Apparently she has missed the strong link between Buddhism and lucid dreaming, encourage her to research it.
There is necessarily no connection between the ego and lucid dreaming, it depends on your intent.
Lucid dreaming is exploration of your inner self, which can give opportunities for lessons learned or spirtitual growth.
I do not understand her argument about how we are trapped in our consciousness, consciousness is fundemental, everything else is virtual (parallels with buddhist concept of
illusion), does she oppose consciousness, as true enlightment is unconsciousness?
Threads of truth runs in all religions, but must is twisted truth or nonsense, the same with buddhism. As she says "detours that will never let you "out of the box"" can be said about religion too, beliefs traps are everywhere, especially serving for the ego.
Tell her to to experience lucid dreaming before she judge it, otherwise she is preconceived. She can research about lucid dreaming and its relation to dreaming or lucid dreaming,
Dream Yoga can be her first research.
Further explanation may be needed for the concept of
ego, it is not an easy task to do, I am out of time for now
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