraid you're going to have to come with US".
[I have just flown to super heights, summoned hundreds of DCs, created a fractal hand, cloned DCs etc. I am not for one second going to lose lucidity or comply with these dream police.] I am thinking: you have got to be f'n kidding me. They are both armed I am unarmed, I decide to make a point of my dissidence, I place my right hand on the left shoulder of officer one, I place my left hand on the left side of his head, I separate my hands. His head rolls off across the dreamscape and his body falls to my left.
So what would you expect the reaction of officer two to be, what do you think expectation would lead too. [It would stand to reason that a dreamer should expect instant retreat] Fathom then the action of officer two...
Officer Two "I'm very sorry sir, but I'm afraid your still going to have to come with ME"
I almost wanted to Laugh, I was standing there in disbelief, I had ripped his partner's head off with my bare hands right in front of him, and all he did was change the pronoun (and become apologetic). This is certainly not what I expected.
At this point neither did I expect this second officer was going to allow me to rip his head off. Luckily I have long had a particular power even in non-lucid dreams, the power to draw pistols from my waist (even If I don't have one).
I began to reach for my waist, but my eyes moved to his waist, there was his gun. I hesitated and had second thoughts, sure I'll probably come up with a gun but he definitely will (expectation) since I can see his.
Hmm... let me think where in this dreamscape can I definitely find a gun, I look down to the headless uniformed corpse as I see the head still rolling a bit further away, and see the other gun. (expectation paying off for sure here, I never doubted it would be there)
So what do I expect at this point, well I have further to reach and he is going to see it, he will have the drop on me, but then again this is my LUCID dream. I reach, he draws and hits me twice, as I draw he is backing away. I expect that I will heal instantly and I do. He is firing continuously, and so am I, but my gun runs out of bullets and his doesn't [how is this fair?] I have to yell 'reload' at my gun a few times before it to upgrades to infinite bullets (not that either one of us is hitting each other at increasing distance).
Eventually he has retreated to a white police van, and firing out the window, he is backing away at high speed. [Well I got the retreat I expected, by the way I did get a lot of hits on that van, paint was flying all over the place as I riddled it]
So now we come to possibly the most important expectation of all in this dream, because although I'm about to enter the void, I will recover, and more importantly I will return to a similar dreamscape, and continue one my merry way. But first my all important action.
I was having fun, I was accosted by dream police, I fail to convince the survivor to just leave, I win an epic battle, I am standing in the dreamscape with a gun in my hand.
My all important action, of the utmost importance. I toss the gun across the dreamscape.
Stop for a second and ask yourself why? Why did I do this?
Consider the expectation from the other side, imagine you're the enemy... your subconscious.
Look there he is 'the dreamer', standing there in the dreamscape, and just look at his hand, he has a gun in it. [Just what do you imagine the subconscious is thinking... what is it's expectation] I guess he's looking for a fight, sure the dreamer can summon guns from his waist out of nothingness. I'm the subconscious, I can summon everything he has ever feared from the entirety of his experience. ...So he wants a fight does he...
No, I didn't want a fight, this is why I tossed the gun.
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