In my personal experience, I have found this to be true and ultimately funny. If I realize I'm dreaming and don't wake up, I take full advantage of the lack of logic or inhibition. I can fly. I can sing. I can rob a bank. Everything can be done while dreaming thanks to the ideals of this theory. A different source, Dreamgate, allows for an in-depth look at a different aspect of dreaming: nightmares. While it's possible that the same things that cause dreams also cause nightmares, nightmares are indisputably a species unto themselves. According to Wilkerson, author of Becoming Nightmare: the Rhizomatics of Dreaming, nightmares are an important escape, gaps are generally unimportant, and the removal of bodily limitations in dreams is priceless. Wilkerson emphasizes the fact that nightmares are meant to be an escape. Yes, they are often terrifying and sometimes leave scars, but that is not their purpose. Since humans set such strict guidelines about what is right or normal and what is taboo, people need that inexplicably strange escape where there are no guidelines. This same idea could be linked to dreams, but Wilkerson only names nightmares as a source of escape