the dream...

that was believed to be true.  ever have one of these?  i don't want to sound like the opening chapter to descartes meditations, and i don't want to get all epistemological here; but rather point to something else.

i had a dream last night, where as the dream was proceeding, i was feeling guilty for what i was doing.  i knew this was a dream.  i knew it wasn't happening in the waking world.  and i make this statement because we are then able to get into what constitutes 'real'.  and to just touch base on this; real may be considered what affects you, and that doesn't necessarily have to be the 'waking world'.  my favorite example (even though it is tiring on me) is star wars; a fictional movie, yet has 'influenced' so many in their beliefs.  jedi is a legitimate religion in britain, i'm pretty sure.

back to it...however i was feeling guilt from a dream.  for me this brings up the question; where does this guilt come from? 

because if 'x' where to happen, there would be 'real' guilt.  'real' in the waking world.  that it would effect and affect others.

so where then does this notion of right and wrong, good and bad, ethics 'bubble up' from?  are notions of ethics innate?  internal?  objective?  mind-independent? 

because in my dream, i am under no social pressures.  no external factors.  so moral value coming from 'within', internal, objective, internalism.  just the self.

because what was 'real' was the guilt.  the feeling.  the notion that a wrong was committed.  without the 'judgment' of others.

amitabha...

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