Yes OP, in many ways dreams can be more precious than waking experience - for sure!

Dreams give us the ability to conceive reality without the lenses of delusion that accompany waking consciousness.

For instance - in a very recent dream - i was lucid - and knew i could DO ANYTHING - because it was MY dream....so i decided to put the 'flying test' to test...

Standing there like superman waiting to take off...lol...really i was...saying to myself 'i can fly'...looking up to where i want to fly to...the again 'i can fly'....i felt a lifting sensation but not flight...i considered that i truly needed to FEEL what i was saying...so a 3rd time meant the words 'i can fly'....and i took off...wobbly at first...but then once focus ressumed, as i was very hyper having actually achieved flight!...i was in full control and flying so fast.

My thought at that point was specifically 'We can all do this when awake if we TRULY believed we could'

It was only my belief that during a dream i can 'do absolutely anything' (later on in the dream i made myself invisible to attacking zombies!) that enabled me to fly...yet never having knowingly flown before i still struggled to fly in the dream-world.

We believe we cannot levitate or move items in a waking state....or be invisible...or whatever - so therefore we grant our own limited (belief-system -based) wishes...

Dreams allow us to totally reform our belief system.

The one thing about life i could miss is not life itself, but the dreams i have while existing in this incarnation.

Maybe after this realm we return to a place that resembles our dreams?