i really appreciate your response, and you are right it is my own moral sense and knowledge, and at the risk of seeming alittle out there, i must also admit that that moral sense and knowledge is what brought me to these questions. im not saying for sure that these things exists, but since i do believe that things such as aliens, angels, demons, and alternate realities have the possiblity of existing, then if i were to experience something that brings up the question of possibly interacting with something more then myself in my dreams, should i err on the side of caution and exercise some morality? i dont allow what i dream about to leave my dreams, and if i believe that i am encountering another intelligence in my mind, i leave it there. i seperate the two, in my dreams my morality leaves alot to be desired, yet im no fool in knowing that that would not work in reality. but the overall sense i get from the people i talk to in my dreams is that im effecting them by my actions some how. perhaps this all has a perfectly reasonable psychological answer, which i would love. that would free me up to be whatever i want in my dreams. how do i explain it when people in my dreams say to me "have you ever had a dream where you were dreaming but you really werent?"