Strive for a better dream?

[YOLOisonlyprinciple]

Dream experiences are highly similar to real life experiences, we feel pain, joy, etc the same way in a dream as in real life.
Then why do people only focus on improving their real life?
Why is there no effort in trying to improve your dream?
Wouldnt being able to dream of yourself as a billionaire atleast be 50% similar to leading a posh lifestyle, then cant you agree that if you wish to lead a wealthy lifestyle at least part of it can be enjoyed through a dream.
Or, say you like someone you know a lot. Isnt dreaming of spending time with the person atleast similar to spending time with the real person (provided you know a lot about the person's characteristics)

Im not saying that dreams are substitutes, im saying that it can be complimentary.
Also, dreams require comparatively lesser work because you arent competing with others for money or love..

We try to optimise our experience every single second under a traffic light.
We spend 1/3rd of our life dreaming, but we just let it move on randomly, instead of paying atleast some attention to it and directing them according to the way we want to dream..

Why is only rea life experience given any sort of relevance, shouldnt dreams be given at least 10% of the effort we do to improve our *real* lives?
Shouldnt we strive for a better dream just as we strive for a better future? Or are we simpletons who think things only count if you remember them, so it doesnt matter what you dream because you forget it. Are we that simple minded to say that an experience is just a memory and the importance is not in the experience itself, whether real or imaginary?

 

[QuickTwist]

If you can control your dreams, yeah, sure, why not? I'm not so confident I have that ability though.

 

[nanook]

dreams are where you learn that egoic attempts to improve life by changing exterior facts are delusions. of course objective quality of life matters to a degree. but the continuous demand for idealistic improvements ruins the experience of being. nobody wants to hear that, so people suppress their dream recall.

if you learn about self-acceptance you will eventually have to accept your dream experience, but you can't jump ahead of this development, which occurs in logical layers.

instead you can temporarily idealize dreams and accept only that ideal, but eventually the reality of the dream world will disappoint those egoic ideals and then dreams will recede back beyond the boundaries of your acceptance again. until you truly accept what you already are. if this is enough, dream recall and lucidity can show long lasting improvements.

the idea that dreams can be improved is like the idea that intelligence can be improved. it's not entirely untrue, but it breaks your analogy, as we don't usually seek to improve worldly intelligence any more than we invest in the capabilities of altered states of mind - nor are we even familiar with methods of improving intelligence.

for the most part we seek for information and experience, meanwhile we disregard unflattering information and avoid scary experience and are happy to forget about anything that isn't useful in the escape from what is, in real life and dreams alike.

 

[Pyropyro]

Why not start with your own brand of Lucid Dreaming? I believe your country has something called "Dream Yoga" which you might want to look up.

Personally though, I really prefer not to shape my dreams that much using mundane things like RL status and money. I prefer the old school way of enriching dreams through gorging on various types of literature. Currently, the things I dream are bordering on Lovecraftian and I prefer it that way.