Amazing how that works. Once you are a certain age people just don't argue.
Oh, and here's a morale booster for you I am 90% certain that Wes Craven who created those Nightmare on elmstreet movies lucid dreams and creates his films in dreams before he films. I think I remember him saying something on a talk show. I think it was David Letterman. This was YEARS ago so don't quote me on that. You'll have to write him and ask.
Good paper on Lucid Dreaming your friends might read:
http://www.orthogonal.com.au/hobby/lucid/index.htm
http://wescraven.com or
http://www.wescraven.com you might could do a short film on lucid dreaming and ask Craven for a few words. Or write a paper on dreams and film. The article link has some notes on art and film from dreams.
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