Okay, Dthoughts, let's skip the crap, and look into this ourselves! One big "but" must be mentioned, though, which I think separates your experiment from Mylynes' themes:

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Here's a hypothesis about splitting awareness; Splitting consciousness is a form of energy manipulation. You can only split your consciousness as many times as that energy allows you to (we'll call it energy in this experiment, we do not know what energy actually consists of, atleast not yet).

I suspect splitting consciousness actually will feel like you are cutting into an organic body. In my experience which was brief and wasn't very lucid, having multiple awareness is like playing a video in split-screen but weirder because there is no actual screen. And no players.. that is the weirdest thing. Who is doing all the playing?
I think what you're saying here is that you can split your consciousness multiple times, into smaller and smaller pieces, but by asking "Who is doing all the playing?" you are conceding that all the while there is still a singular self-awareness doing the splitting, and then viewing and maintaining all those consciousnesses.

Okay, that sounds fine, and quite doable. I've encountered dreams from several locations at once, or different dreams simultaneously, and I have a feeling that it might happen accidentally in anyone's NLD's on occasion and in mentally unhealthy people quite often, simply due to occasionally "crossed wires" that pile schemata on top of each other. So by that measure your experiment seems sound, and well worth attempting. But:

It also sounds like you're leaving intact the one part that Mylynes implies he splits, and actually must split in order to dilate time (which I think was where this was being used): self-awareness. As you may have said somewhere above, though it is quite similar to natural awareness, consciousness is different from self-awareness, and I agree. But in order to dilate time, wouldn't you need to split your self-awareness multiple times as well as consciousness, essentially creating a whole bunch of fully independent "you's?"

Of course, doing so would only make time move at its normal pace for a whole bunch of unique people, with no cumulative "slowing," because there can be no overriding "You" to appreciate all your little "you's" experiences. There can't be, because if you retain your self-awareness, then you did not split it out multiple times. There can be only one "You," no matter how many DC "sensors" you've got working for you, in no matter how many dreams. Why? Because all that stuff is being driven by one mind, one brain, and that mind in its totality is you -- self-awareness is the acknowledgment of that totality.

So, in order to split self-awareness, you would need to create separate entities, all of whom believe whole-heartedy that they are the unique individual occupying this particular mind and brain, that the entire dreamscape they purvey is theirs alone (and yes, this has reportedly happened in advanced cases of split-personality schizophrenia -- but I assume neither you nor Mylynes suggest we go there!).

I'm not sure that made sense, but let me quote Louai, because he hit it right on the head in six words:

Splitting awareness is impossible psychologically. Period.
... and splitting self-awareness, I think, is what Mylynes was talking about -- just like Naruto does it in the cartoon.

So I recommend that everyone try Dthoughts' experiment -- and please report in your results! It's well worth doing, and can only help you in your dream control skills. I like the carving the energy image as a nice working metaphor for getting started, but just imagining yourself in more than one place at once is a fine place to start as well.

And again, though splitting your consciousness is an interesting experience, it is by no means splitting your self-awareness, and will have no significant impact on your perception of time.

I advice you to try this for yourself and notice how incredibly difficult it is to accurately translate these sensations in words.. It is astounding, no wonder Mylenes is not taken seriously. It is not that he is lying. It is just that words fail to accurately convey the truth.
I'm sorry, I'm not buying the "he's just too advanced and mystical for words" argument. Mylynes is offering this as a tutorial, not a memoir. If he couldn't find the words, then he shouldn't have announced he was going to do a tutorial. And for what it's worth, the "too advanced for words" mystical excuse is usually used when mystics say nothing about their experiences (because they literally can't), and not when they present clear narratives of them.

Also, any advanced process or exploration in LD'ing is incredibly difficult, though if you are simply talking about splitting your consciousness, or in a sense multiplying your points for perception, I can think of several things that are a whole lot harder

To test this hypothesis of mine we could simply have different lucid dreamers of this forum perform the task of splitting consciousness into as much sides as they can and report to us any sensations and detail for further analysis.

^ It is that easy.

WN: How exactly do you begin dilating time in a lucid dream? ]

Like i said, i can think of ways to prove time dilation in a scientific fashion. Just takes a little creativity, what we need now is lucidity. Together we can move mountains in terms of lucid dreaming research. I really hope someone besides me is going to try splitting awareness in a lucid dream ;
Sounds good; let's see what happens!