I may wake up and ruminate on "what that means." But I don't get the same sense of "morality."
I don't think we could
really conflate the dream world with objective reality.
I understand what you're getting at here. It's true there doesn't, on the surface, appear to be any kind of objective morality within dreams. But when you say you ruminate on "what that means", you seem to be saying this as though while you
are capable of rumination in
this reality, in the dream world you are not. For the most part things just kind of happen, right? Unless you are a prolific lucid dreamer, there is a sense that we are not in control of our own consciousness in the same way we are in control in this reality. Hell, I spontaneously lucid dream on occasion, and
even then I don't have full control. However, I know for a fact that I have, within dreams questioned my actions or felt bad about something I did that was wrong. So I'm not entirely sold on this idea that dreams are amoral.
Another thing to be said about comparing the dream world to the waking world is that dreams are HIGHLY symbolic. And while we may use symbolism in this reality as well, our actions are our actions. While there may be nuance to our beliefs, thoughts and feelings, we cannot really say the same for our actions. Actions are binary. We either take action or we do not. Actions are not symbolic, unless you're speaking of ritual, but even then it is often the objects used that are symbolic, not necessarily the action itself. So what takes place in the dream world is often not at all what it seems.
For example, someone close to me told me about a dream they had where they were helping their manager from work shovel snow from his driveway. As they're working, his manager hands him a small box and tells him to be very careful with it because it's a very small but very expensive bottle of liquor, that cost him $2 million. But, the dreamer is wearing large winter gloves and fumbles and drops the box, destroying the bottle inside. His manager gets angry with him, and he wakes up.
I thought this was actually pretty simple to translate. There is something in his life, that seems small and perhaps unimportant or insignificant, but is very valuable or precious, and he's not caring for it as he should be. It was up to him, the dreamer, to figure out what this thing was. At face value it's kind of a stupid dream where he, the dreamer, makes a big blunder. But oh well, just a dream, right? Not really. I see it as incredibly valuable information that his subconscious, or perhaps even his "higher self" or another entity is trying to communicate. Highly symbolic, important and full of meaning, even if on the surface it appears to be none of those things.
It's an interesting thought, comparing morality in the dream world to that of the waking world, but as I hope I outlined above, morality seems to require a consciousness that is in control of itself. A consciousness that is aware and in direct control of its own actions seems to be the key. Once again, there we go with consciousness itself being the key component. Action without consciousness
can be and often is amoral. It is the insertion of consciousness that turns the action into either moral or immoral.
Saying reality (or consciousness) at base, whatever that may be, seems to be or is amoral is just backdoor materialism, IMO. It's like, wanting your cake and eating it too. It's saying, yes there is consciousness, yes there is free will, yes there is a spiritual reality but morally, it's a free for all. It's just more "I make my own morals" type stuff that's stinks of convenience. It's basically moral relativism.