Originally Posted by
Dannon Oneironaut
One of the point of practicing lucid dreaming, is to take control of your dream, and realize that YOU are the dreamer. You are number 1, this is your dream. This theory is like the Matrix. In the Matrix, Neo realizes that HE is the one. The others are aware that they are in a dream, but they haven't realized that it is THEIR dream. In dreams, there are many subconscious things which grab our power. When we feel fear or shame in a dream, then something has our power and we do not realize that it is our dream. Then you cannot do your true will.
Looking at life in this way can enable you to take control of your life as if it were a dream, so that you can do your true will. Realizing that THIS life is yours and yours alone, just like a dream.
You are right, it doesn't really matter if you are dreaming right now or not, and we can never know. That leaves us a choice of how to live, and how to create our life. As long as whatever choice you make, you understand that your understanding is limited and reality is much more than you can imagine. This gives you infinite room to grow in. As you live, so you dream. As you dream, so you live. Living and dreaming becomes creative. And this life becomes your creation.