JStar

Sticking with Leo's dream analogy: We give names to describe our degree of self-awareness in any given dream scenario. Vivid dreams, lucid dreams, normal dreams, nightmares, out of body experiences. The greater degree of self-awareness that one is dreaming (do whatever they want because this is a dream and I control it), the greater agency and influence over your dream body's actions and thoughts and even the dream scape itself. On rare occasions (even when with low degree of awareness) one can awaken from an intense dream in which you experienced an extreme physical sensation only to find your body experiencing 'echoes' of that experience as if something like that happened in the material/relative world. Such as it is with material (aka relative) existence overall, to put in terms our relative minds can conceive. Plus, as far as I'm aware when we incarnate, there's a sort of 'agreement' that's made to play the game by the 'rules' we've set in order to have the experiences we are seeking to have. Many many beings seek to have the 'whatever just throw me in there' experience, and these folks are ignorant as fuck as to the nature of reality and will figure it out as they go. Others will have a greater degree of "remembrance" about the material/relative dream and be able to have different experiences within the relative game.