Again, I find it difficult to understand where it is your attempting to place dreams; within the realms of our reality or within some construct, not unlike the prison of control in the matrix.
I disagree that they (our money hoarding overloads) have this degree of power over all of us beyond the methods employed already, especially in the infinity of a dream state which is not unlike a psychedelic or near death experience in its own right.
I am a critical, questioning, open person who has not swallowed the Christian faith even after 12 years of being bombarded with its rhetoric and scriptures throughout my Lutheran education. If anything it made me what I am now; critical of established belief and absolutism. I’m in no way swayed by mental conditioning, and it is in no way infiltrating my unconscious.
I have dreamt before my man, just not for a long time (a few years, two I think) and yet I have many flashes of lucid dreams before the onset of sleep that translate into some manner of perceived meaning. For instance, Dante said he had one of these ‘attacks’ in his kitchen; well I distinctly remember one of these flashes where I was standing in a kitchen, unlike my own or any that I have been in before, and I was on the ground within seconds of realising I was standing somewhere. More as if I blacked out as soon as I saw the scene, yet in no detail as to ascertain an exact.
This is basically what some have described as the butterfly effect. And is like the sketchy Hollywood film by the same name, although much more profound and inexact. We simply switch between lives, the conscious experience of life itself through the eyes of a separate or many perceived individuals. Basically put; whenever your not conscious, your being is somewhere else, living life in some way, shape or form. This is simply because we are all one being, one mind. The only separation is in the physical.
I can also correlate chaos fractal theory into this; where all existence is in a constant ballet between chaos and order, known and unknown, 1 and 0. From this, an infinity of points can be created, all the same essentially, yet all different at the same time. Just like a fractal. You can zoom consistently into one space and you will always see more detail.
This is the universe; the only restriction to this is the 'human' perception of this infinity, which whilst bound to one scale or realm or dimension, the essence of the known, of the 1, whatever you want to call it, you can only see so far in both directions before its seems to disappear completely.
Think the big ‘bang’; was it in fact a starting point? Of course not, how can something infinite begin? It can’t. It was simply contained within a smaller and smaller space to which an outside observer would either not be able to see or perceive as very small. And when anything far away expands at a constant rate, there will come a point where it seems to burst out of nowhere and slow down. This is our view of the universe as it is now, Stuck in a scale that we cannot escape or explore until the event of death or through a metaphysical journey with the aid of psychedelics or during sleep; although sleep is bound still to the pronominal of the known, thus ego and physicality.
To say that our dreams are merely the product of some insidious plot to control our minds on an earthly scale is a closed and unconstructive mindset my friend; although I see and respect your point, I don’t think that those in power, with their lust for wealth and simply more power, would even dream (excuse the pun) of the infinitum that dominates the ‘universe’ and all existence itself. It’s simply beyond their reach. You need only look at religion to see their closed view or perception of what they call reality. But I call a box. They only want to make it appear finite so that you don’t question, you don’t dream, you only follow and believe spouted facts about 'absolute' truth on the physical plane. This is control. Where science is only another means of control, one which constricts the mind further into a system of false parameters, ones to which infinity, chaos and 0 are no longer factors or are attempts at an overall explanation. This cannot happen. The equation moves periodically in a non linear fashion, constantly rehashing the answers to the previous generation into a new facet of the question. Science can show you the method, but it cannot show you the truth.
An anecdote I perceived whilst on a mushroom trip is that every person is just another pronominal to add into the equation, then re-examined with the new material for all eternity; constantly reasserting itself to enrich the wealth of matter in the universe. For matter cannot exist without anti matter which is simply a question. How else could it be? And then it manages to find out, but their are still questions to be answered, and their always will be.
Basically, you must free your minds from this perception of absolutes; take on board the manner of the equation but not the answer itself for it is a mere superficial number. A point on a line.
Peace.