In my personal experience, I found this to be true and ultimately amusing. 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 by dreaming thanks to the ideals of this theory. Another source, Dreamgate, allows us to examine in depth another aspect of dreams: nightmares. While it's possible that the same things that cause dreams also cause nightmares, nightmares are undoubtedly a species of their own. According to Wilkerson, the author of Becoming Nightmare: the Rhizomatics of Dreaming, nightmares provide 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 scarring, but that is not their purpose. Since humans impose very strict guidelines on what is acceptable or normal and what is taboo, people need this inexplicably strange escape in which there are no guidelines. This same idea could possibly be linked to dreams, but Wilkerson only cites nightmares as this source of escape.