re dreams and out of body incidents in article may athos rutgers edu dt cs hub ucsb edu david e goggin writes i d like to get your comments on a question that has been on my mind a lot what morals ethics apply to dreams and out of body incidents in normal dreams you can t control anything so obviously you aren t morally responsible for your actions but if you can contrive to control the action in dreams or do an oobe it seems like a morality applies well i am one of those apparently odd people who can sometimes control their dreams for example i might decide before going to sleep that i want to repeat a favourite dream or dream about a specific place or if i am having an unpleasant dream i can often not always redirect events to something more pleasant i guess i think that the same standards apply in these directed dreams as apply in waking fantasies or real life ref jesus teaching about looking at a woman lustfully being the same a committing adultary when my normal dreams display themes that i would not conciously chose to dream about i take that as a sign that all is not well with my inner life maybe i have underlying tenstions fears that need to be resolved or maybe its straightforward sin in either case the cause needs to be resolved in fact either case is pretty rare i don t often remember dreams that i don t chose to have when i do they almost always tell me something important i also almost never dream in pictures and especially not in colour in fact i ve had precisely one full colour picture dream that i can remember and it was definately spiritually important i tend to dream in sound with the odd blurred image in black and white interesting topic i ll be fascinated to read other responses alison ps just to make it clear i don t do and have never tried oobes i tend to think they are off limits for christians
