Or that he can fly, and somehow just figured this out?
Figure out how we dream these crazy things that we believe completely (while asleep), and you've taken a big first step. And you've got plenty of available subjects.
I’ve had dreams that seemed so real that I had a hard time realizing that they didn’t actually happen. The brain is an amazing thing!
So, you went to Michigan Tech too?
And all this time I thought it was just me...
Or when I dream about a person that I have known all of my life but had never met before.
I hate that dream.
Those are actually not all that uncommon, I’ve dreamed them myself. I went through a period of years when I was fascinated by lucid dreaming, though, and did manage to take control of my dreams, which could be very amusing up to a point, for instance “remembering” that I could fly by holding my arms straight out, clenching my fists and thinking really hard to will myself up. Sometimes had to jump a bit to get it going but it always worked. But, there was a point not to go beyond when dabbling with this, kind of like staring into the abyss too long and discovering that it’s staring back at you. I stopped doing it, found it disturbing. I think that’s what drove Carlos Castaneda nuts. Merging the dream state and the waking state is ultimately a dangerous thing.