We dream every night, all the time.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.