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Now, dreams have always fascinated people and philosophers.
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If you take a philosophy course, there'll be a couple of questions about dreams
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that you will wonder about. One is "Are you dreaming right now?"
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So, Rene Descartes famously wondered whether the real world doesn't exist.
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Maybe right now it's just a dream. See also "The Matrix."
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And can you be immoral in a dream?
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We do all sorts of things in dreams that are bad. Are these sins?
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And the great theologians and philosophers like Augustine wondered about this,
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can you sin in a dream? I will answer both questions.
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You are not dreaming right now, unless you're asleep but if you're--
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and you can't usually be immoral in a dream. The exceptions are lucid dreams
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where you choose what to dream about, and then possibly you could be immoral