Thread: Making Lucid Dreams Last For Like What Seems Days?

Originally Posted by Burke

Altering time in dreams is a somewhat controversial subject. Some people say every dream is the same as real time, others say they can last 10 minutes in real time, yet feel like hours. Some even claim that they can last for years. I remember a thread a few months (maybe a year) ago about someone claiming to be able to stay in a LD for several years. Nobody ever verified this and he just sort of disappeared (i think). His claim was that he sat in a completely blank template, just a large white expanse with one clock in the middle with seconds on it as well. He said that he would just stare at the clock for hours on end, until he eventually just left it. Then, he claimed that the dream lasted several years, in which he did not do anything crazy, but lived a normal life. He said that if he did anything that couldn't be done in waking life that the dream would get very unstable. Nobody was ever able to re-create this and, as I said, I believe said person is long gone. Most people were highly skeptical and dismissed it as a plea for attention, while a few believed him.

From my experience however, time dialation (i think that's what it's called) is prevalent in dreams to an extent. I've had a DEILD in which an alarm went off at 7:30, I preformed a DEILD and it lasted for what felt like 10 minutes. When I woke up however, I looked at the clock and it said 7:34. This has happened several times but never to the extent that person had claimed.

The only way I can think of prolonging a dream would be to spin/rub your hands when the dream starts to fade, or end it and preform a quick DEILD. I prefer the latter due to the fact that even if the first one fails, I still have a chance to get back in it with a DEILD.

Hope this helped!

My last lucid dream lasted 4-5 hours dream time, about 50 minutes real time. I'm intrigued about dreaming for years, and I think next time I'm lucid, after I do a few other experiments, I'm going stare at a clock for a very long time. See what happens...

I've already had a lucid dream about two years ago in which I was in it for 6 days, but I thought it was real. I didn't realize I was dreaming... until I woke up.