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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Re: Responsibility/Consequences in Dreams
- Message-ID: <1hnjn6INN1ra@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:14:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.165657@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- In article <1992Dec23.165657@cs.bham.ac.uk> pxf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Pranath Fernando) writes:
- >In article <16DEC92.00007011.0014@tscc.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> ABLB000
- ><ABLB@musica.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU> writes:
- >>I don't see anything wrong with sinning in dreams, even when
- >>lucid, because your action cannot affect others in any way.
- >>If some criminals could lucid dream, then perhaps they could
- >>vent their "anger/frustrations/etc" that way, and the world
- >>could be a much better place...
- >>Mike Stone
- >
- >Is it ok to 'do all the things we could'nt do in real life' ?
-
- It is perhaps the main reason why people are fascinated with lucid
- dreaming - obviously, because it basically is fun.
-
- As ethics are concerned: I have already elaborated that I think the
- Bible's position of morally equalling thoughts with actions is wrong.
- If you learn to clearly distinguish between the dream world and the
- real world, you perhaps adopt a slightly different set of ethics in
- both worlds. I don't think this wrong.
-
- >If it's peoples 'nature', what people would really want to do - certain things,
- >is it really good for them ?
-
- IMHO, yes. But this probably requires some amount of psychological
- and philosophical studies to figure out...
-
- >Also, if we include in our dreams people we know - and perhaps do things with/to
- >them that we would NEVER think of doing (!), as well as the above questions, can
- >this actually affect them in real life ??
-
- This is a really difficult question. Whether our mere thoughts can
- affect other things is subject of hot research and even hotter
- debates...
-
- I have so far assumed the position that I don't think it is impossible
- to interact with others via thoughts (including dreams) but to really
- hurt them would require more than just thinking of it.
-
- Maybe I'll elaborate further when I find time...
-
- Happy New Year,
- Olaf
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