At various points in this article I've referred to how the Palace can satisfy conscious and unconscious needs for power, admiration, and omniscience. Dream 1 clearly illustrates this. This feeling of power comes from several sources: the ability to control the environment much more easily than our real-world; the mastery of technical and social knowledge about Palace that one can share with newbies; and the ability to creatively explore and express one's online identity (for example, through the use of avatars). This last point is especially important. Like dreams, the Palace is a zone where people can identify components of their personality that are not fully expressed in real life. I've heard several people say that they are more "themselves" online than they are offline. Like Chuang Tzu, are we more real in the "real" world, or in the dreamworld of cyberspace?