Thread: Interesting concept.

There have been several reports of people slowing down time to prolong the lucid dream.

I've never heard of anyone trying to speed it up though. Try a search on this forum for "time" or "slow*" you should find some stuff.

Originally posted by Seeker
There have been several reports of people slowing down time to prolong the lucid dream.

I've never heard of anyone trying to speed it up though. *Try a search on this forum for \"time\" or \"slow*\" *you should find some stuff.

So if they had let the lucid dream play out as it would have it would have been, lets say, 10 minutes.
Then they conentrate half of the dream to slow it down and the dream is then.....10 minutes. LOL

Time and lucid dreaming is fascinating to me. Even if we do not take real time as a referance in your dream, all you have to do is believe it to be and it would, as with anything else. If your mind thinks it to be true at the time then your brain, I would think, would percieve it to be that lenght of time.
Dream Time?!

hmm,

I was more thinking of slowing down in dream time, so like dream characters slow down and events happen slower. like it takes a minute for a leave to drop from a tree. and stuff like that. or completely stoping time, so if you saw a sprinkler the water would just be hovering in midair.

I hadn't though about trying to stretch real time to make dreams last longer, that sounds interesting too.

Ive slowed down time, not in the way you youre thinking about it though (i dont think)


Ive been able to do slow motion aerial acrobatics, that kind of slowing down time.

I highly reccomend it.

This is something I definitely want to experiment with.

I really haven't though much about slowing down time. It seems like it would be tough, but it would be a great acomplishment if I could do it. I think it would be neat to walk through still rain, or a little whirlwind of leaves.

I'V ALMOST GOT THERE! this one time i was in this store & i knew i was dreaming...but nothing was working...'cause everything was moving way 2 fast...so i screamed "EVERYTHIGN STOP!!!!!!" everything freezed....then i turned around & some damn old lady kept on going w/her damn shopping cart!!!!!!!

One time, in a dream, I experienced a shift in Time Resolution. First let me try to explain with a parallel -- do you know how Slow Motion Filming works? They actually speed up the recording camera to take many more exposures per second than in ordinary shooting, but then, when they play it back at the same ordinary rate, it all seems slower, but what is happening is that more information is contained per unit of Time. Well, this is what happened to me in a dream.

You see, this pickup truck pulled up and it was full of these men who were intent upon doing me harm. Well, instantly I felt the slowdown. It was like I became paralyzed, except that I was facing my enemies and saw that they were as slowed down as myself. Usually when this feeling of paralysis occurs, we are in flight from our foes and so we think only ourselves are slowed down, and we don't have the courage to look behind to see that what is actually happening is that we are not slow at all, but only that a greater rate of conscious Moments are being inserted into Time, creating only the appearance of a slowdown, but actually giving us many times more information than ordinary. Facing my enemies, I could see that.

So I decided to attack. Concentrating on getting the most out of each muscle I charged the pickup truck -- it seemed as though it took me minutes to reach it, but in real time it could not have been more than a second or two. I could see the developing look of surprise on the faces of my attackers and knew that they did not have the same Awareness of Time that I did (or they would not have wasted their energy making their faces look so stupid). I started with the guy in the back of the trucks bed who was swinging a chain. running up from the front bumper and leaping over the cab, ducking under the slinging chain I landed a foot in the guys chest and sent him reeling off the back of the truck. I carefully caught my orientation and landed with both feet solidly beneath me in the bed of the truck and then decided to carry my momentum into a back flip toward the two attackers who had jumped out to the side of the truck. I came up and over and landed with a foot on each of their shoulders, and then came through with my fists on the sides of their heads. Originally the driver was going to get out and help his friends, but as I came whipping around toward him, he being next. He closed the door and gassed the truck and away he went in a billowing cloud of dust. When the danger was over, my perception came back to normal.

it occurred to me that the big secret of the Martial Arts is this Loading of Time with a speed up of Data, which, like Slow Motion Filming, tends to make things seem slower only became more information is being pushed through per the same rate of playback. I suspect it happens to everybody when a certain kind of adrenalin hits and that we are often not conscious of having followed that information. For instance, in Real Life I once had a Motorcycle Accident. A Witness to it said I hit the truck that pulled out in front of me, and jumped straight up off of the bike, clearing the windscreen and handlebars, flipped several times through the air, landing on my feet, but forming into a crouched up ball to go head over heels a few times until I was going slow enough to straighten out and run off the rest of the forward momentum. The only thing I remember was the impact and then suddenly running down the road ahead of the accident scene, and thinking, how in the hell did I get here.

Well i havent ever slowed down time, but i have rewound time before. Well i wouldnt say rewound time, but its more like i keep playing the same scenes over and over until they go the way i want it to. For instance, i had a dream about this girl i liked and i was talking to her trying to get her to go with me in my LD, but many times something would keep going wrong, so then the scene would start over as in the part as when we first met. I dont know how i have lucid dreams, but i just do. I have them quite often. Oh yea, by the way i am new on the post so HELLO PEOPLE!!!!!

Hi DJThompson........Welcome to the Forum.

I know what you are talking about. Most people I have talked to have had this experiance as well. It is as if your conscious at some level is not willing to except that outcome, so it recreates the dreamscene until you get it correct.
That would be very interesting opon becoming lucid to replay dreamscenes and see the differant outcomes.

Originally posted by Leo Volent
it occurred to me that the big secret of the Martial Arts is this Loading of Time with a speed up of Data, which, like Slow Motion Filming, tends to make things seem slower only became more information is being pushed through per the same rate of playback. I suspect it happens to everybody when a certain kind of adrenalin hits and that we are often not conscious of having followed that information. For instance, in Real Life I once had a Motorcycle Accident. A Witness to it said I hit the truck that pulled out in front of me, and jumped straight up off of the bike, clearing the windscreen and handlebars, flipped several times through the air, landing on my feet, but forming into a crouched up ball to go head over heels a few times until I was going slow enough to straighten out and run off the rest of the forward momentum. The only thing I remember was the impact and then suddenly running down the road ahead of the accident scene, and thinking, how in the hell did I get here.

That is so true. I have discussed this with my friends in great detail.
One thing I never took into account was adrenaline. For it seems many people discribe tramatic events as if they were to unfold in slow motion.

What I have pondered was something more along the lines of consciously engaging this speed dilation. For instance, you talk of the martial arts and the process. Other atheles have come into the zone this way as well. They somehow have the ability to seemingly slow down events to enable them to pick apart the situation, and in a sense gain better control of it.
Does this really have anything to do with time as we no it or more likely our brain processing the time from it's view point. Does this occur with a lot of time, effort and reslove? To say can anyone reach this vantage point with enough practice? Or do some people naturally have a gift to do reach this zone, time and time again and sustain it as well.
I think this may be what seperates the good from the great.

Originally posted by Howetzer


One thing I never took into account was adrenaline.

It may be difficult to turn on just the right adrenaline. Some Scientific Organization found a man who survived a parachuting accident by gently landing on the ground on his feet. The man thought it was such a euphoric experience, that on his next jump, he didn't even try to use his parachute, and, again, gently landed on his feet. Well, the Parachute Company refused to take him up again. And this Scientific Organization was called in to investigate. They tried having the man jump from a twenty foot tower wearing safety tethers and THAT hurt him more than the parachute jumps without the parachutes. Whatever a deadly jump triggered was not being triggered by merely harmful jumps. The last I heard the man was still jumping out of airplanes and gently landing on his feet. I wish I could remember the name of that Organization that documented this.

....Oh I remember... it was Dan Akryd's PSI Factor Show... here is a cut and paste:

Episode Five - Part One
File #47129: "Free Fall

Written by Larry Raskin
Directed by Milan Cheylov

Emerson, Manitoba, Canada

Although skydiver Peter McGrattan (Albert Schultz) falls 10,000 feet to Earth after his parachute fails to open, he miraculously decelerates and lands safely on his own two feet. The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) arrives to investigate the mystery. McGrattan's physician, Dr. Stafford (Gina Wilkinson), tells the O.S.I.R. that she did not believe
this incredible feat until she witnessed the same thing happen on his second leap. The O.S.I.R's Case Manager, Dr. Curtis Rollins (Maurice Dean Wint), meets McGrattan, who is planning a third jump. Rollins asks him to postpone it until the O.S.I.R. can run a full series of tests.

After the tests and an amateur videotape of McGrattan' s jump fail to substantiate McGrattan' s claims, the O.S.I.R. creates a site to simulate the jump. McGrattan's first jump, in a safety harness to 30 feet below and his second jump without one, show that he has no power over gravity in this situation.

Sure that McGrattan will eventually press his luck and skydive again, Rollins agrees to a third jump, with Rollins jumping as well. McGrattan promises to open his parachute at 2,800 feet as he and Rollins leap from the plane. Fully confident in his unique ability, McGrattan, ignoring his promise, unbuckles and releases his parachute. With both men falling less than 1,000 feet from the Earth, the O.S.I.R. team can only watch in horror from the ground below as Rollins tries to save the man who believes he can defy gravity.

,,,, and the guy lands on his feet.

Occasionally I have had dreams where I am half inside of and half outside of a movie, and I have been able to fastforward and rewind most of the time.

I have only stopped time once in my dream, and it wasn't intentional. I tried to hold it, but it didn't last very long. I think REM likes fast-moving objects to watch.