Altering The World, by sheer mind-power Options

I just wanted to open up a discussion on this topic. It recently struck me that if we can create/destroy so easily on the astral plane then we should be able to do the same thing here, and with the same tools; your mind. I've been on a philosophy book binge lately and my elementary thought processes brought me to the conclusion that if life could simply be an illusion in our brains, if we view it as such then we can lucid dream in the real world. I put this in here because I wasn't sure what forum to put it in and I wanted to see if people thought it would be possible to make the world into a dream that you can alter at will. Opinions?

Greetings Ethereal Sight,
I've moved the topic here as it is best served here...
The Astral Plane is a very 'plastic' environment. Your thoughts, if strong enough, will start to take shape, surrounding you. They are by no means permanent...yet. Archtypal thoughtforms and an actual reflection of the everyday world (the physical) is what is usually see n there. The 'destruction' that you might be refering to (I'm not sure) is either the loss of control over your environs or your disinterest, or the result of strong feelings of destruction brought about by any number of mental states...(ie nightmares, etc.) The Astral is comprised of a number of different levels. There is the (to be rather general) Lower, Middle and Upper Astral. All of this is based on a variety of belief systems... You will have the close reflection of the Earth as we see it or the Middle world. Here you will find an abundant host of things/denizens...some that populate from what we call fairy-stories/legends, etc. Superimpose on this the 3 levels I mentioned earlier. The Lower Astral is where we find the cast-off thoughtforms of bad/good habits, strong emotional happenings and generalized 'trash'. The Middle Astral has in it things that are more permanent in nature, things formed by the physical reflection and archtypal constructs. The Upper Astral has within its boundaries all that is closer to higher 'spiritual' concepts, etc. I've totally mangled this but the flavor is still there. On top of all of that is the personal astral bubble that surrounds everything with conciousness. (Don't beat me up on this Membership! There are MANY ideas about this, I'm generalizing...uck!) When we first learn to conciously adventure forth into the Astral/Mental realms we find that we tend to anthropomorphize ourselves into this new medium. Until you 'powers' of concentration improve, this image has a remarkable tendency to 'unravel' when we lose attention on it. You can actually watch your hands/feet vanish! You aren't really losing them but your mind is off thinking about something else... As I stated earlier, the Astral is relatively plastic...it assumes the shapes impressed upon it. Which may be the reason that in some Eastern thought that this is all an illusion. There are some very fine dissertations/teachings about this in a number of Eastern philosophy texts. I've read some very heavy things in Buddhistic writings...I still don't quite 'get it' but I'm working around to it! The short lesson in Astral layout is necessary to show you how much farther than 3-D our existance is! It is also stated in many Hermetic writings - That which is above, is also below....or close variation. Side note completed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)