Is Fantasy a dream or an escape?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Dreams are understood as the mind processing one's day/life while asleep. Nothing planned about that. By contrast, fantasies are constructed by the waking human mind. There are similarities, surely, but there is artifice in the one and happenstance in the other. Make sense?

Unless you are capable of lucid dreaming. I knew someone who reckoned he could do this, but I remain sceptical.