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OK, so I did a search and found a thread exactly like this... but it was over a year old, and somehow I don't think the mods would apreciate me bumping it. ;)
How long was your longest ever dream? (In the dream world, not IRL) I think I've had some last maybe a week, but that's rare.
And how long are your dreams on average?
I mean any kind of dreaming, not just LDs.
I think maybe about one whole day for me. I've heard that the majority of the time, dream time is equall to real time, but some times thats obviously not the case. I've also heard that experienced LDers can make dream time slow down, like cramming a few weeks into one night. that'd be pretty sweet to do.
Maybe you saw this in the previous such post, but I had a dream were I died young and went to heaven, and I waited there until a family member would die also. It was my brother - and he died 40 years after me. So, yes, the dream was more or less 40 years long. I was twelve at the time.
Heaven was good and simple. Didn't get bored of it even after 40 years even though ironically it was quite a small, cosy place. When I woke up I wanted to be back there :(
What was there to do in heaven for 40 years?Quote:
Originally posted by Identity X
Heaven was good and simple. Didn't get bored of it even after 40 years even though ironically it was quite a small, cosy place. When I woke up I wanted to be back there :(
Play on pinball machine's? I do hope they have one in heaven. I heard they just installed a 'angelbuster 9000 pinball machine' in hell.Quote:
Originally posted by Henfe
What was there to do in heaven for 40 years?
If you lose, molten lead is poared into your eyes. You win at 666^666 points.
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Originally posted by Henfe+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Henfe)</div>More importantly, if you believe in Heaven like me, what is there to do for eternity? Eternity is worrying, but non-extistence more so.Quote:
What was there to do in heaven for 40 years?[/b]
Anyway, back on topic, I might as well repost my previous description:
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OK, people, behold the dream that spanned a time a little greater than double my age, and just under 4 times my age at the time (don't worry, of course for a dream this size I cannot remember, let alone tell you, most of the details) :
I was on a cliff with my brother and mother. I go to the edge of the cliff, slip, fall down and into the water. I here my family panic above me. I drown.
All becomes white, and the light fades away to a view of a sunny landscape. A man in tan clothes and a small entourage greet me. He tells me what is happening. I am dead, and here I am now in heaven. I am extremely content despite the situation. The man leads me on a tour of heaven. It is a sunny field, with small round mounds of grass covered earth (like the Windows XP desktop or Teletubbie land, if you know what I mean), and people are having fun rolling down them. I have a go; this is apparently the favourite past time in heaven; having fun. Most people are children, the same age that I was at the time (twelve). Rolling down the hill is extremely fun; people are very happy and none of them seem ill or disabled. There are tables and people are playing other games simila to chess.
Over the next 40 years, I do not age and neither do the other inhabitants. I spend my time peacefully playing and resting. I work in the Church of St. John. He is my best friend now, dearer than any on Earth. He has brown hair, is adult, and is extremely kind, and dare I say it has similar interests to me. I call him John. Every day, the inhabitants of heaven, perhaps 24 or so, come to the Church for a casual meeting. I know all the dead like classmates and friends. I am content with being dead, and death itself.
I never once see Jesus, God, or any angels or supernatural beings. We are all clothed and human. The sun never sets; we never sleep. There is nothing like tiredness. I never question any elements of the dream, such as why only 24 or so in heaven? *
I think throughout the dream I never question the reality of it because if you died you would expect reality to fall apart. *
At the end, my brother enters heaven. Me and John wait for him. My mother or any other relatives, even anyone I know, are not in heaven. My mother is still alive. I say to my brother: 'I have waited 40 years for you.', and then wake, feeling enlightened to have had the experience.
Identity, are you claiming you have lived the equivelant of your age + 40 years?
Not strictly, no. It's just that I had a dream long ago that portrayed itelf as 40 years long. Quite how long it felt, I'm not sure... it was so long ago, but it sure was long. It was kind of a long "pause" - sorry, I cannot explain further.Quote:
Originally posted by ModestMouse
Identity, are you claiming you have lived the equivelant of your age + 40 years?
I'll probably sound completely crazy for saying this but I needed to share somewhere...
On Christmas Eve I told myself, with no prior thought or reason to really do so, that I was going to have a lucid dream right before going to bed, having never tried before. Immediately after I did that I said "No I'm not..." and fell asleep. Anyway, I didn't think about that again until I left to go back to school and I at some point remembered I had said that, and some things started to make sense. Anyway, I spent some time meditating in this meadow next to the dorms (something I've never really practiced at all) and it a point where the whole world just started revolving around me... I got scared, not thinking about it possibly being a dream, and told whatever it was (my subconcious?) that I didn't want to be in control, and told it to take control. Anyway, that incident scared me a lot and I ended up withdrawing from school and moving home, where things still get stranger... Without giving any specific examples it seems as if my senses are really all coming out of me rather than coming in through my eyes... for example, everything looked like it was in technicolor for awhile and I told myself time travel was possible for awhile and during that time I would have black and white flashes sometimes... Plus some of the things that happened at school sort of happened inversely here at home... Basically my point is it seems like I'm stuck in a parallel dimension where I feel like a ghost and just not knowing if I'm awake or asleep is confusing. To add to it, last night one of my family cats was in my room and I could almost control how she acted by wishing for it... some times it seemed like she was teleporting or something... I sound completely crazy but while all of this is happening I'm still just living my life, it's just pretty scary any enough things have happened to make me doubt that the reality I'm in is real at all. It seems like I was sucked into the movie It's A Wonderful Life or something a lot of the time. Spirit of Christmas or something, I don't know... A lot of the time it seems as if some game was set up for me and I forgot the rules.
A few strange things I can think of that were strange would be feeling breezes in my room while I concentrate on, cloud watching and seeing actual images similar related to my thoughts appear (like really appear), and while there are a lot of other things (stranger than I've mentioned but I'd rather not get into it) when my mom picked me up from school the night I meditated I said with full confidence that I thought this was all a lucid dream and she replied that she suspected as much... The fact that my computer works fine boggled my mind for awhile after reading about electronics not working right, but I recall my computer's passwords and stuff not working right during the end of december and me having to sort of feel my way into making it work right again... I don't know...
Anyway, any comments would be nice... Regardless this experience has made me incredibly interested in dreams.
Edit: It sort of seems like what happened is that if this is a dream I some how gave up control of my dream to the dream and I've been working on regaining it. Oh, and I fell in love two days before the dream and mentioned I would have a lucid dream "with you" when I went to bed... on my sister's bed. And since then me and my younger sister have had incredibly strange connections that change depending on wether or not I'm comfortable with them, like having conversations in our heads with each other. We even acknowledged it. When I brought up that I thought this was a dream to her she mentioned that I just had to accept it as real... I'm just sort of rambling at this point but another strange thing is that I've been able to look straight into the sun without my eyes hurting, look away... and have my vision just return to normal almost immediately and if anything my vision is better than I remember it being several months ago.
I mean this in the nicest possible way. But you're sounding a bit imbalanced. See a doctor, please.
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Originally posted by It Was Willow
I'll probably sound completely crazy for saying this but I needed to share somewhere...
On Christmas Eve I told myself, with no prior thought or reason to really do so, that I was going to have a lucid dream right before going to bed, having never tried before. *Immediately after I did that I said "No I'm not..." and fell asleep. *Anyway, I didn't think about that again until I left to go back to school and I at some point remembered I had said that, and some things started to make sense. *Anyway, I spent some time meditating in this meadow next to the dorms (something I've never really practiced at all) and it a point where the whole world just started revolving around me... I got scared, not thinking about it possibly being a dream, and told whatever it was (my subconcious?) that I didn't want to be in control, and told it to take control. *Anyway, that incident scared me a lot and I ended up withdrawing from school and moving home, where things still get stranger... Without giving any specific examples it seems as if my senses are really all coming out of me rather than coming in through my eyes... for example, everything looked like it was in technicolor for awhile and I told myself time travel was possible for awhile and during that time I would have black and white flashes sometimes... Plus some of the things that happened at school sort of happened inversely here at home... Basically my point is it seems like I'm stuck in a parallel dimension where I feel like a ghost and just not knowing if I'm awake or asleep is confusing. *To add to it, last night one of my family cats was in my room and I could almost control how she acted by wishing for it... some times it seemed like she was teleporting or something... I sound completely crazy but while all of this is happening I'm still just living my life, it's just pretty scary any enough things have happened to make me doubt that the reality I'm in is real at all. *It seems like I was sucked into the movie It's A Wonderful Life or something a lot of the time. *Spirit of Christmas or something, I don't know... *A lot of the time it seems as if some game was set up for me and I forgot the rules.
A few strange things I can think of that were strange would be feeling breezes in my room while I concentrate on, cloud watching and seeing actual images similar related to my thoughts appear (like really appear), and while there are a lot of other things (stranger than I've mentioned but I'd rather not get into it) when my mom picked me up from school the night I meditated I said with full confidence that I thought this was all a lucid dream and she replied that she suspected as much... *The fact that my computer works fine boggled my mind for awhile after reading about electronics not working right, but I recall my computer's passwords and stuff not working right during the end of december and me having to sort of feel my way into making it work right again... I don't know...
Anyway, any comments would be nice... *Regardless this experience has made me incredibly interested in dreams.
Edit: It sort of seems like what happened is that if this is a dream I some how gave up control of my dream to the dream and I've been working on regaining it. *Oh, and I fell in love two days before the dream and mentioned I would have a lucid dream "with you" when I went to bed... on my sister's bed. *And since then me and my younger sister have had incredibly strange connections that change depending on wether or not I'm comfortable with them, like having conversations in our heads with each other. *We even acknowledged it. *When I brought up that I thought this was a dream to her she mentioned that I just had to accept it as real... *I'm just sort of rambling at this point but another strange thing is that I've been able to look straight into the sun without my eyes hurting, look away... and have my vision just return to normal almost immediately and if anything my vision is better than I remember it being several months ago.
Definitely imbalanced, mostly I'd say because of thinking I'm dreaming... I'm not looking for validation, I'm just becoming more and more terrified of myself.Quote:
Originally posted by ModestMouse
I mean this in the nicest possible way. But you're sounding a bit imbalanced. See a doctor, please.
e: And I do see a psychologist and a psychiatrist (psychologist for personal reasons, psychiatrist with my family mostly because of my younger sister).
e2: Anyway, just posting this helped my mental state a lot. I just had to let it out I guess. Regardless of dreams I've had an intense past two months.
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Originally posted by It Was Willow
I'll probably sound completely crazy for saying this but I needed to share somewhere...
On Christmas Eve I told myself, with no prior thought or reason to really do so, that I was going to have a lucid dream right before going to bed, having never tried before. *Immediately after I did that I said "No I'm not..." and fell asleep. *Anyway, I didn't think about that again until I left to go back to school and I at some point remembered I had said that, and some things started to make sense. *Anyway, I spent some time meditating in this meadow next to the dorms (something I've never really practiced at all) and it a point where the whole world just started revolving around me... I got scared, not thinking about it possibly being a dream, and told whatever it was (my subconcious?) that I didn't want to be in control, and told it to take control. *Anyway, that incident scared me a lot and I ended up withdrawing from school and moving home, where things still get stranger... Without giving any specific examples it seems as if my senses are really all coming out of me rather than coming in through my eyes... for example, everything looked like it was in technicolor for awhile and I told myself time travel was possible for awhile and during that time I would have black and white flashes sometimes... Plus some of the things that happened at school sort of happened inversely here at home... Basically my point is it seems like I'm stuck in a parallel dimension where I feel like a ghost and just not knowing if I'm awake or asleep is confusing. *To add to it, last night one of my family cats was in my room and I could almost control how she acted by wishing for it... some times it seemed like she was teleporting or something... I sound completely crazy but while all of this is happening I'm still just living my life, it's just pretty scary any enough things have happened to make me doubt that the reality I'm in is real at all. *It seems like I was sucked into the movie It's A Wonderful Life or something a lot of the time. *Spirit of Christmas or something, I don't know... *A lot of the time it seems as if some game was set up for me and I forgot the rules.
A few strange things I can think of that were strange would be feeling breezes in my room while I concentrate on, cloud watching and seeing actual images similar related to my thoughts appear (like really appear), and while there are a lot of other things (stranger than I've mentioned but I'd rather not get into it) when my mom picked me up from school the night I meditated I said with full confidence that I thought this was all a lucid dream and she replied that she suspected as much... *The fact that my computer works fine boggled my mind for awhile after reading about electronics not working right, but I recall my computer's passwords and stuff not working right during the end of december and me having to sort of feel my way into making it work right again... I don't know...
Anyway, any comments would be nice... *Regardless this experience has made me incredibly interested in dreams.
Edit: It sort of seems like what happened is that if this is a dream I some how gave up control of my dream to the dream and I've been working on regaining it. *Oh, and I fell in love two days before the dream and mentioned I would have a lucid dream "with you" when I went to bed... on my sister's bed. *And since then me and my younger sister have had incredibly strange connections that change depending on wether or not I'm comfortable with them, like having conversations in our heads with each other. *We even acknowledged it. *When I brought up that I thought this was a dream to her she mentioned that I just had to accept it as real... *I'm just sort of rambling at this point but another strange thing is that I've been able to look straight into the sun without my eyes hurting, look away... and have my vision just return to normal almost immediately and if anything my vision is better than I remember it being several months ago.
That's amazing. What I don't understand is why it makes you feel terrified of yourself. Obviously I can't say I understand how you're feeling, but I would say in such a situation it's best to just acknowledge that this must be reality. Whether it is or not, (and as far as I can tell, I'm pretty real >.>) wouldn't it be better to accept it?
Let's say all this actually isn't real. Why would it matter now that you're in this state? Why would it make you feel terrified?
Back on topic. As far as I can recall I've never had any dreams last much longer than they could have in real time. Not even for a day or anything.
Also, I've read several times that events in dreams have been proven to pass in real time rather than everything happening much faster than you experience it. Does that mean that when someone is in a dream for a day/week/year or even for 40 years, they've simply only experienced the things that were "important" during this time in real time? or do our dream experiences actually pass much faster sometimes after all?
That's all for now, thanks for reading ^.^
Must have been about four days. I don't really have any time system in my dreams, though.
whoah! how much practice does it take to learn how to make your dreams seem likes weeks?!
I can't really determine how long my dreams are. Sometimes I'll be be sleeping for 30 minutes and have a dream that seems to last forever...other times I'll be sleeping for hours and my dreams seem to last for only minutes...
According to EWLD, however, time does apply in dreams, so I don't really understand how it works...