Originally Posted by
ClouD
Your lack of experience with dreaming for extended periods of time and consciously remembering, along with the 'numerous others', is not experience at all, it is inexperience.
I have heard you can dream, and lucid dream, outside of REM periods, not that I understand nor really care for technicalities.
Probability has only to do with statistics, some people train recall, some people already have good recall, some people have shit recall. 'Highly improbable' sounds like you're speaking for all lucid dreamers.
Recall is more difficult than just remembering. If you are conscious enough during the dreaming, then there's no need to strain to recall, I find it comes as easy as normal memories depending on the engaged senses.
I'm speaking of my own experience, I don't know the science behind it, but cynicism redundantly gives way to reality.
I don't know about REM periods, but I do know from experience that 'time' is relative, right now is all there is and that is the essence of lucidity, not whether I think that I've logically had dreams that last hours, or whether you outright call bullshit on everything outside of your box, without the consideration that it is relative to interpretation.
Time dilation, time being subjective and dilation being the expansion of that subjective interpretation. I don't see how you can call 'bullshit' on that, unless you believe that time is entirely objective, which you've expressed you don't -- it looks contradicting.