Lucid dreaming may be socially odd but should be fine, Caudwell wrote about it hypothetically (guy didn't know it existed) as a tool to explore potential praxis but worried when they weren't shared it'd recreate all the errors of old fashioned religion (and ofc escapism). Neurosci/psych agree on lding being existent, the question 10 years ago was were really conscious during them or just remembering so, some of the older neuropsychs are still adamant we're not really conscious during them (Damasio comes to mind for a famous one), imaging studies looked promising, and since this is story telling by the campfire, tbh I've been more lucid in some dreams than I have at work or trips to the grocery store, then again I'm an lding natural, so its like twice a week with next to 0 effort for me.

Rest heck if I know, I'm pretty hard materialist but I'm of the mind if the bourgeois use all sorts of symbolism etc as a tool as should we, no tool should be off the table. There was an old USSR film where Mullah Nasreddin pretended to be an astrologer to avoid the king's wraith. Now, I wouldn't do that in current conditions since there's as many laws still in the books against astrologers and similar in the west esp Burgerland as there are against reds, but there shows some potential use.