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This is a commonly asked question, and a good one. I have heard that this is possible and it's a thrilling idea. If you become proficient enough in entering lucid dreams at will, I see no reason as to why you would not be able to create your own little "lucid reality/life". You may find yourself in a different setting than your previous lucid dream-practice though, and I'm sure you can get back to where you "left off".

Read up on increasing dream recall, reality checks, and explore different methods for getting lucid. Experiment & once you have confidence, begin to exert your will & create.

Good luck

It should be theoretically possible for the firing speed of neurons to increase to such a level that one experiences more in a given amount of time, creating the illusion of time dilation. I think something like this is the case during powerful adrenaline rushes. Have you ever, say, been in a car accident and felt as though time slowed down? I have. That right there tells me this is certainly plausible, to a certain degree at least. However, I don't know enough about neurology to really say anything for sure.

Quite a few people have claimed this to be a possibility. Some are adamant that they can enter a dream and live for days, weeks or even years before waking up and resuming their 'real' life.

All in all, with the lack of empirical evidence and my personal inability to ever make this happen in my own mind - I remain undecided.

Looking forward to more opinions on this interesting notion though

From what I understand about neurology (which is a fair amount), the firing speed does not increase. Not even when we're afraid (which creates the illusion of time dilation). It seems as if time is actually measured by our experience of detail. That is, the more detail there is, the slower things seem to go. The less detail there is, the faster things seem to go. Dreams occur at a level of conceptual experience where we don't have to worry about sensory data. We're swimming in raw concepts. Because of this, the "data" is able to be more easily compressed. For instance, I had a dream once which lasted for what felt like about four months. Because it was an everyday life scenario, the majority of it was just me on autopilot going about my day. I think I was able to experience that much time because the large swaths of autopilot were only occasionally punctuated with vital decisions as to the course and flow of my life at the time. So for instance, I could "experience" an entire morning routine in a single instant because that routine had it's own symbolic representation, which I could run through as a sort of gestalt experience to fill what would otherwise be a leap ahead in time. In fact, if a day were a "typical Thursday" for instance, there could be a symbolic representation for that. Piecing it all together after the fact, the "data" is decompressed and it seems like there's a lot more than should have been possible... because we don't see the compression and decompression. We don't realize that we're interacting directly at the symbolic conceptual level. That's my take on it anyway.

Of course, this doesn't really tell us how to make this happen. At the very least, knowing this, I don't know how to specifically engineer the effect.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense, Ohm.