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

Pretty much everything that tranquility trip has said comes straight out of einstein's theory of relativity. We experience time as he's talking about everyday like with the gps clocks. As well as all 4 of the dimensions that he has mentioned as they are all bound together. Im not sure how to link you to something supporting this but its not too difficult to find if you google the theory of relativity and time as the fourth dimension.

Hey doesnt it also say in his theory somewhere that if you could travel at the speed of light that time would stop for you or go backwards compared to others not moving at the speed of light?? This feels like its probably a dumb idea but maybe you could try using this idea somehow in a lucid dream...wait nevermind I guess this would only make it seem like time dilation would have happened. Nevertheless maybe a possible starting point perhaps?

Originally Posted by rastro13

Pretty much everything that tranquility trip has said comes straight out of einstein's theory of relativity. We experience time as he's talking about everyday like with the gps clocks. As well as all 4 of the dimensions that he has mentioned as they are all bound together. Im not sure how to link you to something supporting this but its not too difficult to find if you google the theory of relativity and time as the fourth dimension.

Yes, as I told Tranquility Toad already, all his examples were valid and familiar to me. I also told him that they tended to illustrate the "non-existence" of time by pointing out how time is uniquely changeable, thus lacking the inherent stability of all forms of matter and energy. I was looking for specific experiments proving time as fourth dimension; I'm sure that I can google explanations of it easily, because time has been known metaphorically as the fourth dimension at least since Newton, and there will be plenty of folks describing it as such. No, I was looking for the mentioned successful experiments proving that time exits as a separate and somehow connected physical fourth dimension, and that unfortunately is far beyond my feeble search skills.

Hey doesnt it also say in his theory somewhere that if you could travel at the speed of light that time would stop for you or go backwards compared to others not moving at the speed of light?? This feels like its probably a dumb idea but maybe you could try using this idea somehow in a lucid dream...wait nevermind I guess this would only make it seem like time dilation would have happened. Nevertheless maybe a possible starting point perhaps?

Not such a bad idea at all, I think! Yes, you'd need to set yourself as the observer of an object exceeding the speed of light -- as if you're waiting for it to come home -- and attempt to experience its passage through your time, if that makes any sense. But that part might not matter, since the expectations woven into such a concept might be enough to separate yourself from the constraints of your internal clock. Might be worth a shot!