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

Let me ask a simple question here: What would happen if you dilated time to an infinity and someone woke you up?

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Let me ask a simple question here: What would happen if you dilated time to an infinity and someone woke you up?

Let's set aside Mzzkc's answer* as just another of his attempts to drown the hopeful fantasies of another innocent soul in the icewater of cold reason, and answer your question:

If you did manage to "dilate time to infinity," which I assume would be the same as creating an eternity, or an endless dream, an odd paradox would happen:

Because you created a world of infinite time, your dream cannot end, so from your perspective you would never wake up. And yet someone could wake you up. So you would never experience being woken up, even after you were awake. Infinity is a funny thing that way. Maybe that's where comas come from?


* All kidding aside, Mzzkc's answer is of course dead-on accurate.