Thread: Extremely odd Lucid ability.

Do tell. I'm very curious about time extension in dreams. I've been working on it quite a bit myself lately. For some reason it seems easier to do while I'm NOT lucid.

Are you saying you just woke up from a dream that you felt lasted a whopping 2 years of Earth time? What were you doing? Did you live another life? Did you go to a school? Meet people? Make friends? Any romance? DETAILS!

Ah, time dilation, so long as you understand the importance of reality, I don't see why you would lose touch with reality. I can do time dilation, but it doesn't last nearly as long as yours, basically a few hours instead of years. And then I get headaches when doing it, so not a big fan of it <.<

I'm really interested in this time dilation too, tell us more of it.

I'm listening!

The only time I have experienced time dialation were in two visions that I had. A vision is a waking lucid state--sort of. I know it can be done, but I have never had an interest in time, just in what I am doing at a particular time.

The time dialation took place while I was awake one moment, and then . . . . well being shown what an asshole I was in the vision. So, real time seem to stop, conscious time however seemed normal. Physically, I don't see how it was possible, for I don't believe nerve response could be that fast.

I'd be interested to hear about it. Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but are you sure it definitely wasn't the kind of dream where you go through a series of separate events which happen quite far apart over a long period of time, giving the impression of two years having passed? Either way, sounds cool- what did you get up to with that much spare time?

Well when I extended my dreams for long periods of time I basically just did whatever came to mind, I could do anything, but I had to relax how frequent I did things or else I would loose the dream. But really I just lived well.. My dream life, lol so punny.

For the people who want to know I had something tramatic happen in my life a few years back, and I realized that being able to lucidly dream I could maybe give myself all the time I needed to think. What I did was imagine the same white space I imagine now, and a digital clock that also counts seconds, and for a few weeks I bored myself every night by watching that clock tick, counting off the seconds, I got to the point where if I was only thinking and not doing things I could hold time off for days worth of time, and from there I got better at doing it.

Eventually I simply decided to try to live a dream life. I lived it for 2 years, I remember in the dream days went day by day, there wern't gaps in time that I jumped by, but eventually I got scared of losing reality so I woke myself up(I can do this on command, another weird thing I can do.)

So if you want to try to do this my advice would be simply to try to visualize that clock and watch it tick, its very boring... but when you wake the time seems.. To shrink into itself, to implode maybe?

Interesting... maybe you could post a tutorial about this on the Wiki. I'm pretty sure most people would be interested in that. From there people of many professions and ages will be trying to have 2 year long dreams, and at that point how and why it happens will come out of the dark... ironically, that's what you have to visualize to do this. xD

One question: do you watch the clock as you go to sleep, or do you do it in the middle of the night when you or bored? Or perhaps when you are actually in the dream?

Maybe you could post some of your experiences, that would be interesting to everybody.

Anyone else getting an image of the Room of Spirit and Time (I.E. The Hyperbolic Time Chamber) from Dragon Ball Z, where one year inside only caused 24 hours to pass on Earth?

Big, empty, white, space, too. xD

I'm intrigued by what you said about the clock. Ironically, just today I was staring at the clock in the living room in awe. Watching and listening to the second hand tick... as if it was a reminder just how limited our time here is.

I think we all want to know more about what you did in your dream for two years. Surely you had some sort of routine if it felt like you were there for that long?

This is really crazy. But the way I see it is: If we can fly, teleport, summon things, and all the stuff like that in a dream; then what is stopping us from learning to actually slow down the percieved passage of time in the dream?

I agree that you must have had some kind of routine over those percieved years, this is so incredible.

A bizarre idea: What if this is what our short REM periods are like? Two years pass in the dream, yet it was only 5 minutes. It was so long that we forget all of it. I wonder if that is the case, or if it is something that has to be learned...

I watch the clock in the dream, just me, white endlessness and my blue digital clock. The idea behind it might be hard to get, but the training it for it just takes the ability to not succumb to extreme boredom. Its very simple, yet it takes a lot of will power to just sit there.

One of the experiences I had in my dream life, I'm 15 and only a freshy in highschool btw, one clear one that sticks out to me was when I burned down my highschool, ya kinda sad... But something odd I just cant remember about my dream is when I sleep in my dream.. Inception?? Going into a dream in my dream? I'll post tomorrow what its like, I need a reminder so I'll extend my dream at least a day.

And its funny you say that dragon ball z thing, thats sorta what gave me my inspiration for the setting.

I don't get it. You watch the clock in your dream or while awake? And was the highschool rebuilt?

In the dream. And it wasn't so I had to go to school in Hawaii =D

Its always hard to believe things like this until you have had the experience. I have not prolonged a dream more than 15 minutes. But i hope to experieance this in the future.

Originally Posted by Skullyy

In the dream. And it wasn't so I had to go to school in Hawaii =D

Ha, that's cool! I wonder how far you can bend your dream even further so that is even cool...? School in Hawaii, no homework, hang out with friends all day, have an awesome car (if you drive), awesome girl/boyfriend, other details you feel like adding... life's good then!

I would hate waking up from that...

Then again, it would get boring, so eventually you would just let randomness settle in.

Originally Posted by dakotahnok

Its always hard to believe things like this until you have had the experience. I have not prolonged a dream more than 15 minutes. But i hope to experieance this in the future.

Ya I understand that, just try what I said if you want, it can take a while to extend them though.

I, along with every body else here, am still very confused on how to do this. Maybe posting a step by step guide would be Awsome. You say you stare at your clock, I don't get it.

Skullyy, I don't think the DBZ thins is strange at ALL! Where do you think THEY got their inspiration for such an idea from!?

Alright.

Well...

1. Go to sleep NORMALLY, nothing special needs to be done.
2. If you can change your environment, imagine a blank white slate as your environment, nothing else is needed and you don't want anything to distract you.
(At this point you should be asleep, in the environment I have described.)
3. Make a digital clock that counts hours, minutes, and seconds. Days and Weeks may need to be added as you progress.
4. Simply sit there, and watch it tick, count off the seconds and see how long you can just stay asleep.
5. You eventually will be woken up your first couple tries, but you should start to see progress in how long your dream seems, even though the amount you sleep does not.

Rinse and repeat, any questions about this I will answer asap =D
P.S. Doing this will be extremely boring... My only advice is to endure it, and when you wake up time will seem to have shrunk into itself.

OK, I might try it.

BTW, did we do what other forums didn't? ^.^ That's what you came here for!

Its helped me analyze what it is I'm doing =P but this is just something that will take a while to understand fully I guess, but hopefully if people on here try it they can understand it more than I.

It will take some people that know something about this subject and more people applying this technique to be able to understand it.

The way I think of it is the boring part of the dream makes it seem longer (happens when awake too, xD), so after several weeks of doing the boring technique, it carries over into your dreams, similar to a RC. Not sure if that is correct, but it's logical.