Thread: Why is "everything", but dialating time possible in a lucid dream

You can't do anything in a dream, you are still restricted by the laws of the real world. The dream world is an illusion that we can manipulate, it doesn't mean everything is possible. Whatever happens in a dream isn't exactly actually happening in real life, it is just us interpreting a series of neurons firing in a certain pattern. You can affect which memories you recall or how the dream goes on etc but there is no evidence to say that you can actually dilate time because it require you to process more information in a shorter amount of time. Just like an old computer trying to play a new game our brain probably couldn't keep up with some of the radical claims members have made about dilating times up to ten or twenty times.

Due to the nature of dreams you can however create the sensation of anything, since it is only a sensation you are never going to do something that isn't physically possible. We are capable of assuming what something would be like and this is what most people do in a dream. If we don't know what something feels like we use existing feelings and memories to simulate it. People claiming that they are "Dilating dreams" may in fact just be creating a false sensation of a lengthy period of time and not actually have a two hour dream in one our time frame for example.

Here are a few examples of other things which are potentially impossible to truly do in a dream.
1) Render an entire scene 360 degrees around you in full detail
2) Occupy and command the bodies individually of 100 people
3) Do maths calculations ten times faster than in real life

All of these things would probably be impossible to do in a dream because your brain just doesn't have enough processing power to be capable of such activities.