Thread: Stephen LaBerge: There is no time dilation within dreams?

I think that there are limited occasions where the time effect synchs up, but they are likely rare.

I would bet that it happens for me when I have a soundtrack to my dream, and the music is playing note-for-note and the timing feels correct. I wake up from those dreams and the music is still playing in my head.

Other times, like when I'm chasing something or the scene in my dream shifts radically from one location or time point to another, I am more likely experiencing a lot of dream sensations in a short period of actual time. Those can feel confusing, and are harder to retain all the details upon waking.

An acquaintance of mine held this neurotechnology forum conference back in the 90s. Stephen Laberge spoke there and showed charts from this study and others. He's recently released some of these talks, including Stephen's, on video onto youtube. It's a fascinating series of videos which catch Stephen is his prime.

In his books Laberge mentions that dreams produce the illusion of time dilation in much the same way that movies do, by cutting out parts of the plot or continuum that aren't relevant to the narrative/dream experience. As an example, in the dream you say to a friend you're going to go clean up for a party and all of a sudden you're at the party all cleaned up, or perhaps you're home cleaning up, but didn't experience the car ride there. In this way we create the illusion of greater lengths of time passing. IMO the Inception style time dilation stuff is simply not true.

Videos:

I'm a new member so I can't post links. Go to YouTube and search "Stephen Laberge NTF", it's a series of 5 videos.