When I'm in a dream I know what's around me in the dream, I'll know I'm in a dark room or a forest or a beach, I'll know...yet I'm not really there...this life could be like that, it could be a long, dream...and our dreams are dreams within dreams...and so if we extrapolate every lower order (dream, dream within a dream, etc.) of consciousness is less ordered, and so if there is a theoretical higher consciousness to this waking life, it would be more ordered and less disjointed, think "supermemory", in the higher waking plane in which you are currently sleeping in order to experience this dream your memory would be crystal clear compared to this state, as would be your vision, hearing, decision making skills, and even bodily movement and control. If this theoretical higher state exists, if the logic continues to follow, we would also have less mental control over our environment. Lucid dreaming is the ability to control dreams and to be aware that one is dreaming, this can occur in the lower dreaming state of this awareness, but such occurrences are the things of unproven myth, and I myself have never had such an event occur within this state of consciousness, at least I don't believe so. It follows then that if a higher state exists, it would imply less control over reality, which itself would imply that in this current state (the you reading this now) actually does allow for consciousness based reality warping, meaning the myths we've heard of might not be myths, but our subconscious trying to make us aware of the fact that we are capable of lucidity in this "mid level" sleeping consciousness which would in actuality be a dream state that we call the here and now. Please share thoughts in comments.