Thread: 2 questions about lucid dreams

1) Some people say that time in a dream time pasts faster. For example, if you dreamed for about 30 minutes, than only 15 minutes or so pasts in real life. I don't know if it's true or not.

2) I've read a book, where author talked about something bigger than Lucid Dreaming. He called it counscious dreaming. (Sounds the same to me). He said that LD is when you have 50 - 70% contol of your deam (Can't remember % exactly) and counscious dreaming is when you have 90 - 100% control over your dream. Also, he said that when you have such a high control you can achieve every memory you have ever had and even more. maybe your pasts life too. It's your choice to believe it or not, but there are some things in this world which are yet to be explained by science.

1) I have seen this discussed a few times here on DV.
LaBerge stated in his book that he researched this, and found that dream time is about equal to waking time.
However some people (me included) have had dreams that last longer than the total amount of REM sleep you experience per night.

This could be explained by how our memory works. We don't memorize every single moment of our life.
For example if you take an 8 hour car drive in waking life, you'll only remember specific events (conversation in the car, fuel stop, start and arrival etc), but not so much every moment of driving on a highway.
If you only experience these memorable moments in the dream, and it leaves you with a feeling of exhaustion when you arrive, the experience will be identical to waking life, even though it lasted only a few minutes instead of 8 hours.
This is just a theory though, so take it with a grain of salt.

2) I have never heard of anyone doing it that specifically. It is possible to recall a vague memory though, and try to recreate it in your dreams and trying to live through the events that occurred.
You'll have no way of telling if what you witness is true, or something made up by your subconscious mind though.
I think someone who has studied hypnosis may be able to give you a more specific answer to this though.

1) I think that it can seem like more time has passed in a dream, like you look somewhere, want to walk there. After 1 second you appear in the place you want to be but you think you walked there so it seems longer.

2) I have found that my memory is even WORSE in dreams.

1) As stated, LaBerge did a study and discovered that it was pretty much the same as waking life. However our brain can trick us into thinking it was longer by skipping minor details, false memories (something like "Why am I going to my friends anyway?" and your brain throws a memory that never happened saying "You needed to deliver that package you got the other day"), and various other things. But no, time passes at the same speed though it may not feel like it.

2) Hm well, if you remember the data in the first place I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. If you DON'T recall the data, I am not exactly sure. I suppose you could give it a shot, but I can't say if it would be accurate or not.

Cheers all. This question has been on and off my mind for over a year now. Well.. I suppose this thread can be closed now