Thread: Theorie/Question I can't seem to find an answer...

I've been thinking about something that is impossible for me to answer. I've heard that there are some people who lived ages in their lucid dreams. So please imagine this scene :

Imagine that there is somebody who can extend his dreams FOREVER and in RL the time doesn't go forward (So he dreams a year and in RL not even a second has passed). Some day he decides to quit his RL and make his lucid dream never end (really, NEVER). So he says to you goodbye and tells you that he will dream forever. So how will this work? If he wants to dream forever and the time won't go forward, but for you the time runs normally, what will happen? Will it just stop and time ends?

I know this theorie is pretty stupid but I think about such things alot in my free time.
So, please tell me if you have any idea/solution so I can sleep without getting headache from this!

Greetz, Katsuno

Well, you couldn't make it last forever, you would eventually wake up. But I suppose if you could train yourself enough, and maybe use some medical equipment, increase your brain activity so that your dreams could last a very long time. But you would eventually wake up. Time always goes by.

Hypothetically speaking, He would wake up after the night's sleep and if he decides to actually wake up, you'd see him again. To him though, he would have been dreaming "forever," in dream time.

Ever seen Inception?
If you have, then wouldn't it just be like being in limbo?
Living your life out until you died, waking up to find that it had only been a few minutes...

Time never stops. If you dilated time in your dream, it would only "stretch", and time would still be moving forward along that stretched axis, so to speak. You can't make a dream last forever. Besides, we don't have infinite brain power, so even in that respect it's impossible.

Thank you for your answers! It really helped me. I already thought of something like this but then I'm asking myself: "What if you actually CAN make dreams last forever?" Then again I'm confused ^^
But I think this won't be ever possible (or at least not so soon ) So, thank you again!

I suppose somehow if you could increase brain activity while dreaming so much that time seemed to go slower, AND you managed to be able to stay in the dream then....yeah....

I have heard of people having like a month of dream time in a single dream, and the human brain is amazingly powerful, so it could probably last a long. And I thought of that too, it would be awesome to live hundreds of full lives within one.

Well here is a good method to remove your confusion, go ahead and try it out, see how close you get to forever, who knows, what the other posters are saying are only their opinions, we do not know enough about it for those posts to be true, so the best thing is to just do it.

Dreams seem to get longer by using tricks. Things like instant travel, not having to eat, entirely skipping over boring stuff.

You wake up and you walk down the stairs, and you are already dressed. You walk out the front door and get into your car, then out of an elevator and your at work. You sit down at your desk, but stop to chat with your friend, "Hey how are you doing? want to go rock climbing tomorrow?" They say sure, so you get up and walk out the door and your at a mountain and you start rock climbing. You get to the top and then lay down to rest in your bed and say to yourself, "It sure been an exciting two days." In reality, that is about 30 seconds of dream time.

You remember going to work, but you don't remember hitting any lights, or passing any cars, or what you listened to on the radio, because none of it happened. That is how dreams can seem to last a long time, when they really don't. It is like watching a movie. Most movies cover more than 2 hours, yet the story of them still make sense and it is almost like you see into days or months of a persons life.

Originally Posted by Alric

Dreams seem to get longer by using tricks. Things like instant travel, not having to eat, entirely skipping over boring stuff.

You wake up and you walk down the stairs, and you are already dressed. You walk out the front door and get into your car, then out of an elevator and your at work. You sit down at your desk, but stop to chat with your friend, "Hey how are you doing? want to go rock climbing tomorrow?" They say sure, so you get up and walk out the door and your at a mountain and you start rock climbing. You get to the top and then lay down to rest in your bed and say to yourself, "It sure been an exciting two days." In reality, that is about 30 seconds of dream time.

You remember going to work, but you don't remember hitting any lights, or passing any cars, or what you listened to on the radio, because none of it happened. That is how dreams can seem to last a long time, when they really don't. It is like watching a movie. Most movies cover more than 2 hours, yet the story of them still make sense and it is almost like you see into days or months of a persons life.

This makes sense, besides you are not all there in your dreams, your senses can be misguided, or misinformed.