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Pretty much what dolphin said. To answer most of your questions, your subconscious mind changes what happens in your dream based on what you believe should happen. For example, if you are in a dream and are walking down the street and see someone and think that they are an assassin trying to kill you, chances are that they would probably do that.

To answer number 2, in waking life can you imagine something normal and then in 8bit/whatever graphics? It's possible to change how a dream looks in that fashion.

For number 3, yes, just ignore the feeling of your real body and it will go away. That worked for me.

4, maybe with a lot of control. The nature of dreams goes against this where things show up where they shouldn't. Trying to control your whole dream by focusing on that would retract from the experience and probably be not worth it.

5, I managed to pull that off a few times several years ago but I can never get it to work now. I guess with enough control, you can spawn everything in the dream to be how it was and press play. Before the story sort of just continued where it left off.

6, With shorter periods of time like a day, it's possible. I've had dreams where I've had my whole school day in one rem cycle and when I woke up and actually had to go to school, I was pissed. The only reason that it felt so long was because my mind filled in the gaps. The boring parts were left out and I just guessed that time had passed. I wouldn't find much enjoyment out of actively trying to do this, I'd much rather be focusing on controlling how time affects everything else in the dream, such as stoping it, slowing it down or speeding it up

This is also based off my own experiences so some of what I said may not be true for others so take it as you will.

When you say "in waking life can you imagine something normal and then in 8 bit/whatever graphics?" do you mean daydreaming, meditating or just pure imagination?

The most interesting thing to me you said in that post was "you can spawn everything in the dream to be how it was and press play.", i think that is very cool. Makes me wonder how long can you chain the same exact dream at each drop off point.