I just woke up (so sorry about this reply if it's disorganized), and when I read that thread title it jolted back a memory of a dream I had last night in which I was killing people. I didn't remember before reading it a minute ago. This has also been my first murder dream. I mean I have plenty of dreams in which people die, are dead, zombies, ghosts, killed by someone else, etc. I've even had dreams in which I've killed someone who I judged to be 'bad' but that was more in a heroic way. But this is the first time I've dreamed of killing people who hare pretty much innocent and actually desiring to in a Dexter-ish way. I was sort of an assassin, and at one point I was about to kill a person but didn't know if I was supposed to or not. I found myself wanting to kill him anyway for the fun of it, hoping I was supposed to kill him. Then this moral part of my brain turned on and told me I should be more careful, that killing someone is wrong, that person has a whole life of memories and a mind and emotions like I do. That stopped me from killing him but also made me want to kill him more. It's this malicious feeling I get rarely in real life (1-2 times a year rarely), like this terrible anger that gets pleasure from inducing suffering, but controlled and rational. When I do get this feeling it's only a part of me, and another part of me gets really scared and stops it almost immediately, so there isn't a problem.
Whether you judge it to be wrong or not really depends on the feeling you get while doing it and how much you're able to suppress it, even in dreams. I wouldn't jump to say it's definitely okay either. If the dream I described were common then I would be worried, because I don't want to be the type of person who desires to do horrible things. Even if it were limited to dreams, I'd still be worried that my subconsciousness is fucked up, that I am something which I decide through reason is wrong. So maybe you should be worried, or maybe not. If you don't feel the 'desire' to kill but your dreams just involve a lot of killing for some reason, then perhaps there's nothing wrong and your brain just focuses on that for some non-apparent reason. Most of my dreams used to involve bodies of water and I have no idea why. Maybe this is similar, just a random thing your mind wants to focus on.
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