Thread: Dream Ethics

Originally Posted by jamous

Somehow I knew that if I was doing something in my dream that was bad my mind would turn the dream against me.

Well, there's your problem. Whatever you expect to happen, will happen. If you don't like this, simply expect the dream to not care about your ethics, and it won't. It's your dream, you can make it do what you want. Never let yourself be convinced that the dream is beyond your control - because then it WILL be.

well said

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Well, there's your problem. Whatever you expect to happen, will happen. If you don't like this, simply expect the dream to not care about your ethics, and it won't. It's your dream, you can make it do what you want. Never let yourself be convinced that the dream is beyond your control - because then it WILL be.

That's obvious. In my case it's more of a spiritual thing. It sounds dumb but I believe it is possible that some of the characters in my dreams are real entities. I don't really believe that, but just in case...
It's also like someone said, it's me, and I feel better if I'm moral even in my head.

it's probably just my recent constant worry of being over-indulgent and therefor sort of sinful or something in that I'm mistreating my life.

I dunno, I'm mostly just too paranoid, haha, even in my dreams

I have always been respectful of DCs, but in a dream a while ago, someone who said they were my dreamguide killed a DC and then brought him back to life, saying that I had to understand that they weren't real.

your lucid dreams are part of your conscious mind, so being a jerk in the dream may affect your behavior in real life. If you have to make fun of somebody in your dream, make it somebody you really hate

Originally Posted by musicman

your lucid dreams are part of your conscious mind, so being a jerk in the dream may affect your behavior in real life. If you have to make fun of somebody in your dream, make it somebody you really hate

I disagree. I think as long as someone has a firm handle on the difference between dreams and reality, your actions in one won't spill over into the other, at least not unknowingly.

Although I personally don't agree with it, I understand the argument that acting immorally in dreams is "sinful" and shouldn't be done, just as you wouldn't do it in real life. If you're going in with that expectation, ESPECIALLY if you're religious, I totally understand your brain punishing you for it right away.

And if you believe in dream sharing and crapstuff like that, then yeah, acting immorally in dreams is just as bad as in real life.

i didn't mean you being sinful in a dream WOULD affect you in real life, I'm just saying it could happen if you take lucid dreaming too far

That idea of people in dreams driving cars are victims of accidents should go in a movie.

Originally Posted by AbyssNess

I have always been respectful of DCs, but in a dream a while ago, someone who said they were my dreamguide killed a DC and then brought him back to life, saying that I had to understand that they weren't real.

God, these dream guides fascinate me. Did you ask it if that meant that it wasn't real either, and you were really all alone?