Is This Possible In A Lucid Dream?

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Hey, is it possible in a lucid dream to extend the time so that in one night of lucid dreaming lasts a year within the dream but in waking life you have only been asleep for about 7 hours. just wondering, it would be interesting to try.

[Vex Kitten]

I'd say it's totally possible. I've had regular dreams that spanned a year or during a night. If it's possible in a non-LD it should be absolutely possible in a LD.

[Marvo]

Yes and no. You can get the impression, that 1 year passed, but you won't have 1 year of play-time in the dream.

[ViSions]

[quote] Yes and no. You can get the impression, that 1 year passed, but you won't have 1 year of play-time in the dream. Yeah, you might be able to keep track of time by going like 'day 55', then like 10 minutes later 'day 77' and start every day over... But it would be nice to be able to have a full year of dreaming each night.

[Adrenaline Junkie]

thats ok but i was looking for actually 1 year of playtime, i suppose that it could be possible if you told yourself to slow time down in the dream but then speed up motion if you get what i mean

[Marvo]

It can't be done, since you would have to change your conscious perception of pretty much everything in the world.

[ViSions]

It can't be done, since you would have to change your conscious perception of pretty much everything in the world. [/b] Which would take some madcore brainwashing.

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Which would take some madcore brainwashing. [/b] lol, where can i get brainwashed

[Marvo]

If you change your conscious perception of space and time, it will both change in real-life and the dreaming world, which would screw you totally.

[Xnyper]

If you change your conscious perception of space and time, it will both change in real-life and the dreaming world, which would screw you totally. [/b] I wouldn't be surprised if there were some substances that you could abuse for that purpose. I was prescribed codeine for my wisdom teeth extraction, of which I saved some. It gave me the opposite effect, I did not fall asleep, but those were the fastest 4 hours of my life. Mildly fun, but not something I would repeat.

[eclectic_dreamer]

time is infinite in dreams, so i don't see how you could keep track of it...seconds, minutes and hours become meaningless

[slimslowslider]

There's been a few posts on this - try a search 'dreams that last a lifetime' was one I think. Basically yes - the brain works so fast when unencumbered by the body its quiet possible to have dreams that seem to last a lifetime. An example I gave on a previous post was that, say your cat scratches your toe whilst asleep - the brain, in several milliseconds can construct a whole story to explain this, where e.g. you go down to the water and then a crocodile leaps out and bites you. (This happened to me&#33 I've also dreamed of whole lifetimes where I got married and had kids etc - not that difficult really - a feature film can compress this kind of story into 90 mins or so...

[Marvo]

Yes. You get the impression, that a lifetime passed, but you can't extend the time in total, that you walk around and do stuff. It's simply not possible, due to your conscious perception of time.

[Miskingo]

Yes. You get the impression, that a lifetime passed, but you can't extend the time in total, that you walk around and do stuff. It's simply not possible, due to your conscious perception of time. [/b] How are you able to say that its not possible. I know there are some posts on the site in which people experienced year long lucid dreams. Now if this is true or not is questionable, but you really have no proof to say this isnt possible. Yes. You get the impression, that a lifetime passed, but you can't extend the time in total, that you walk around and do stuff. It's simply not possible, due to your conscious perception of time. [/b] How are you able to say that its not possible. I know there are some posts on the site in which people experienced year long lucid dreams. Now if this is true or not is questionable, but you really have no proof to say this isnt possible.

[Marvo]

Scientists once prooved, that dream time was just like life time. Dream time was said to be a bit faster, but however, I can't really back this up, so I guess I loos at that one. However, if a person dreamed 1 year in one night, about 8 hours, does that mean that they stored 1 entire year of stuff in their memory, within 8 hours? Sounds somewhat impossible to me :s

[Amidreaming?]

T. Basically yes - the brain works so fast when unencumbered by the body its quiet possible to have dreams that seem to last a lifetime. An example I gave on a previous post was that, say your cat scratches your toe whilst asleep - the brain, in several milliseconds can construct a whole story to explain this, where e.g. you go down to the water and then a crocodile leaps out and bites you. [/b] basicly the same thing happend to me last night. in my dream i had broken this statue. then my alarm went off and i decided to make a music video for my parents showing me fixing the statue wtf! it was haliarious when i woke up.