Could you give a link to some, please?
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ma...reward&f=false

I agree, but the inverse is true. Subconscious desires don't make up the totality of us either.
Could you expand on what you are getting at? I'm not making the connection.

I'm not against violence in games or films, as some of my favorites involve violence. I think it is interesting that I take pleasure in some fantastic depictions of violence, however, and it's certainly worth investigating and asking why. If one is trying to perfect oneself, or lead a more perfect life morally (which may or may not be the case for anyone here) then I don't think taking pleasure in violence helps. If anyone can suggest how it does, I would be interested to hear it.

The problem with lucid dreaming, splodeymissile, is that we as dreamers do not have a perfect understanding of the dream state. While we are awake we think we do, but in the dream it is a different story. We often slip back and forth between lucidity. One can read numerous examples of dream journals depicting dreamers beating dream characters in frustration and rage, even though they "know it's not real." Really? That sounds like the brain is having an incredibly negative experience, and one that is creating new (and not positive) neural pathways on how to respond to similar situations.

Also, about not changing our nature. I think that is inherently untrue--consciousness is changing all of the time. It experiences, and as it does it learns and integrates. Every thing we choose to do changes us in some way. To say video games (for example) have no effect on consciousness, and have no effect on brain waves and thought patterns (because that is what it would mean to not change our nature) seems to suggest that these activities happen in a vacuum where consciousness is safe from contextual influence. Which I think is incorrect.