Thread: Idea for MULTIPLYING TIME in lucid dreams

In actual practice, there isn't a dream inside a dream. Dreams have no layers sadly, all we experience are the illusions. Still, pretty interesting topic considering that time itself can be considered an illusion ^^

Originally Posted by Zoth

Dreams have no layers sadly, all we experience are the illusions.

Maybe this is true, but then how could you explain false awakenings? Everything is consistent, and if you go to bed in a dream, then you enter another dream (ok so maybe its the same dream), but when you exit that dimension of your ''layered'' dream, you just go back to the dream you started in... What I'm trying to say is that if these layers are illusions, than why in dreams within dreams do we wake back up in the dream we started in first, instead of jumping through the ''illusion of a dream layer'' directly back into waking consciousness? I agree with you, it's sketchy, because a dream is a dream, you're going to wake up in waking life no matter what,but seriously, I think the expectation of your subconscious trying to enter yet another dream in your already dream state can be enough for it to create an illusion of time-dilation. I will post back when I try this experiment, hopefully I have a lucid soon!