Thread: Secret To Longer Lds?

I think its funny how everyone here speaks of dreams in the context of minutes or even hours. Regular dreams last 30 seconds. REM sleep, dreamwise, is just a bunch of 30-second dreams. The dreams you remember usually are the ones at the end of REM sleep, before you slowly wake up. In the idea of lucid dreaming, you can't have a dream longer 30 seconds, because that's physically impossible. To enlongate lucidity is the key, not the length of your dream.

Having a "long dream" is simply an illusion given by all that ensues withing the dream.


(all information on dream lengths are provided by my eldest brother's sleep study physician.)

Originally Posted by Lucid

I think its funny how everyone here speaks of dreams in the context of minutes or even hours. Regular dreams last 30 seconds. REM sleep, dreamwise, is just a bunch of 30-second dreams. The dreams you remember usually are the ones at the end of REM sleep, before you slowly wake up. In the idea of lucid dreaming, you can't have a dream longer 30 seconds, because that's physically impossible. To enlongate lucidity is the key, not the length of your dream.

Having a "long dream" is simply an illusion given by all that ensues withing the dream.
(all information on dream lengths are provided by my eldest brother's sleep study physician.)
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But they are near-seemlessly strung together, so it seems logical that ye may go into another one, still retaining lucidity, and previous context!

I did say the key was maintaining lucidity, but i still dont think you can at the same time have the same context throughout all of your dreams just because you're lucid. in my opinion, people who go to bed using a technique, and then are lucid from beginning to end, actually are only lucid at the end of REM sleep, and the idea of aquiring lucidity in the transition from wake to sleep, is just an illusion. In the same way that people remember the dreams only towards the end of REM, i believe that lucid dreamers only remember the dreams they had towards the end. It only makes sense. So in saying that, lucididy is not aquired through any technique, but comes about naturally with the aid of reality checks and the sheer will to want to have a lucid dream at the end of REM sleep.