The long dream is incredibly fascinating to me. The concept of time dilation in the dream state is very curious to those who have lived it indeed. Many different dreamers have many different opinions/experiences when it comes to days/months/years long dreams.

Most reports I have read do indicate these experiences have profound affects on individuals psyches, as 'waking up' itself can feel like the death of a previous life.

I myself have had several long dreams in my journeys, some of which took hours to 'recalibrate' to the waking state and anchor myself back into this reality. Personally I believe there is a fluidity if not a subjectivity to the passing of time itself.

Now I am aware most materialist dreamers keep things pretty straight forward when the passage of time in the dream state is concerned, measured REM in the real world directly indicates the actual empirically experienced time in the dream. The illusions of elongated timelines being a facet of the minds ability to 'montage'/ surmise important details while assuming a greater passage of time than actually experienced. I personally am not entirely sure this is the case.

My question is, has anyone else had one of these psyche rocking 'long dreams'? Do you believe time to be objectively locked to the passage of measured waking time? Or are we tapping into some greater ability to manipulate the time flux?

I can't help but think of the Hyberbolic Time Chamber in the animated series Dragonball Z. Where individuals could lock themselves in a special chamber for 1 week outside time while having 365 days of fully unadulterated experience inside the chamber to develop skills/gain new knowledge.

If this ability exists and is developable within the confines of our minds with the power of lucidity, it would be the single greatest mental breakthrough of our time.

Share your experiences and thoughts