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      Quote Originally Posted by gab View Post
      Is the morality center shot down while we dream?
      The morality center, if there is such a thing, would likely be shut down during a regular, non-lucid dream, but NOT during a lucid dream. All your morals, your sensibilities, and your general regard for yourself and others is intact and available, because you are fully self-aware in a lucid dream.

      This doesn't mean that you can't do what you want to do in a LD, but it does mean that any decision you make reflects upon your true self, and is not happily lost to some nebulous "it was just a dream" excuse. If you are lucid, then you are aware and, right or wrong, the shit you do should matter, if to no one else, then to you.
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      It's strange even though I'm in a dream I still have the same amount of decency as I'm awake. I'd think after being able to LD I would have convinced myself dream worlds have no real link to the real world, but somehow morality goes over and I hesitate to pull triggers often lol. There's a lot of stuff I want to try out like Agent Smith's stab in the chest and make a clone trick, but I don't think I'd be able to get to use it

      luckily in most situations the hostile/passive line is never uncertain in most of my dreams, its usually just monsters + mobsters and friendlies, no drama. Passive LD'ing isn't as fun as hostile LD'ing

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      Personally I don't think it's a huge deal if someone goes around hurting DCs, though this sort of disinhibition is a little unsettling.

      I view DCs as extensions of my own psyche, and therefore tend to treat them with a degree of respect. But I have no problem pulling out a few weapons when a dragon rears its ugly head.

      To each his own, as they say.

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      Every time i kill someone or even attempt to the dream police come after me and fuck me up into consciousness. Sucks to have morals.
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      [QUOTE=Ellusiion;1905327]Every time i kill someone or even attempt to the dream police come after me and fuck me up into consciousness. Sucks to have morals.[/QUOTE]

      No, Ellusiion, it doesn't.

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