Maybe it works differently for different people, but I found my creativity incredibly limited once I got the control of the dream. It's like everything just stopped and I could do whatever I wanted, but nothing in the environment reacted to the things I did, just stopped working.
Are your other characters still sentient? Or do they go ragdoll?
They just go ragdoll. The whole world just stops generating anything new. It's really weird and I stopped trying to "wake up" within the dream because it just gets damn boring instantly.