Thread: An Inception concept?

Hi i wonder, since ive never lucid dreamt,
Can you use the concept of slowed down time in LD? Like "make it feel like years have passed" as you enter deeper layers of dreams? Has anyone tried this before?

My personal experience is dream time and real life time are about the say. Although in a dream you suddenly jump forward in time, which may make it seem like you are in a dream longer than reality. I had a dream once were I needed to get from one town to another. It would have taken about an hour by car, but I just "jumped" and I was at the new place. But my dream memory convinced me that I had actually traveled there by car. When I woke up I realized there was no 1 hour drive. I hope this makes sense.

But overall, not I don't think that the concept given in Inception is accurate. Your mind does not speed up in a dream. Just my opinion.

On DV we call this "Time Dilation", I haven't done it yet (at least not that I know of) but there are people here that have experienced this. It was talked about in this episode of the DreamViews podcast: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...-mistakes.html

It's a really interesting idea, even on a "smaller" scale it would be really useful, to be able to make a 5 minute lucid dream feel like 10 or 15 minutes would be pretty cool.

If you're just talking about stretching the time you're in the lucid dream, you can try out some of the techniques listed in this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...echniques.html

I can't say much, for I haven't tried any of them myself.

SLaB said you can use the technique they use in films - jump ahead in time to a future point that creates the illusion that the dream lasted longer.