Thread: Lucid Dreams and Time

Originally Posted by duke396

To me it seems relative? I mean as far as having "long" dreams I think I perceive the dream as longer when I remember more details. When I have a dream fragment do I think I was in the dream world for less time? Not necessarily. It could be that I woke up a lot or it just slipped my mind. I think time tends to pass at a normal perceived rate, but it seems like I can get more things done in less time because of what someone else mentioned about skipping parts of the process. I suppose if you were lucid it's not out of the question to manipulate the flow of time, but I haven't tried that on a large scale (just made one feisty dude age really fast lol). Interesting discussion... I don't know if this is really related but I can't think of a time where I had a full transition from day to night or vice versa. I have had dreams that cover longer amounts of time but it's more of a ghost of Christmas future type thing... Here's you now, boom it's 10 hours/days/years later. I'll have to search my journals for any exceptions to this, I'm curious now.

Actually I had a dream once that involved me seeing an old version of myself (old as in like 90 years old, didn't know the old guy was me at this point.) then as the dream progressed I became the old version of me and saw the young me in the same way that the old me was originally seen. I don't know whether to attribute it to the aging process being screwed up or accelerated time, because in the dream itself it didn't seem like an incredibly long time. Either way it was pretty darn creepy.

Cool, never had experience where I saw version of old me. I had couple of dreams where I thought it was older me, but I was not sure. Had a lot of jumps in time, I appeared in old times, castles and knights and then I saw that there were wizards there, I wanted to go forward in time but in the same dream, appeared somewhere in future and did not find any wizards there, that's why I was not sure whether it is the same dream in future or a new dream of future in a new world.