Thread: Time dilators: present yourselves!

I hear this muck all the time. It shows up in a newbie thread or in the middle of a completely unrelated thread; someone asks about a dream they had that felt like it lasted for a day or someone asks "hey I heard about this monk who lived 1000 years in a single night! what's up with that?" Then inexperienced skeptics will say it's not possible, other inexperienced optimists (like me) will talk about how maybe it is if you overclock your brain or something, and then a third body of completely mysterious mysticists will show up and talk about a friend who totally did have a week-long lucid, or they might even be brave enough to say they themselves have had an experience like that. And then you ask them about the mechanics of the experience or to provide a detailed recollection of the time period in question, and they dodge the interrogation or just never reply at all.

Everyone wants time dilation to be true (controlled time dilation, at least), and a bunch of people are making vague claims that they first- or second-handedly know without a doubt that it's true, possible, and within a dreamer or lucid dreamer's grasp.

So for all of you who've had an experience like this or all of you who intimately know the details of a friend's experience like this, show yourselves and prove you're not making it up. Present enough evidence, detail, or reasoned logic to show me that the 100-year life as a Japanese grammar teacher you lived really was as deep, long, and detailed as a 100-year-old Japanese grammar teacher's, and not just a delusion you got ahold of.

Right now I can explicitly visualize having lived a long and detailed life as somebody without ever actually having done so. I can compartmentalize these concepts of 'long life' and 'lifelike detail' as individual thoughts, and think them and feel that I know what I'm talking about, but I simply don't have the depth and detail of memory to back those impressions up. Show me you're not fooling yourself the same way and passing it off as truth.