Is lucid dreaming a sin?

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I’ve been wondering about this for a while, when in lucid dreaming, does doing things in the dream count as mortal sins in the real world?
 
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Even in lucid dreams (dreams in which one is aware that one is dreaming), one’s free will is greatly impaired–much more so than one feels that it is impaired. For a sin to be mortal one must have the full use of one’s free will. However, if one goes into a lucid dream from being awake, with the intention to do something sinful, then one has sinned by that intention.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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