Time Control

**Sheddler** · 08-25-2011 02:04 AM

After reading around a bit, I've decided to try to control time in my dreams. When I say time control, I mean extending the dream to make it seem like days have passed.

I've heard from a friend that a very effective way of doing so is to create a portal to the fourth dimension, and go on some sort of device that takes the form of a computer, and you are to put in the time that you'll be dreaming in real world, and the time that you want that to span out to.

Tell me your methods, if you have any, that you are able to expand a dream. (OTHER THAN STABILIZING!)

**Typho** · 08-26-2011 04:58 AM

I only once had this fragment where my dad was mad at me and giving me a lecture. I was lucid, so I affirmed to myself that there was a TV remote in my pocket. I pulled it out and pressed Fast Forward. When i pressed play my dad was wrapping up his lecture, and I got on with my dream.

My friend told me it was like the movie "Click" but i've never heard of that one.

**Sheddler** · 08-29-2011 01:46 AM

Why aren't more people interested in this?

**Puffin** · 08-29-2011 01:48 AM

You can continue to create dream scenarios in which it seems like time has passed in great amounts, but you only have a certain amount of time in REM; dream time is fairly equal to time in waking life, so this gives you a few hours at most to do this.

**DaTechnoKing** · 08-29-2011 04:39 PM

My personal favorite version of time control was in my most recent lucid dream. I focused so hard that I stopped time, and my brain told me by displaying a digital clock face.

But like puffin said, you only have a limited time of REM, so the only plausible way would be to "expect" the dream to have taken several days.

**Mauricio** · 09-07-2011 09:59 AM

Hi, I'm also interested in this subjetc, I'd like to know if it's possible to make the dream feel like several hours or days.

If you could create such device within a dream , I dont think real REM time would matter, you could adjust dream time and make a real second feel like a year in dream time.

Has anyone tried this or something similar? Is it possible?

**Sageous** · 09-07-2011 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mauricio

If you could create such device within a dream , I dont think real REM time would matter, you could adjust dream time and make a real second feel like a year in dream time.

Has anyone tried this or something similar? Is it possible?

There are no actual devices to be made in the dreaming; only metaphors. This is not a bad thing, because if you are able to believe perfectly that your imagined time-dilation machine worked, then perhaps it will. After all, since the laws of physics don't exist in dreams, why should time?

So believe away, Sheddler, and see what happens!

**Dark_Merlin** · 09-08-2011 12:05 AM

The portal, the computer, etc are all just methods of focusing your intent and expectation into an external object to achieve your goal.

I've been experimenting with this as best I can, and created the schemata of a digital watch which I wear on my wrist, which has the ability to dilate time. Whenever I have used this watch, I've set out for the intent of having a dream which lasts two weeks. So far, I have achieved lucids which last for an hour, and I'm continuing to experiment and extend this time further and further. I see no reason as to why you wouldn't be able to extend time to weeks, months, years, but I'm working up progressively.

**Hukif** · 09-08-2011 12:49 AM

Why not alter your perception of time instead? Not really time control, but it feels the same. All I do is focus on the dream by touch of the floor, count from 1 to 60 in second intervals and imagine time "stretching" or my perception being altered as the count goes up, I tend to close one eye though so that the dream won't destabilize.

**Xaqaria** · 09-08-2011 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by Dark_Merlin

The portal, the computer, etc are all just methods of focusing your intent and expectation into an external object to achieve your goal.

I've been experimenting with this as best I can, and created the schemata of a digital watch which I wear on my wrist, which has the ability to dilate time. Whenever I have used this watch, I've set out for the intent of having a dream which lasts two weeks. So far, I have achieved lucids which last for an hour, and I'm continuing to experiment and extend this time further and further. I see no reason as to why you wouldn't be able to extend time to weeks, months, years, but I'm working up progressively.

It is likely that if you experienced an hour long dream minute for minute (with no jumps in time) then you actually had a dream that lasted an hour. Without dismissing the possibility, I have never heard any experienced lucid dreamer claim to have dreams that actually felt longer than their real duration. Sometimes dreams will seem like a long time while dreaming but once you wake up if your recall is good you can go through and remember points at which the dream jumped to a later time, or in which you didn't actually experience events in real time and only absorbed a string of events immediately.