Thread: Perception of Time experiments.

Well, sorry for taking a long time to get back to you all...but anyways. I've made my dreams seem longer and longer successfully making lucids up to about a month at a time. A weird side effect has occcured that I didn't even think about, it's making my nonlucids longer as well. Now, on to answering some questions. Yes, I have gotten better at elongating dreams by practicing it. Yes, I do enjoy it even though some people say they find the aspects of long dreams scary, and about that...if it was a long nonlucid, nonlucid you wouldn't care, you just might wake up a bit stumbled, and if it's lucid, you either control it well right away and it's pure bliss, or it starts off hard to control but becomes easier, and is still quite fun. On to a note that others may find more disturbing though...as SergSG and ThePieMan said, you do start to find real life more boring. Not consciously mostly, but I find if I look at a clock I think 'oh it's so long before I get to dream again.' People say there would be no point in living at all, but I see it as a great opportunity because I believ shared dreaming is possible and in that way you could possibly live awhile with someone from entirely different area of the world at no cost, instead of just a quick chat. Heck, maybe we could get all of dreamviews to make a village and live together for a month or so xD...Either way, if you're Scared, don't be. It's a dream, and amazing.

Originally Posted by tigerstar186

Well, sorry for taking a long time to get back to you all...but anyways. I've made my dreams seem longer and longer successfully making lucids up to about a month at a time. A weird side effect has occured that I didn't even think about, it's making my nonlucids longer as well. Now, on to answering some questions. Yes, I have gotten better at elongating dreams by practicing it. Yes, I do enjoy it even though some people say they find the aspects of long dreams scary, and about that...if it was a long nonlucid, nonlucid you wouldn't care, you just might wake up a bit stumbled, and if it's lucid, you either control it well right away and it's pure bliss, or it starts off hard to control but becomes easier, and is still quite fun. On to a note that others may find more disturbing though...as SergSG and ThePieMan said, you do start to find real life more boring. Not consciously mostly, but I find if I look at a clock I think 'oh it's so long before I get to dream again.' People say there would be no point in living at all, but I see it as a great opportunity because I believ shared dreaming is possible and in that way you could possibly live awhile with someone from entirely different area of the world at no cost, instead of just a quick chat. Heck, maybe we could get all of dreamviews to make a village and live together for a month or so xD...Either way, if you're Scared, don't be. It's a dream, and amazing.

Great stuff, Tigerstar. Could you maybe be a little more specific about how your dreams seem to last so long? I think this is important, because the dreaming mind is a helluva thing, and there is a chance that you literally -- and quite honestly -- remember, upon waking, that your dream felt like a month, or your dreaming mind has given you a plot line with enough twists and references to time passing that it really seems like much time has passed.

Both of those things have happened to me many times, so I thought it might be worth asking -- in the hopes that you found a way to do this, and can show us how...