Listen to what im saying. It will certinly make your dream stabilize but there is more to how long your dream lasts than good stabilizing. If your stable you will probably have a really long dream but I don't think you will stay in the dream for any longer than your REM period lasts.
Well, yeah, that's pretty obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMonkey
i have heard alot of people talk about how dream time: real time is constant to each other, but i tend to disagree, haven't we all had those dreams that feel like they have gone for hours, when logically it could have only gone for at max 90mins (citation needed)? so my belief is if you are always stabilizing and remembering what you have done in the dream will increase "dream time"Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMonkey
i have however come across a problem though-remaining aware. while reading this comment, try to feel, listen to, smell and observe everything around you, now try to keep doing that for the next 10 mins. It is nigh impossible, a lot of training/discipline is required. Good luck
yeah, i tried this last night. i kinda forgot to keep doing it. but i did do it once in the dream. i still think this would help. i'm gonna keep trying it, and let you know if it works when i can do this for at least most of a dream.
Dream time is normaly about the same as waking life time, Stephan LaBerge proved that, but sometimes dreams can have dialated time. I have had the dream that last hours too and I am still in the process of making my own time dialatation technique. Thats why I have been saying stabilization alone will take you to a limit but good stabilization and awarness + a solid time dialation technique would mean you could have almost as long of a lucid as you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustralianFire
Time is relative in the dream state. it is possible to live years in a dream while in reality only a couple of minutes passed by. although that is a little extreme. and who the heck is Steven Labege?Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMonkey
Lol. Almost as quote-worthy as the quote in your own signature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wristblade56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge
Read Exploring the world of lucid dreaming.
lol thats exactly what I am saying gosh why don't people read more carefuly! Or maby I am not typing very clearly. :P Time is relative but it is normaly about the same as in waking life. I am still not sure if the calims that you can live life times in a single dream is real but I really want to find out. And Stepen Laberge is the guy who scientificly proved that lucid dreaming is real and did a lot to advance what we know about lucid dreams. He also wrote Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming which is like the bible of lucid dreaming. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Wristblade56
oh. whoops lol. boy do i feel stupid now... nice avatar btw! another zelda fan!
Haha, don't worry :P
I also used to experiment with increasing the length of an LD including a technique that messes with time. This technique is kind of hard to put into words at the moment.. it's sort of like everything is sped up greatly but then I jump into and can experience the sped up environment on the same level making everything move more or less normal speed from my sped up perspective if that makes any sense. I can tell that both myself and the environment around me are sped up but since I am synched up with the environment everything seems to progress fairly normally. When using this technique the area outside of what I have warped appears to be moving extremely slow. It took a LOT of work to get this down but I have managed to stay in dreams for what seems like very long periods of time because of this.
Another trick I have used to make the most of the time given in a dream is splitting myself. If there are 2 of me and both of me can sense and interact with the dream separately then I can effectively experience twice as much as I would be able to experience in the same amount of time as a single person. Splitting into more than 2 beings (not just a clone that you can control but a separate body with it's own senses) will also increase the amount of information you can perceive in a limited time but the more you split yourself the harder it is to process all of the information and remain focused. It is extremely hard to maintain at first but with a LOT of practice can become easier and more like second-nature. Your split selves can interact with each other in the dream or go their separate ways which basically results in being able to experience multiple lucid dreams simultaneously.
For a long while I used to have a series of dreams in which whenever I would sleep It would seem like I would go off and train for months at a time. After waking up and then going back to bed later the dream would simple pick up around where I left off. By lucid dreaming every night those months added up pretty fast and I started to feel like I was in the dreaming world much more than the real world. At the time I was much less social and didn't care too much about the real world. Sometimes I thought about what would happen if I worked towards leaving reality behind completely and dreaming forever but I never attempted to work towards such a goal and doubt that it would even be possible unless I somehow ended up in a coma or something.
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Also, this is starting to get more complex and difficult to understand but if you are able to progress with splitting yourself to the point you can have separate dreams going on at the same time. With a bit of planning there is another technique I have used which can greatly increase the amount of perceived time spent in an LD. If you split a desired LD into a series of dreams you can experience multiple parts of the series at the same time yet somehow(not sure how to put into words) you can perceive them as happening one after the other.
Picture you are reading a book and starting at the beginning of every single chapter. You read all of the chapters at the exact same time but have your brain sort out the chapters so that it makes sense as if you read the book from the beginning to end. This with a lot of practice will allow you to have a much longer LD in a short amount of time. If in your dream you would only have enough time to experience 1 chapter you can instead experience as many chapters are you are able to maintain splits for and sort out in the same amount of time.
I'm going to give this a try.. I'm not really that good at lucid dreaming yet, but I think I've gotten the hang of it. Teehee.