Justabloke: I use to be able to make my dreams go alone the way i wanted in full knowledge i was dreaming whats that do for the imagination
I used to be very in tune with my dreams like that....sometimes as director, sometimes more of an oberver..like a dream within a dream. Then I started keeping a dream jourrnal. That led to what would become one of the weirdest sequences of experience I ever had. It got where the boundaries between dreams and waking became blurred, and during the day I felt that I was awake in a dream and dragging a lifeless body around like so much dead weight. It became burdensome to the point of being almost painful. To sustain such a mental challenge for any significant span of time would surely drive a person to madness.
Anyway, after a few short weeks (or long, depending on how you look at it), I abandoned the dream journal project. Since then, I've seldom had the lucid dreams like what I had back then.