I think sorta did lucid dreaming once. I had an unhappy and frustrating dream and at some point, I said Screw this dream, I'm gonna wake up right now! And did.
Does that count?
What special protections would you advocate to get rid of, out of curiosity?
And yes those problems will unfortunately always be present. But perhaps natural minimization would make it at least a little easier to keep an eye on so it doesnt get so rampantly out of control? Or maybe it wouldn't...
Not through oppression. Just naturally falling out of favor enough in numbers, and losing their institutional grip in government, so they theoretically would be less prone to weilding corrupt power, cruelty, and control over the populace.
Keeping track of and tracking down criminals in...
Well that's a given, but I'm speaking more in terms of if it would minimize the systematic, ingrained abuses of large organized religions that still has way more power then they should, or if it wouldn't do much at all.
Little to no political influence, except where relevant.
Small handfuls of worship buildings scattered throughout the world.
Mostly populated with home practices and small study groups.
Religious clergy and institutions being completely optional.
Do you think it would make it better in...
It bothers me that we can't easily fire dumb, ******* politicians everytime they open their yaps, or try to take away civil rights. Let's make that a law instead.
It's already part of history and social studies. We do not need it being taught in public schools the way the southern states wants it taught. They want christian indoctrination and have made no secret about their intentions. Ridiculous enough the bible belt already treats creationism and young...
Not divinity, but I've heard some practitioners believe that you can do a sort of magical programming in terms of personality and function into an object. I think it's called a magical construct? I don't really get how it works? Either that or something has attached to it.