Morality in Lucid Dreaming

[smoothcriminal1]

Simple question: Do you adhere to any moral standards when you lucid dream, or do you do whatever you want, regardless of how wrong it would be considered in the "real world." Me personally, I haven't had enough lucid dreams to even consider the concept. But I'm sure I would break a few moral rules in my dreams once I start having more.

[bored2tears]

I adhere to moral standards somehow. I made evil creatures to kill once, but they ended up being cute so I didn't kill them. A girl I really liked was trying to seduce me, but I refused to have sex with her since it went against my morals. It all depends on person to person, though.

[ShadowOfSelf]

Fuck morality

[Yosma]

I have a very loose set of morals once I am actually dreaming. Pretty much the only thing I won't do is kill people I know that I like. I'll even do that sometimes if it proves itself absolutely necessary.

[bensh]

I think that the concept of lucid dreaming is to do things that you can't do while awake, part of those things are immoral and I don't think that it should prevent you from doing those things but if its really make you feel bad you shouldn't do it.

[dreamscaper22]

i think because it feels so real that somethings that wouldnt be morally correct you have now got out of your system if you know what im saying

[bensh]

I think i do, do you mean that it felt so real that letting yourself get crazy will result bad feeling? i don't think it will happen because you know its not true but if it does you can stop whenever you want, just remember that all of this isn't real?

[The Cusp]

From what I can tell, the moral code of dreams is the same as what can be shown in cartoons. You can use guild free violence against Robots, Zombies, and Nazis only.

[Neversoft]

Lol, morality in a dream is an oxymoron. Morality stems from not wanting to hurt others, which is impossible in a dream. At least I hope so. I once hurt someone in a lucid dream and they called me a bastard. I replied with "You can't even feel." They admitted it, although they asked me to teach them how to feel, so I left them alone after that and felt kind of sorry for them. Although I don't know why.

[Alucinor XIII]

My moral codes are definitely about the same. I'm sort of a buddhist, in my own way. And I feel that negative actions, regardless of reality, has a negative impact on the person performing them. Even if you aren't actually killing somebody, you are carrying out the will to kill/harm. Its detrimental to my path. However I agree with cusp: evil creatures, non-sentient beings, etc, are alright to harm if it comes down to it. Besides, it makes the dream even more challanging and forces you to be even more creative, I've found. You have a bunch of people attacking you. Sure, you could gun them down, or blow them up...but why not think of something a little more defensive/tactfull. Immobilize them, persuade them, force-push them away, etc.

[Sageous]

Simple question: Do you adhere to any moral standards when you lucid dream, or do you do whatever you want, regardless of how wrong it would be considered in the "real world." Me personally, I haven't had enough lucid dreams to even consider the concept. But I'm sure I would break a few moral rules in my dreams once I start having more. Given that the person doing the stuff in LD's is actually me (and not just a DC of me), and everything I do is therefore a reflection on my self, I tend to follow the same moral compass that I do in waking life. Any other action would be a betrayal to my self, my mores, and my sense of honor, and I don't see much sense in that. Also, for those believers in shared dreaming and such -- if you do bad things to others in DC's don't you run the risk of doing something bad to an actual person (more specifically that person's dream avatar), and not just a meaningless DC? Just a thought...

[Yosma]

Given that the person doing the stuff in LD's is actually me (and not just a DC of me), and everything I do is therefore a reflection on my self, I tend to follow the same moral compass that I do in waking life. Any other action would be a betrayal to my self, my mores, and my sense of honor, and I don't see much sense in that. Also, for those believers in shared dreaming and such -- if you do bad things to others in DC's don't you run the risk of doing something bad to an actual person (more specifically that person's dream avatar), and not just a meaningless DC? Just a thought... I have yet to decide if I believe shared dreaming is possible, but if I was resolute in my belief it still would not affect me. For instance if a real person killed me in a lucid dream I would not be angry at them, So I feel no reason to hold back.

[Ekyu]

It really depends from person to person. My opinion is that it's ok to do some harm, but you shouldn't go to far into it; like torture, rape, killing for fun.. But i think once in a while we just wanna do something 'bad', because it's a new experience. This is just my point of view on this matter though.

[isthisit]

Double standards or what. I'm nice and kind to DCs because I treat them as I would people in real life, yet when I get horny in a dream I get pushy and forceful (I'm not in real life, honest!)

[Radioshift]

This fully depends on whether the dream world is just my imagination, and nothing else, or an actual separate reality that my mind fully controls, in which things that happen actually happen. If it is just my imagination, then the question, to me, would be exactly like asking if I think it's wrong to imagine myself doing immoral things in real life. Which would be no. Even if dreaming isn't just my imagination, what is stopping me from countering the immorality by using dream control to make the DCs actually want whatever I plan on doing..

[Rothgar]

The truth is, it depends. If fully lucid I try to stick with my morality. But when I am only partially aware I am pretty bad whether I want to be or not, I have found. I have molested very young girls, beat up people, conjured women to have sex with them, raped, etc. Thankfully it is not this reality or I would be in prison. Hard to admit but I enjoyed all those experiences, too. So I guess I am trying to figure this out as well.

[samuraixkyle]

I usually don't to an extent. I don't just go around murdering innocent people, but I do things I wouldn't normally do in real life because there isn't any consequences.