If you could have control over your dreams at night and make them as real as your experiences in waking life, would you accept such a power?

Have you ever watched 'The Sphere'? Hell no.

I lucid dream alot.  I used to astral project all the time.  It doesn't happen anymore though.  Kinda sad, really.  Ever since i had my daughter i haven't been able to get past the vibration stage.  Oh, and i am your typical, run of the mill, college educated, seemingly-normal small town girl.  If you knew me you'd know i'm not the type to runa round claiming new age out of body experiences or anything.  But i did.  Alot.   Like i said i still lucid dream from time to time.  It's always the same. I always enter through a tunnle of some sort... usually by boat through a plant-covered tunnel of sorts.. but i end up in the same place.  It's outside somewhere...  and there are crystal clear lakes.  There are usually, but not always, people swimming.  Sometimes they are all around me, sometimes off in the distance and i want to get to them but can't.  When i do they're gone.  Once i get here, though, i always realize it's a dream, and can control, for the most part, what happens from that point forward.  I usually "play god" - raise a hand and make mountains raise up out of the ground.  Twirl in a circle and make it snow.  Then i go for a good fly.  At some point i find myself awake but paralyzed in my own bed, seeing the room through my eyelids, and the vibrations start.  I used to go with it.  I can't anymore.  Totally sucks.  Wish i could have it back again.  It was a gift.  I miss it.  

I very very rarely have bad dreams; often I dream of flying and/or learning to fly ...Quite often I have 'rescue mission' dreams that are rather exhausting, akin to leading a band of hobbits through the Mines of Moria, but despite the danger, my influence is always a positive one ...  Sometimes I have nightmares about skiing, in which I am almost at the top of the hill but all the snow is melting!  Or I end up on some skid road that winds back and forth and then by the time I get down to the bottom, the lift is closed ...  Haven't had one of those in a while, though.  Having a good dream about skiing deep powder is the only dream I really miss having. I have dreamt before of meeting up with an old friend and then found out later that the friend had passed away suddenly at this time.   So I don't enjoyed dreaming of other people in that out-of-the-blue way.All those dreams seem pretty realistic to me; I don't remember all my dreams but sometimes I have a very significant dream that sticks in my memory.  The few times I had nightmares (I mean, real nightmares), they were a powerful message directly from my unconscious.  For those reasons, I say NO.  The relationship between me and my subconscious is just fine the way it is  ;.)

Here's some interesting reading, with instructions on how to control your state of vibration (to leave your body):Journeys out of the body-Robert A. Monroe-:Doubleday books.1971

I suffered from horible nightmares starting at the age of seven. It all started when I watched "Alien" when I was seven. I consider it the most scary movie ever, to a seven year old boy. Within two years I was able to control the outcome of my dreams and in later years dream about nearly any subject on demand. I have not had a nightmare in almost thirty years. 

Ive had lucid dreams a few times and overall, while it is an incredible experience, it dosent compared to reality. In a dreamworld you control, there are no real goals, nothing to really live for, it really all is a figment of your imagination. Its a simulation of reality, not an alternative to it. Thats why no matter how nice it is, ill take real life

You betcher sweet bippy I would!  It'd be like being awake even longer, living life even more, but with fewer limits.  That would be really cool.

Lucid dreaming is the ultimate "virtual reality" experience. Like anything else though it can have a good side and a bad side. Imagine being able to do anything you want either alone or with someone else with no limits. It can be a very interesting diversion or a serious addiction. A lot depends on the person having the lucid dreams and their ability, or lack thereof, to control their wants and impulses.

I use a program called Natura Sound Therapy set on delta frequencies coupled with melatonin I induce a lucid dream state every 2nd 3rd night of the week. It's fun to control your dreams and fly down the west coast to san francisco but you do not get a full rest hence doing it 1 or 2 times a week. So my answer is no.

I guess I can see how that would be pretty cool. Like watching a movie or something. Still the cool thing about dreams is not being able to control them. Letting your subsconcious runamuk as it must and informing your concious self on matters and details which you were unaware, using things such as symbolism. This is my Jungian interpretation of dreams anyway.Freud would have said that they are even more random than that.

a bit scary, but too tempting...

To bridle the control of my imagination is not desirable. Dreaming is the only state where exploration runs wild with no boundaries. To limit is to take away the fun. 

my dreams at night used to be so real that I couldn't tell the difference oftentimes between dreams and reality.  This happened simultaneously with deciding to let go of the conscious mind during waking hours to allow the subconscious mind to process on world directly instead of waiting until night.  This was akin to playing with fire, because once it became an integrated part of my life, it changed other things I wasn't expecting dreams taking on a "normal" quality.  But there were also other things.  I kind of backpeddled on that path, it took a while, just like it took a while to get there.  In some ways, we need to use caution when playing with the order of things.  There are probably good reasons for our conscious mind to dominate while we are awake.

I think that I need to have sleeping and dreaming as a time to NOT try to be in conscious control of my experiences. I need a break sometimes!

If I could make my dreams utterly real, is there the risk that I wouldn't care about the "real world"?  Why care about your real-world spouse, if your dream-world spouse was the ultimate in terms of soulmate, deep romance, appearance, kindness, and raw sexuality?