deschainXIX wrote:Leave your response to these questions below. Give your answer, reasoning, argument, whatever else you want.
-Is it ethical to kill or torture people in a lucid dream? What if you know the person you're killing in real life?
-Is it ethical to have sex/ be intimate with a dream character? What if you have a girlfriend/boyfriend in real life? What if the sex isn't consensual?
-Is it ethical to steal money or possessions from a dream character?
-Is it ethical to possess a dream character (or use mind control. however you want to phrase it) and force them to do things they do not want to do?
-Is it ethical to enslave dream characters?
When you answer the questions, try to come up with other ethical questions concerning lucid dreaming.
I believe that its okay to do whatever you wish in dreams but that being said, I do believe it can impact us spiritually and energetically by attracting like energies to us eg if we enjoyed raping someone in a dream, I believe we take that energy on more. Do it too much and you could end up being drawn more to doing it in real life. So I believe there could be psychological impacts on what you do too in dreams and certainly your thoughts carry spiritual repercussions.
If you are an ethical person (by that I mean someone with empathy) it is hard to do any of those things in a dream without repercussions in the dream or even waking up with guilt. Even if you know it is the perfect crime, you also know that you feel guilty and it can ruin the dream.
I agree with HAGART thou. Thou I believe its fine to do as you wish in dreams, Ive seen myself how my own ethics can come into play in LDs
eg during one LD I decided to just take "steal" as it was another's fridge, a banana (or it may of been a glass of milk) out of it. I ignored the DC in the kitchen with me as she's only a DC right..well yeah I thought there would be no reaction from her at all as I thought it was completely okay to do this in a dream, so didnt even think of it as being stealing by taking something out of someone elses dream fridge as I own everything in my own dreams dont I?).
To my shock when I opened the fridge door and went to take the banana/glass of milk out of her fridge, she spun around and sharply goes "What do you think you are doing!!!" She shocked me into a state where I was then trying to defend my action and told a lie to her. Now to doing that.. again lying goes against my morals... my nose then started to grow like pinocinno and to make matters worst, I then got my long nose stuck in a door while trying to get away from that DC.
She took great enjoyment out of my pain and me being stuck there.
Anyway.. not a pleasant LD but a very interesting one, just cause I got hungry during a LD and decided to take a banana/milk out of a DCs fridge. I suggest for others to try this "taking" from others exercise if you do truely think it is okay to steal in a dream, ones subconsciousness obviously doesnt think it is such a good idea.
Goodness knows what would happen to me in my LD if I decided to try to rape some drop dead gorgious guy in a dream. (Police would probably show up and beat me to a pulp or something). Actually that idea now has me fascinated, how would my subconciousness respond??? Maybe I will try to rape some hunky DC just to find out.