No, I try to actively distract surface level thinking:
Is it because a jedi in your past loved you so much you that you started to think you didn't deserve it so you started to hide your feelings, even from the entities in your dreams, because you were afraid it will hurt you if the truth is used against you?
No, Atton playing Pazaak in his head's just a good relative comparison. It can be any game or task, if not a flood of observations about surrounding people. It illustrates the point and explains it with more ease than I likely could so linking it potentially saves time.
Do the people in your dreams start treating you differently when you compartmentalize your thoughts?
They must be, but for how much I can tell that depends on the nature of the dream. Past a point it'd be 'unrealistic' for them to all know my thoughts, but some can.
Are you ever afraid they know exactly what it is you're planning and all of it is in vain so you just give up and simply let yourself be swept away by the dream?
I'm usually not in a position to plan much in dreams, it's more of a reaction to things going on.
What if the director notices that's what you're doing and tries to draw your attention to something? Do you ever criticize the director's artistic sense in your dreams, or does the sense of danger in your dreams dull your impulse to be critical?
I'm not consciously aware of the directing force beyond the presumption that it's using my own thoughts against me.
Do you think it's doing a good job, or would you have improvement suggestion for the director, or the meta-director?
I don't really have a critique for it, it makes the dreams have more going on in one respect but then in the other lucid dreaming's pretty much impossible like that.
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