Thread: Impossible for anyone to do within a dream.

Ok here's my third impossibility:

Stop creating what you are experiencing.

It's impossible to keep increasing your flight speed indefinitely. At some point all your reference points will blur out and you will inevitably lose all sense of movement, most likely being ejected into the void.

^^ Isn't that assuming that your flight is subject to physical laws, which in a dream it decidedly is not?

If you can accelerate indefinitey while disregarding your preconceptions about velocity, it might just be possible to add all the flight speed you can imagine.

That said, what you describe actually sounds pretty cool on its own; I'm tempted to have a go at it!

What about avoiding a reflex? Would it be possible to be extremely cold without shivering?

^^ Now that is a good one. After all, how can you imagine in a dream that you are really cold without feeling the symptoms of being really cold? Seems another one to add to the list!

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ Isn't that assuming that your flight is subject to physical laws, which in a dream it decidedly is not?

In order to have movement, you need to have something to move relative to. It's why people rarely get very far when they try to fly out into space from the earth.

I'd bet $$$ continuous acceleration is not possible, that you inevitably lose all sense of movement.

^^ I honestly wouldn't take that bet, as our waking-life assumptions about physics and the need to have something for your perception to use as a reference for that acceleration (like passing trees, clouds, planets, galaxies, etc.) are very difficult to either shed or at least modify. In other words: good point.

However, the upper limits of your speed might be literally astronomical, perhaps even non-existent, if you allow yourself to imagine the passage of those references in a manner that transcends your waking-life expectations. I think (and anecdotally know) that you can move past that blurring out process you correctly noted to a new level of speed that moves you from place to place (or universe to universe) as fast as you can imagine without losing a sense of acceleration -- as long as you take care to focus on the acceleration, and not the stuff that proves it (if that makes any sense). I'm not sure that you could still call it flight as you are flashing past galaxies, but that might also be the point you are making.

Seeing 360 degrees is definitely possible.

Originally Posted by Eonnn

Being omnipresent - Being present everywhere
Being omniscient - Having total knowledge; knowing everything including future and past events.

Intentionally extending dreamtime, so that the dream lasts hours when only minutes have passed IRL.

Effecting physical reality from within a dream, or bringing an object from a dream into reality.

Also 360 degree vision is pretty difficult.

No, I'd have to say all of those are possible, especially time dilation. I have experienced that myself and so has Hukif. Hukif has dilated time to the point where he has been in a dream for what went on to be 10 years in the dream world, and only a REM cycle in waking life. Time dilation is totally possible.

Originally Posted by OneUp

No, I'd have to say all of those are possible, especially time dilation. I have experienced that myself and so has Hukif. Hukif has dilated time to the point where he has been in a dream for what went on to be 10 years in the dream world, and only a REM cycle in waking life. Time dilation is totally possible.

So Hukif can intentionally do it? if so whats the technique? I would like to do time dilation and although I've experienced it before I could never intentionally make it happen.

Originally Posted by Eonnn

So Hukif can intentionally do it? if so whats the technique? I would like to do time dilation and although I've experienced it before I could never intentionally make it happen.

Yea, he's done it multiple times. I'll PM you the technique a bit later today.

Originally Posted by Sageous

I'm not sure that you could still call it flight as you are flashing past galaxies, but that might also be the point you are making.

I was still flying pretty good for several layers of scale past galaxies. It was when everything just all blurred together into patches of dark and light that began to strobe. The strobe increased until it was just a constant light, a reverse void, where movement was no longer possible. I'm sure there's ways around that, but I still think there's always going to be a conceptual limitation.