Originally posted by **?Sephiroth?**

Trying things out in your dreams to get a clue as to how things would turn out in real life deffinately sounds interesting (if thats what you meant by coming up with solutions to real life problems) If its a dream though surely the outcome of your actions does not indicate the same outcome will occur in real life?
Yeah, running secarios through your dreams could give you a clue how to approch it in real life. If you play it over multiple times, you could get a fairly accurate idea of how things would/could unfold, or what you should do in certain situations. You would need a fair bit of dream control for this though.
You could even use lucidity to overcome something like a phobia, or some other thing that is troubling you, safe in the knowledge that nothing is real in the dream.