Thread: Time control: possible in another way

There's a lot of discussion whether time control is possible in dreams. Most plausible is: our brain is not capable of processing everything x times faster (so that would be time control relative to RL time, slowing RL time down), therefore it's not possible.

However, I figured there's another "kind" of time control, and it's gotta be no problem to our brain. "in-dream environment" time control. And I think (I still gotta try) we would have the following possibilities:

- 1x to 0x speed (so one would just sorta "pause" the environment, meaning everything the dreamer sees doesn't move, but he/she can move around.
- Slowing things down (0.5x speed) by just slowing down the environment. Our brain is perfectly capable of it, think of it as imitating someone getting slow-mo punched in the face when you were at the primary school. Everything gets slowed down, except you. This would enable one to make awesome matrix-style moves
- Jumping back in time. I think this is clear to everyone. Just going back a few second to a few minutes back in times, with either the dreamer staying at the same place or returning to his/her position back in time

I don't know for sure, but with a little bit of imagination one could also go forward in time.

A time-controlling-device would make things even easier.

It all sound pretty easy to me but it might turn out quite tricky. Let the first one who gets to try it out post the results
Maybe it's a very stupid suggestion because it's already very common known

Anyway,
Let me know what you think. Correct me if I'm wrong with anything.

well here is something too, i know everyone is going to jump on this but this is just what i think. their imaginatio is the limit. but what if you were to start an LD and then somehow reversed the time to go bck to the beginning of it. who said that time has to go foward in real life? how do you know it won't go back with your dream? maybe our bodies are capable of doing things when we sleep that we otherwise put a limit on when we are awake. just a theory.

Originally Posted by pdiddles03

who said that time has to go foward in real life?

Have you, sir, ever personally experienced time going backwards IRL?
I don't really get your point, sorry

Originally Posted by ruba

Have you, sir, ever personally experienced time going backwards IRL?
I don't really get your point, sorry

, yeah, I believe he's onto something completely different from yours.

I'd love to be able to explore a scene from the past, even as a non-interactive ghost like visit. I have a friend who claims to have done such on occassion.

Yeah that would be cool too, but what I meant is you basically you go back in time a certain amount of time within the timeline of your dream, so one would see a car explode and want to watch again, and simply go back in time.

I once stopped time in a lucid dream. It was funny because I was trying to teleport behind some guys but I've not mastered teleportation yet. So I figured stopping time and getting behind them was the same thing. Then I thought that I'd stop all movement because I see that as stopping time. But I could still move around

Compared to the things that have happened before in dreams, I honestly see no reason why our brain wouldn't be capable of processing all of that. It seems totally plausible to me.

Originally Posted by Madbagel

Compared to the things that have happened before in dreams, I honestly see no reason why our brain wouldn't be capable of processing all of that. It seems totally plausible to me.

I didn't say that, however I mentioned in the first line of the thread,

There's a lot of discussion whether time control is possible in dreams. Most plausible is: our brain is not capable of processing everything x times faster (so that would be time control relative to RL time, slowing RL time down), therefore it's not possible.

What I meant with that: Our brains wouldn't be capable of having a 4 hour dream which lasts 1 hour in RL.

Originally Posted by Banana King

I once stopped time in a lucid dream. It was funny because I was trying to teleport behind some guys but I've not mastered teleportation yet. So I figured stopping time and getting behind them was the same thing. Then I thought that I'd stop all movement because I see that as stopping time. But I could still move around

Sounds cool