It's fun to imagine we can access other dimensions in our sleep but there's no evidence to hint us in that direction. Everything we know about dreams scientifically and experimentally is that dreams are simulated by our brains.
Being attached to our magical fantasies (as fun as they are) bias us away from lucidity. Observing objectively (without those biases) our experience with dream characters, it is apparent that they are simulated.
So if we want to talk about ethical dreaming, let's not muddy the water with fun fantasies.
Here, I am going to define moral behaviour as behaviour that promotes well-being of sentient agents (myself and others) based on the consequences of those actions.
Let's say I kill someone in real life, the consequences are fatal: this person is dead, and this is an immense injury to their well-being and that of people close to them. It's quite obviously immoral.
Now, if I kill someone in a dream, well, no one dies as a consequence. It is the same as a murder in a video game.
The question now would be to figure out what influence this simulation has on my own well-being. We also need to consider that even when lucid, we do not have all our faculties during sleep as we do in waking life, so we are in amoral territory (it's less relevant to talk about ethical behavior if we are less responsible of our actions, and are actually not making any actions but just imagining it).
I'm going to conclude saying, I am in no place to judge the morality of your dreams since they affect no one and arise in ways somewhat less in your control than usual. But, if I find my own simulations are immoral, I might ask myself non-judgmentally if this translates to a pattern in waking life. If yes, then I might address this in waking life. If not, don't start believing you are "evil."
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