Stephen LaBerge: There is no time dilation within dreams?

**RedDaemonfox** · 01-07-2013 05:45 PM

Definitely spent 2 hours asleep and felt like a day in my dream last night. Havent had the time to work on lucidity, been busy with work but I'm alive, no less, but I definitely felt like I was 8-12 hours in a dream.

**elucid** · 01-07-2013 07:27 PM

Definitely spent 2 hours asleep and felt like a day in my dream last night. Havent had the time to work on lucidity, been busy with work but I'm alive, no less, but I definitely felt like I was 8-12 hours in a dream.

Cool, I would be scared if I had a time dilation moment. Hope you had fun.

**TranquilityTrip** · 01-11-2013 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by RedDaemonfox

Definitely spent 2 hours asleep and felt like a day in my dream last night. Havent had the time to work on lucidity, been busy with work but I'm alive, no less, but I definitely felt like I was 8-12 hours in a dream.

I think the question is, do you feel like your dream laster 8 - 12 hours for no apparent reason or do you think you accomplished 8 - 12 hours worth of activities in the dream?
If it's the former, then we have nothing really to go on, however, if it's the latter then you "may" have truly experienced time dilation (though I don't actually believe in TD just yet).

**Ginsan** · 02-28-2014 04:45 PM

I wish some expierienced lucid dreamers would just enter this thread and answer like BOOM

**Laurelindo** · 02-28-2014 05:19 PM

I believe that the reason why dreams feel longer than they actually are is because you are completely present in every moment.
Try counting 3,600 seconds in your head and it will feel like forever.

**FryingMan** · 02-28-2014 09:17 PM

All the LaBerge study shows is that time in the dream CAN correspond to waking time. In no way did it prove that time MUST ALWAYS correspond under all circumstances. That is just simple basic logic.

**Laurelindo** · 02-28-2014 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

All the LaBerge study shows is that time in the dream CAN correspond to waking time. In no way did it prove that time MUST ALWAYS correspond under all circumstances. That is just simple basic logic.

That's true, but there are good reasons to assume that dream time is probably the same, since several tests have indicated this.
This shouldn't matter though, because the thing that really means something is that lucid dreams can feel long.
If a lucid dream feels like it lasted for weeks, then it does indeed feel like several "real" weeks to the dreamer.

**SinisterDezz** · 03-02-2014 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by Ginsan

I wish some experienced lucid dreamers would just enter this thread and answer like BOOM

Can't help you there. Sorry

**Ginsan** · 03-02-2014 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by SinisterDezz

Can't help you there. Sorry

Why not man? You can at least share some expieriences. For example, if you have expierienced like 3 or 4 hours of dreams in 8 hours of sleep, or as some people have reported, in a 30 minute nap, then you it's obvious some time dilation has happened. Right?