Thread: Year Long Lucid Dreaming!

I'm not good at getting LD's, but I do have a fairly good level of control over them. One dream I had lasted a few days, two IIRC, but it was probably luck. Anyways I was lucid for most of it and much to my surprise after the first day of going out and doing many things, I was tired. I just fell asleep inside the dream and woke up the next morning, still in it.

I don't know why anyone would think it isn't possible to extend your dreams to last long periods of time. Everything you've ever experienced is just signals sent to and processed by your mind, so why shouldn't your mind be able to do with those what it will? Especially in a dream.

Originally Posted by subzero364

I don't know why anyone would think it isn't possible to extend your dreams to last long periods of time. Everything you've ever experienced is just signals sent to and processed by your mind, so why shouldn't your mind be able to do with those what it will? Especially in a dream.
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That's my personal opinion too, but many people disagree. I use the rational that if when you are near death your mind can flash decades before your eyes in a second, then it can probably flash days before your eyes in hours (which is what would happen in a dream). What I do agree with, though, is that normally when you have dreams where time is extended (lucid or non-lucid), what is happening is your brain is playing the dream like a movie, where you experience a few minutes of dream, and then your mind just skips a period of time, and the next part of the dream is hours/days/months/years later, with no dream in between, but it fits in perfectly with the dream, so you don't realize that your brain skipped a bunch of time, but really you only had 5 minutes of dream, lasting 5 minutes real time, not hours/days/months/years of dream lasting 5 minutes of real time. But I still believe on rare occasions you do have dreams that are not like this movie-like dream scenario, but are really hours/days/months/years of dream time crammed into a few minutes of real time.