Stopping Time

[Lightningchild88]

I recently read in an article about slowing down time in your dreams... ""Stopping real time in your Lucid Dreams means making the Lucid Dream last far more than the time passed by in the physical world. Like having a dream that last a few minutes in real time, while you might experience it as a few days in the dream. By doing this can you enjoy the dream scape a lot more, since you can spend days in the dream while it really just last a few minutes. Robert Monroe even reported experiencing 100 years in a 2 hours OOBE. But to experience this might be difficult, little research have been done on this area. And those that experience it don't consciously try to have them. Still, there are a few techniques you might try. First of all, set your intention to stop real time. Have that intention in mind while having your Lucid Dream. Picture yourself being in the dream for days, maybe even weeks before you wake up. You might try to saying out loud: "Stop time now!" You can try looking at your clock in the dream, and imagine that the clock slow down and stop. You might try to expect the dream to last for days. You might try visualize two pyramids, connected at their bases counterrotating. And maybe visualize multiple pyramids rotating inside each other all rotating. This is something worth going for, as it may give you incredible long Lucid Dreams."" So i'm curious has anyone ever experienced this, or something similar

[Gothlark]

I tried to have time dilation in an LD before and wound up in what at least seemed to be a month of lucidity in one night. The night after that I managed to have what seemed to be a week long LD. Just last night I had one that seemed to be three days but I didn't go lucid until the third day. It seems that the deeper your brainwaves are when you decide to try time dilation (and of course how hard you try) decides how much time dilation you get. I was only even trying for a month of time dilation that time I got a month. I should try for more some time. Of course, it may just be the illusion of time. It's tough to say.

[Lightningchild88]

Ok, but if you spent a month in your dream. Wouldn't you have felt kind of "jet lagged" when you woke up. That a month hadn't really gone by?

[Gothlark]

Not really. Some how I was able to adjust to things quite naturally. Keep a detatched observation of it.

[Rakkantekimusouka]

Lucid or non, my dreams don't even seem to last more than an hour, maximum... Any tips, Gossu-chan?

[Gothlark]

Originally posted by Rakkantekimusouka Lucid or non, my dreams don't even seem to last more than an hour, maximum... Any tips, Gossu-chan? I suppose the best thing to do would use hypnosis to plant suggestions that it will happen or to induce it with dream control inside of the lucid itself. I believe you have a difficulty with hypnosis but do meditate, so instead of hypnosis, just plant your suggestions in a deep meditative state. Something like, "My dreams will last one day for every 5 mins. real time." Or, "I will remember a dream tomorrow morning that lasts 5 days." You could of course add in some suggestions of lucidity if you like. If you're in the dream then just expect that, "Beyond this door will lie a dream that will last for 1 year before I wake up." or something like that. That's about all I can think of, I guess.

[Yume]

For a minute there I thought you really meant to stop time which is almost impossible unless everything ceased to exist.

[Jawon]

prolonging lucid dreams to the point of a month or even a year to me is an amazing concept! is 100 years even possible. so lets say you do experience a ld which lasts for 100 years do you during that time span go to sleep within the ld or stay awake for one hundred years? i suppose this is where false awakenings would occur.. you fall asleep and enter a deeper brain wave/level and awaken into the first lucid dream .. just because your lucid should not mean your mind does not need a break from reality; whether this reality is the waking state or the reality of the lucid dream environment does it?

[Vector]

i have done it but its just what i feel... i dont really know what to explain because when traveling, you go like super fast, i dont well.. i remember hwat and how it happend but i dont remember the time it took for me to get there.. so i guess i have spent more than one day, but not for certian....

[TheUnknown]

ahhh.. it was robert monroe who spend the century in a dream.. Well, when i was at my peak in skill, i would stay in LDs for weeks.. a few even months.. and an epic one that lasted over a year. I've written about it on the forums elsewhere.. i think i called it The City.. truly amazing.. and I wish i could visit there again, i grew really attached to the place. To tell you the truth.. your memory is compressed sometimes by it.. but if you are VERY good at recalling.. you can recall every moment. You don't really feel jetlagged, yet there is a sense of forgetting what is real for about an hour.. and many times you will get very emotional. I cried once... when i relized my "friends" i knew for so long werent existant anymore. These time compressed dreams, they play out differently then traditional LD's.. you ARE aware you are asleep, you lose all attachment to your sleeping body though, I noted the realism on these is by far among the best. While in regular LDs, you seem to make things less complex at times.. (look at electronics if you don't believe me), in these compressed LDs, everything is VERY real and very detailed. There is usually not alot of dream control.. like you control yourself, and you might have some limited abilities, but it appears the longer these dreams last, the more they appear like real life. I mean.. i was not normal by any means.. i am taller, slimmer, and more muscular in my dreams, with a very tired looking face, a sharp gaze that are NOT my eyes, almost always sunglasses and black clothing (stuff like capes).. i carry either a swordcane, a gunblade, a gun, or just a sword... always, unless i am transformed into a falcon, in which case i'm a bird. I've not been able to get a compessed LD since i relearned howto LD.... i'm gonna point my finger at about a month before i can pull it off, unless i master meditating.

[Lucky27]

So, if you spent a year in a dream, maybe even a few months; is your memory of things that happened 'two weeks ago' in the dream the same as you remember 'two weeks ago' in real life? (sorry, i totally can't think of a better way to word this.) Or do you remember more, or less? As time goes by, peoples' personalities change with the knowledge they gain, at least mine does, I act different now than I did a year ago (not a great deal.) I'm wondering if when you woke up from a "year long dream" if your personality changes. I mean you could have a dream last for five years and wake up and be a whole new person, in a span of just 2 hours in real life. Maybe it doesn't work like that, I don't know, I can't say i've ever had a dream last more that a few hours.

[LucidDreamGod]

I used to have dreams like this as a kid usualy a little lucid too, I got realy sick of it, I was so bored I realy wanted to wake up.

[Mystical_Journey]

Anyone seen that episode of The Twilight Zone when that guy stops time? he has an old stop-watch......(maybe an idea to follow through into your dreams)