how long can i lucid dream TRULY last for??

**forestdreamer** · 10-28-2012 01:09 AM

alright everybody... just like the title says how long can a lucid dream TRULY last for and not real life time. like how long it feels IN the dream..and also how long is your longest and describe the dream..come on guys dont be shy i wanna here everybodys answer

**UcouldBdreaming** · 10-28-2012 03:42 AM

i had one that felt like about 45 minutes in the dream first i tryed to fly then dicided to do some astromony it was so cool i teleported to somewhere were the stars were so bright and i could see all the planets it was like i could zoom in on everthing at once. the problem i find with long lucids is your dream controll tends to eb away until you are no longer lucid

**Matte87** · 10-28-2012 07:55 PM

Had one that was 20 minutes or so I thought, I lost half of it because it was too much to remember. 10 minutes is a very long time though and I've had one or two of those. Also some claim they've been in a lucid dream for days.

**sramsay12** · 10-28-2012 11:36 PM

My best one was four hours long and incredibly vivid and stable... I was only woken up by my alarm so who knows how long it might have lasted... It was preceded by (and, sadly, followed by) a dry spell of several weeks

**randosity** · 10-29-2012 06:00 AM

I once spent about 6 months in a dream. I wasn't lucid, but it was very vivid. Time was passing the same way it does during a movie. I seemed to skip between important bits, but it still felt super long.

The longest lucid i've had was maybe 15 minutes.

**HawkeyeTy** · 11-02-2012 04:05 AM

I spent 7 years in college in a regular dream once, it truly felt like 7 years, like being awake and trying to remember snippets of the past 7 years.
Strange feeling, it is, when you wake up to find out you were dreaming and it felt so long.

**faceonmars** · 11-02-2012 01:47 PM

Lucid dream time is equivalent to real world time. Studies have shown this and my own experiences have informed me of this. With that being said, anyone who tells me they were in a lucid dream for days had better have been in a coma.

**Matte87** · 11-02-2012 01:59 PM

You don't dream when you're in a coma faceonmars

Also like I said, their perception of time might have been distorted. The sun going down and loss of memory might give the impression they've been in the LD for an entire day.

**faceonmars** · 11-02-2012 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Matte87

You don't dream when you're in a coma faceonmars

Also like I said, their perception of time might have been distorted. The sun going down and loss of memory might give the impression they've been in the LD for an entire day.

I have had 100's of lucid dreams. They are notoriously short and incredibly detailed. There is quite a difference between vivid dreams and lucid dreams. I agree that in a regular dream, vivid or otherwise, the perception of time might be distorted. However, in a lucid dream it is not.

**Supernova** · 11-02-2012 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by faceonmars

I have had 100's of lucid dreams. They are notoriously short and incredibly detailed. There is quite a difference between vivid dreams and lucid dreams. I agree that in a regular dream, vivid or otherwise, the perception of time might be distorted. However, in a lucid dream it is not.

You can't say that's the case just because it's never happened to you.

**faceonmars** · 11-02-2012 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Supernova

You can't say that's the case just because it's never happened to you.

I also can't prove that aliens do not visit certain individuals in the middle of the night. I can simply theorize, through my own experiences and the experiences of others, that that probably is not happening.

**Supernova** · 11-02-2012 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by faceonmars

I also can't prove that aliens do not visit certain individuals in the middle of the night. I can simply theorize, through my own experiences and the experiences of others, that that probably is not happening.

Ok, look, I can understand where it might sound like that statement is leading. Point is, however, that if one's perception of time can easily be distorted in a non-lucid dream, there's no reason it shouldn't be possible in a lucid dream for time to be "compressed" - figuratively speaking - in the same way. We're not dealing with many absolutes here.

**dms111** · 11-02-2012 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Supernova

Point is, however, that if one's perception of time can easily be distorted in a non-lucid dream, there's no reason it shouldn't be possible in a lucid dream for time to be "compressed" - figuratively speaking - in the same way.

Time can appear distorted in non lucids because our dumb dreaming selves aren't able to pick up on all the obvious clues. When we wake up it's easy to spot the memory gaps and false memories. In a lucid dream we are aware and can spot these clues. If you're being led around by false memories in a dream I would hardly consider that dream to be lucid.

**Matte87** · 11-02-2012 10:06 PM

If you need to be 100% clear headed, able to think properly and not let any kind of dream logic take over for it to be a lucid dream, then atleast half my lucids must be called non-lucids.

Recall gaps and dream logic can still take over in your lucid dream. it might even be so that you start off the lucid with the idea that you've been in it for 10 minutes already, it's happened to me atleast twice. Real dream time when you're paying attention to it, counting the seconds, is just like real time.

**TheSHM** · 11-03-2012 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by faceonmars

I have had 100's of lucid dreams. They are notoriously short and incredibly detailed. There is quite a difference between vivid dreams and lucid dreams. I agree that in a regular dream, vivid or otherwise, the perception of time might be distorted. However, in a lucid dream it is not.

I just might be a natural lucid dreamer (been doing it by accident for years, and when I've finally been able to control, have I been able to control it!) and you seem to be on the right path- in one dream, I just sat there, counting the time, and it went on for 21 minutes and 33 seconds before everything just went blank and I woke up.
Although, to supernova, you also might be right. In another, I watched time chunks from 16:64 AM to 193:7742 PM to, in a retelling of a sepeate dream, 0 AM to 4 XM (the X probably meaning time didn't exist)
So time distortion can exist in lucid dreams very well.

**AURON** · 11-03-2012 03:13 AM

Maybe an hour or so...I'm pretty sure at some point it was a DEILD, but I never felt my body in bed...I was just in the void, and then all of a sudden things started forming again. Believe it or not, sometimes I hate those dreams because I think I'll forget them. Then when I wake up and write them down....I'm still in the dream during a FA ><

As for how long they can feel? I've had non lucids that had everything so sped up that I saw people born and die right before my eyes. Lucid wise, I'm pretty even with how much things feel vs. waking life.

**Matte87** · 11-03-2012 10:11 AM

Technically, if you can stay asleep during an entire cycle at the end of sleep, say around 8-9 hours into sleep, you'll have more than 1 hour worth of REM time. I guess around an hour or a bit more would be the limit.

**forestdreamer** · 11-05-2012 04:10 AM

alright guys ill give you my opinion..for all the people that say lucid time is equivalent to regular time..i couldn't disagree more..its in your mind yes but ik you can be tricked by false memories and time gaps .. but personally with one of my lucid dreams .. i was in the dream for probably for around fifteen min. i had woken and it has only been five min.. how do you explain that then?

**Mancon** · 11-05-2012 11:41 AM

I would say the maximum is an hour or two. Lucid dreams can feel longer/shorter then how long they actually were in real life. Some people claim that their lucid dream lasted for a day when in reality it had been 15 minutes. Time can be different in dreams. Hope this helped!