Not all sentient dream characters are nice. But they do obey the rules.
If zen is the enemy, what are we fighting for?
Your dreaming experiences are experiences. Because they are self-modifying, they are to be taken more seriously than your waking experiences.
This quote from Myamoto Musashi has always struck me as a book contained in a single sentence.
Making decisions is easy. Building the scaffolding for decision-making is hard.
It is possible for people like me to stumble into a heaven. But it is hard for them to stay.
Have you ever considered the possibility that you could be in a time loop?
An identity is a mobile prison for awareness.
In the dreaming world, the decisions you make are less important than the perspective you take.