professional bad example

i had a lucid dream that tried to pull the whole "okay but if you want X you first have to do Y which requires you to do Z etc etc" number on me that's so easy to lose lucidity over and just refused to play along. i'm so proud of myself. which probably sounds silly, but even a conscious dreaming mind is so irritatingly easy to fool sometimes.

basically i need to make sure to always tell dream characters to do X now and shut the fuck up if they start talking about Y or Z. being nice to them is a stupid idea, who even came up with that bullshit.