Yes it's true. Time in a dream can feel like years for some people even if you're in that dream for two hours in real life. |
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"He was unrespectful to the Dream Pirate"
said the seal after beating up my brother
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Yes it's true. Time in a dream can feel like years for some people even if you're in that dream for two hours in real life. |
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Stephen LaBerge claims it's a memory trick. It's like having the memory of years jammed into your brain in a couple of minutes. It feels like it went on forever, when in reality you only experienced short moment. Of course this is what he says, I cannot testify to any of this. |
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein
I believe that if we can manipulate everything else in our dreams, why not time? I'd venture to guess that since time is sort of an abstract idea it is one of the most difficult aspects to control. If you decide you want to skip ahead four years in your dream, how do you know you're not just simply changing the scene? And even if you somehow recognize that moving forward in time is really what you're doing, then is that not in itself simply changing the scene - since you're in a dream and not "real time?" |
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well. At least I'm not dead.'
-Rosencrantz
The weighted companion cube cannot speak.
And when we pretended we were going to murder you- that was great...
I have to agree with LaBerge on this one. While time is not a constant, your brains processing power over a certain amount of time certainly is. Our brains are machines (note: brain and soul are separate)...biological in nature, but still machines. To actually experience a weeks worth of life in an hour or so (of real time) would require your brain to accelerate its processing abilities far past what it is actually capable of. That is, to actually slow time down by 1/2, you would have to double the speed at which your brain thinks. It just doesn't seem very plausible from a scientific standpoint. Sadly, because of the abstract nature of dreams, it's impossible to prove either way. |
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"Butch Cassidy: I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
LaBerge conducted an experiment in which test subjects indicated their estimation of 10 second time intervals using eye movements during a lucid dream. Their estimations were shown to be very accurate compared to real time. |
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I've read somewhere that a man claimed to have lived one hundred years in a dream, and was tested on a polygraph which said he was telling the truth, but they're not that accurate. |
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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. I am the Resurrection and the Life.
I am the Light at the End of the Tunnel.
Rimor Somnium Universitas
True. Your dreams tend to cut out the boring bits. So you may think you've walked 2 miles to the shops, but you've actually just appeared at the shop and think you remember walking there. Its a trick of the mind. |
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Lucid Dreams:-
MILD/DILD: 79
WILD: 13
DEILD:13
(TOTAL: 108 )
I think dream time is just as subjective as everything else. when you focus on time, as the subjects in LaBerges experiments did, time was accurate, on the other hand if you don't pay attention to it it will have all sorts of weird things. |
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TAKE DV members advice with caution! some have had zero or 1-2 LD's yet act like gurus
TOTAL LD's (almost all DILD/MILD) =160!!
new goals: have more LD's than Shift[X]
10-15min LD [ X] Article: A day in the life of an LD-er
the "Mind V.S. Body" Induction technique
Everyman 2 LD's/ sleep schedule progress
I actually read the opposite. |
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Last edited by panta-rei; 04-05-2009 at 08:26 PM.
Lucid Dreams:-
MILD/DILD: 79
WILD: 13
DEILD:13
(TOTAL: 108 )
how can somone make it feel longer? |
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Hold on now. |
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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. I am the Resurrection and the Life.
I am the Light at the End of the Tunnel.
Rimor Somnium Universitas
Dreams can convey a sense of many years passing the same way that movies can convey a sense of many years passing. The important point here is that they don't actually, objectively take that much time to elapse; rather, as some people have hinted at, the effect is probably caused by various memory tricks. For example, if you lay down for a half-hour nap and have a dream where you drive to work to start your shift, do some stuff, and then drive home in the dream, you may infer that the dream appeared to last an entire 8-hour shift - however, you wouldn't have actually experienced most of that 8 hours. |
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