"Mind/brain/body relationships during dreaming One of the earliest experiments conducted by
my re-search team tested the traditional notion that the experi-ence of dream time is somehow
different from time in the waking world. We approached the problem of dream time by asking
subjects to make an eye movement signal in their lucid dreams, estimate a ten-second interval
(by counting one thousand and one, one thousand and two, etc. ), and then make another eye
movement signal. In all cases, we found time estimates made in lucid dreams were within a few
seconds of estimates made in the wak-ing state and likewise quite close to the actual time
be-tween signals. From this we have concluded that in lucid dreams, estimated dream time is
very nearly equal to clock time; that is, it takes just as long to do something in a dream as it
does to actually do it.
You may be wondering, then, how you could have a dream that seems to last for years or
lifetimes. I believe this effect is achieved in dreams by the same stage trick that causes the
illusion of the passage of time in the mov-ies or theater. If, on screen, stage, or dream, we see
someone turning out the light as the clock strikes mid-night, and after a few moments of
darkness, we see him turning off an alarm as the bright morning sun shines through the
window, we’ll accept (pretend, without being aware that we are pretending) that many hours
have Passed even though we “know” it was only a few sec-onds."
Taken from Exploring the world of lucid dreaming from Stephen LaBerge. I think you will find this short part very interesting
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