Burning Question

[SpencerW]

I don't know nor have the will to use "search". Is it technically possible to extend my LD length-wise, Actually living my life for let's say a week, while I dream, furthermore extending my dreams as well, Since we know that vivid dreams last only about a second wouldn't it just be a nights' rest. But, in our dreams much-much longer, Please do put any Anti-Thesis , Juxtaposition or otherwise Valid argument as to why it's not technically achievable thanks CHHERS

[Cacophony]

I don't know nor have the will to use "search". Is it technically possible to extend my LD length-wise, Actually living my life for let's say a week, while I dream, furthermore extending my dreams as well, Since we know that vivid dreams last only about a second wouldn't it just be a nights' rest. But, in our dreams much-much longer, Please do put any Anti-Thesis , Juxtaposition or otherwise Valid argument as to why it's not technically achievable thanks CHHERS I have had a dream where I went to sleep and woke up for several days in the dream and didn't realize I was dreaming until around five days (then with all the excitement woke up). I didn't try to have a dream like this, it just happened. If you'd like you can read it in my dream journal.

[priestofmyownchurch]

I read a story of a man that claimed to have live an entire lifetime in one night's sleep. Had a whole other family and everything. I think, that while it may be possible to either speed up your mind so time seems slower or to kind of pause time while you're asleep, I don't know about having that last for more than a week or so. Even that seems a bit extreme to me.

[imj]

Dreams work by time lapse much like movies. So the longer the time frame the less resolution you'll get in terms of detail and continuity. IMJ

[spockman]

imj may be right on some accounts, but I generally don't think it's a law of dreaming. The longest dream seemd like it was about 2 months. Since we have no real internal clock that works while we sleep (at least I don't,) it works to be asleep for an hour and have it seem like day. (Or to be asleep for ten hours and have it seem like two months.) But I don't know how... Each day I got up and did a whole routine for that day. I was a different person. I knew different people, had a different job, place of origin, friends, family... Everything was incredibly detailed about my new memory and surroundings and my new city. Everything was consistent and logical with scientific laws. People had realistic personalities and character flaws, including "me." I 'became' that person. It wasn't lucid though. I had no idea who Aaron W. was. When I woke up it was so surreal. I felt like I wasn't myself, like I wasn't real. And then I had to just leave my alter ego behind and force myself to get up and to remember what my actual routine was. It was hard to get back into my life for a little bit.

[Cacophony]

Dreams work by time lapse much like movies. So the longer the time frame the less resolution you'll get in terms of detail and continuity. IMJ Yeah, I agree with that. The one I had where I spent several days in my dream was choppy... like I'd wake up and do one thing and go back to bed and there would be huge time lapses where I couldn't have possibly done a days worth of things, but I didn't think about how short each day was.

[spockman]

That really wasn't the case for me, though, cacaphony. My only geuss is that each second my un-conciouss brain comprehended a crap load more than my conciouss brain could and my sub-conciouss brain percieved it as a longer time than had elapsed in the waking world. But the difference of time elapsed is merely semantics as it felt like a long time. That's all inference, though. If it is correct, though, then I doubt a five minute dream could be extended to a week effectivley while lucid. Think about it, that was my sub-conciouss brain percieving the info like that. If your lucid, then your conciouss is thrown into the mix and it would probably percieve time with more clarity/basis in reality. But this is all based on my supposition. I claim none of it to be reality, just a possibility.

[Cacophony]

That really wasn't the case for me, though, cacaphony. My only geuss is that each second my un-conciouss brain comprehended a crap load more than my conciouss brain could and my sub-conciouss brain percieved it as a longer time than had elapsed in the waking world. But the difference of time elapsed is merely semantics as it felt like a long time. . Yeah, that makes sense... Haha, our brains are on "RAMPAGE DATA OVERLOAD" mode while we dream. That's my only explanation for it.

[edricoavalos]

I don't know nor have the will to use "search". Is it technically possible to extend my LD length-wise, Actually living my life for let's say a week, while I dream, furthermore extending my dreams as well, Since we know that vivid dreams last only about a second wouldn't it just be a nights' rest. But, in our dreams much-much longer, Please do put any Anti-Thesis , Juxtaposition or otherwise Valid argument as to why it's not technically achievable thanks CHHERS you can live as fast as you want or as slow as you want, just speed up the day, move the sun across the sky, put it under the horizon do the same with the moon and thats a day. Done.