You left out Moses causing his staff to turn into a snake because God told him to.
I meant to quote your lucid dream quote and fucked up, just a clarification.
Have you ever tried hypnagogic hallucinations?
The painter Dali, Einstein, Thomas Edison, among others, all employed this technique for creativity purposes, and it has been suggested that these are responsible for religious experiences, etc.
The idea is that you become so exhausted from not sleeping that your REM sleep gets screwed up. After such, upon immediately falling asleep, your brain goes directly in to REM, sometimes while you are still conscious. Basically, you are awake during the dream state - although it feels nothing like a "dream", it feels like reality complete with all of your senses. It is said that at least 60% of adults will experience this at least once in their lifetime.
Dali would stay awake for days on end, on purpose. Once he got to the point of nodding off, he would hold a metal key in his hand and as soon as he fell asleep his muscles would relax, he'd drop the key and wake himself up. He'd then paint what he saw in this vision (hallucination).
After a motorcycle wreck a number of years ago I was prescribed a fairly benign muscle relaxant called baclofen. This drug can cause hypnagogic hallucinations. I nodded off, was completely conscious and aware that I was just lying in bed, and went in to one of these hypnagogic hallucinations. All I can say is it felt more real than real, or, just as real as this world. Was absolutely insane. I thought I had died.