Thread: Would you always behave ethically towards a real life DC in a shared LD ?

The thread title itself that has this vibe of "shared dreaming" being probable is a bit deceptive.

Shared dreaming itself clearly is debatable, and most of the time when I have no intention to "attempt" the presumptive ways of trying to do it, how I behave towards them is subjective. I think it's with any person that you like or dislike, you might want to vent frustration at the dream character so you don't have to worry about trying to attack or insult the person in waking life. Sometimes there's strong sexual feelings that we're too afraid to admit to the other person, so we can use LDing as an outlet for that. And if I'm good friends with that person, or respect them very much, then I would naturally just be civil towards them.

Even so, I'm more of thinking that unless there's an intent to actually play out the presumptive roles of attempting a "shared dream" (keyword being presumptive), I would treat the dream character as a figment of my own imagination and whatever reason my subconscious has for putting them out there. And as for family, which might entice a person to feel it's really "them" in their supposed "shared LD" (probably because there's speculation that familial roots might fit that presumption more since they would share similar biological data, etc). I guess with things flying around like genetics or DNA code or whatever abstract comes to mind to try and make the "shared dream" plausible, people would presume if they dreamed about their relatives, it's more likely that it might fit the presumptive conditions of a "shared dream" if they talked to that person in waking life and things the other relative dreamed about were mostly the same. Especially when people try to contact the lives that have been passed already (and someone that knows the person who died more than the person looking for information on them in their dreams), there seems to be this borderline conflict of wanting the experience to be one where it really could be them, or at least the subconscious' way of making a near-perfect projection of the totality of that relative's character and existence.

Anyway, for me, it's subjective, but currently, I have been letting dreams go on auto-pilot as if I were a person who never knew you could recall and try to find meaning in your dreams in the first place. But before (and hopefully soon), I treated dream characters (the ones who were attractive to me) as sentient beings, and slightly deluding myself into thinking they're separate and otherworldly beings happens occasionally. For me, I'm constantly attempting to connect with aspects of my mind and learning self-love and being responsible for how I react to anyone, whether it's dreaming life or waking life. So my general reaction and behavior will be to be civil and ethical unless convinced otherwise.