Thread: Opinions Please, can dreaming be immoral?

While dreams are not reality and consequences are minimized, it is not devoid of any affect on you. Going against your moral compass will probably affect how you feel about yourself in real life (even if minimally), which in turn may affect your relations with others. One episode may not do much harm but I know I personally prefer to keep my true self whole rather than divided, if you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Rothgar

While dreams are not reality and consequences are minimized, it is not devoid of any affect on you. Going against your moral compass will probably affect how you feel about yourself in real life (even if minimally), which in turn may affect your relations with others. One episode may not do much harm but I know I personally prefer to keep my true self whole rather than divided, if you know what I mean.

yes they are, maybe you should go look up what victimless means? I for one have never been a victim of a thought crime. If it effects you, it was your choice, I wouldn't really consider myself a victim of myself,for making choices I knew the consequences of, and how it would effect my life (in this case not at all). Saying that it will probably effect how I feel about myself and how it effects my relationships with others is just a guess on your part that varies between individuals. If I did something in a dream I was strongly opposed to, if anything I imagine it would strengthen how I feel about that. For example, I would never kill a cat, but if I did so in a dream where I wouldn't feel guilty about killing a cat, and still didn't like it, that is great, I just discovered I really do love cats too much to hurt them. I don't want to guess on too many things, but maybe it is an indicator on how mentally stable you are? Maybe some people are afraid of doing immoral acts in dreams and finding out they like them and won't be able to control their waking life self, but for the vast majority of people they should be able to draw a line between what they like and what is acceptable for both waking and sleeping life, and be able to control their actions accordingly. I for one am not going to limit my one place to be absolutely free to conform to society when none of my actions will have a consequence.