Krakatoa brings up an extremely excellent point. I certainly sympathize with you and I definitely think that you have the right intentions when you ask that question… but the bottom line of the matter is, where does your manipulation end? Free will is one of mankind’s greatest gifts, and to take that away (even for the best of intentions)… well, it would be equivalent to taking away a person’s individuality, which I think is an incredibly terrible crime. MAYBE using shared dreams would be ok, so long as you stuck to showing them better lifestyles… but in the end, I think that it would be too easy for your good intentions to drive you to unethical manipulation. There are better ways to help a friend in that sort of situation.
As for shared dreaming… well, I cannot tell you whether or not it is real and be 100% sure. There are accounts I’ve read that seem to support its existence, but I refuse to say definitively whether or not it’s possible until I either see some concrete results or I experience it myself. That being said… I certainly believe in the possibility, and I definitely won’t let discouragement get in the way of my trying to induce one. To me, shared dreaming seems like waaaay too cool of a concept to just ignore.
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