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

How can i prolong a dream? I saw some post saying how if your calm it lasts longer but how can you make it last for what it seems like days in our dreams?

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!

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.

I have had lucid dreams that feel like they last for an hour. That is the best I've had.

I'm not sure there is a way to induce it. I don't personally believe people who say they are in lucid dreams for what feels like more than 3 hours are telling the truth. That's just my position.

There is this event that occurs on movies as well that might be somewhat related to experiences where people say their dreams lasted for hours. I'll narrow it down for you:

- You're watching a movie scene where the hero and his beloved one kiss under the stars at night
- Then, you see them married and with a kid in a sunny day at their house

What you do here is pretend (even though you aren't aware that you're doing it) that you believe that a very long length of time has passed. Imo, this might happen as well in dreams. Besides, other factors probably come into play. Take people that are extremely focused on being lucid. They do a RC every minute, keep noticing things in order to maintain themselves lucid. That means with so many interruptions the dream seems to last for ages.

I agree zoth00.

I mean, I've had dreams where its been as if I've lived in a house for days. This is because one moment it'll be the morning, then night a few minutes later, then morning again. The quick change of events, mixed with my lack of logic, make it feel as if it was days. However after I've woken up I realize it actually only felt like 10 minutes.

Though this doesn't explain why lucid dreamers claim to be in dreams for hours. Hopefully these people are smart enough not to confuse the unstable simulation of dream time with reality.

Originally Posted by Loaf

I agree zoth00.

I mean, I've had dreams where its been as if I've lived in a house for days. This is because one moment it'll be the morning, then night a few minutes later, then morning again. The quick change of events, mixed with my lack of logic, make it feel as if it was days. However after I've woken up I realize it actually only felt like 10 minutes.

Though this doesn't explain why lucid dreamers claim to be in dreams for hours. Hopefully these people are smart enough not to confuse the unstable simulation of dream time with reality.

That must explain how in my latest dream i just some how appeared in a different place with different people at a different time. But like you said the dream only felt like 20 minutes when i woke up. And about that guy in a dream for years sounds cool but a little over exaggerated. I believe that you can be in a dream for like a couple days or so but not a year. But ya stuff like that is what I'm talking about. I will have to try that clock thing and see before i say anything else.

time is a wy we see things , it's satisfaction , here if you go to play a football match with many goals scored and many people getting hurt and you watch how much time passed and you see one minute you would be shocked because you expect 90 minutes to have passed well for a day it's the same if you eat breakfast and watch a show take a shower walk the dog , OF COURSE you'll expect 5 hours to have passed while in a dream i suspect that many things happen simultaneously so that's my point .