80 years of dream life?

[sweetshoes18]

I do not have much time to write this... so briefly (I will re-ask it later) Is it possible to live in your dreams? Changing time LUCIDLY so you can dream of living a full life (with full experiances): Later waking up in REAL life in normal time (hours after you went lucid).

[mongreloctopus]

some people claim it's possible...there's been no sort of scientific evidence, as far as i know. i don't see why it wouldn't be possible, except that some people think time extension is a result of the movie-style cuts and fade-outs...that kind of thing.

[kr3wskater]

In an LD last night i actually thought to myself of trying to change how quickly time moves, but there were more important things on my mind... In EWOLD I remember someone saying they lived in an LD for 5 years, but every morning when they woke up they knew they were dreaming and decided to stay in the dream.

[Sarah]

I haven't had a lucid dream yet but I did have a dream once where I lived for about 9 months. It was just like it was real, job and everything, pretty amazing when i woke up and relaized that it was just tomorrow. it wasn't Lucid but just as effective in changing my perspective a little bit. It's pretty fun getting to live without having to actually live... lol. 5 years?! wow, scary, when i woke up I remembered how 9 months shocked me, 5 years would freak me out!

[Ubik]

If your mind believes that you spent 80 years in a dream then I guess you can. I don't believe that you experience every second of every minute of that 80 years it's more like mongeraloctopus said, the "the movie-style cuts and fade-outs" effect. another example is, I could dream that I am waiting at a bus stop, the next thing I know I am getting off the bus at a new location - however, my mind creates a false memory - I remember the bus turning up and me getting on it even though I didn't experience it. But to be honest, who knows? There is a chance that I'll reply to this tomorrow having spent 80 years in a Lucid Dream... with any luck

[Manifold_Time]

My memory is a little hazy here, but my point is firm. Correct anything wrong. I read a book by Rita Carter called Exploring Consciousness. There was an experiment done where a surgeon would touch a certain point on a person's brain that imitates touch on a part of their body and a point on their hand (the patient is awake during this operation). When the surgeon touched the person's brain and his/her hand at the same time, the patient reported the feeling created by the touch on their brain after the feeling on their hand. The sensory signals created by the touch on the brain is supposed to be faster than the information being sent from the hand. This means that the patient's "consciousness" has created this time illusion and tricked the patient into thinking something different from reality. An easier understood example would be to smoke a dooby. That creates a time illusion.

[Keurslager]

As Manifold said, the subjective sense of time can be altered quite easily using certain drugs. My experience into the topic is limited, but from my own experience that time seems to slow down more than threefold while on DXM, but not a lot with weed. From what I've heard some people can live entire lifetimes tripping on salvia and DMT, probably due to changes in the function of the pineal gland (internal clock), so it may very well be possible to change the sense of time in dreams and real life through biofeedback etc, although it is probably hard to reach, though someone might be able to try using DXM and lucid dreaming while at it to see if the time distortion persists while asleep.

[TravisE]

Sometimes when I look at my watch immediately after waking up, the seconds will seem to be ticking by much faster than they should be. Once when it happened, it was startling because each second seemed to last only about half a second. After staring at it for a few seconds, it gradually seemed to slow back down to normal. I don't remember experiencing any dreams that have had more than about 60-120 minutes of apparent experienced time. I have had a couple of dreams before where I had woken up many times in the middle of the night in the dream, giving the impression of a dream that had lasted the entire night. Of course, since I was "asleep" during most of the dream, my actual experienced time wasn't much more than a few minutes, and the dream itself couldn't have spanned much more than a few minutes in real time (because I had woken up earlier in the morning before having the dream, so I know it didn't actually last that long, not even in the form of several separate dreams). I have false memories in dreams quite often, and these memories can become confusing when it comes to events that seem to have been repeated in the dream. I am never sure when I wake up if those events in the dream had actually repeated or just seemed to have repeated. I've even had a couple of dreams where it seemed as if the entire dream was replayed once or twice before I woke up, but it's never clear if that actually happened.