Interesting video, Daniel! I'm not sure it was where you were going, but you very nicely illustrate how consequential our interaction with reality is, even when we feel like we are doing almost nothing at all.

I am obliged to assume that free will exists, since free will (and will in general) forms for me the foundation on which the stairway to higher consciousness rests. Without free will, without the ability to choose to encourage and welcome transcendental experience, the "more" I seek would likely not exist -- and that would suck. So put me in the camp of those who think we do indeed have some control over our destinies, should we choose to take the wheel... of course, the discussion (especially in the context of LD'ing) should perhaps be more about exercising free will to best modify our destinies than it should be about whether these things exist.

I see free will, for instance, as one of those things that languish on one of the higher shelves in the pantry of our minds' neglected options, just below self-awareness, and nearly as dusty as the jars of compassion, selflessness, and observation scattered among the shelves below. And destiny? Well, we seem to only talk about that when something bad happens to us, or something good happens to someone else, and rarely if ever do we stop to wonder how we might do something (i.e., exercise some free will) to alter that perceived destiny.