Time control

Hey. I think I had my first Lucid Dream last night, but it was a little short. Then a friend recommended this site and I joined and blah blah blah this is unimportant. My question is this:

Is it possible to control the percieved passage of time by making your mind process faster? Like being able to experience days or weeks or months or even years or lifetimes in a single second? It doesn't seem completely impossible... I'm talking about while dreaming of course. I have tried this while awake, but it usually doesn't work too well considering that if you actually get it to work, it tends to have no benefit whatsoever anyway since your body and reasoning is slowed as well. However, if you were somehow able to dream faster, you could experience so much more in such a short period of time...

Well bro i got your back here, i always wonder if i can control time in dreams. If i slow time down can i run on walls like in the Matrix? can i fly faster? run faster? i think its possible....i mean i f ou have a good idea of what its like to slow time down your mind should be able to process the illusion right?

This topic has been asked and answered a few times... a search should show up a bunch of useful information. Anyway, I'll try to sum it up a little bit.

LaBerge proved that a second of dreaming is very close to a second of real life. What happens though, is that a dream is kind of like a movie... scenes jump from one place to the other, from day to night, to day again. So, even though only a few minutes have passed, it may seem like a day has passed, since it turned from day to night, back to day.

As far as slowing time down in a dream, its also possible. I'm able to freeze the dream (as long as I don't move... if I start moving, the dream starts moving as well). That doesn't mean I froze time in real life though. If I spend 30 seconds just watching the frozen dream, and frozen characters, and birds and everything, then 30 seconds will have passed in real life... even though the dream was "frozen".

Hope that helps. Keep dreaming! :)

oh...yeah i read that in La Berge's book but for example, you run in your dream and you focus on slowing time down: what i think would happen is that you dont slow time down but instead you start running faster! i mean it makes sence to me

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Originally Posted by SEBSTER

oh...yeah i read that in La Berge's book but for example, you run in your dream and you focus on slowing time down: what i think would happen is that you dont slow time down but instead you start running faster! i mean it makes sence to me

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That makes sense in a physics and time perception model of real life. Like in the Matrix...

In the dreams though, I think just depends on how your mind reacts. Like I said about my dreams, when I try to freeze time, everything starts going slower and slower (and eventually I freeze time), but as everything is going slower, I start going slower as well. Once I freeze time, if I try to move, or punch someone, then time starts up again very slowly, and I start moving very slowly too.

I tried many times in my lucids to freeze time when some bad guy is attacking me... when I freeze time, the guy has a sword within inches of hitting me. Time is frozen. Then I try walking away/hitting him as time is frozen, but as I start slowly moving, his blade slowly moves towards me as well, so I have to try to dodge it and make a compromise between freezing time or running/flying away.

In my opinion, it is probably a pretty advanced thing to do to try to slow time down for everything else, while you remain at normal speed, thus making you walk/run faster than everyone else in a Matrix fashion. By contrast, it's much easier to be able to run/fight/fly faster than anyone in your dreams, while time remains at normal speed.

Its back to the time perception thingy again, i think that it should be possible to do but many people who have had more lucid dreams than me say it is not possible or is very hard to do, especially if your trying to lengthen a lucid dream,.

i think that if someone decides to slow time down rather than stopping it might is endlessly more possible. If i tried to just fight faster than my opponent in a dream i think i would just fight faster rather than slowing time down since fast speed is an easier thing to do in a dream and it is also what makes time slow down. Just like when The Flash ran up to a bad guy to save the chick people it almost seems he slowed time down and ran up to the bad guy at normal speed but in reality he just ran fast enough for everything else around him to slow down.:banana:

I don't think this is a surefire way to do this but it works for me. I've had people that have no clue what lucid dreams are and don't remember their dreams and it wirked for them. First, when i lie in bed, then i look at my arlarm clock. Lets say it's 9:00 PM. I count on my fingers by five. So each finger gets five hours. Now counting on your fingers say outlound i have 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 hours of sleep. (this only works if you beleive that you do. When you go to sleep if done right you should have a very long dream like days. Now all you have to do is just have a lucid dream in one of these dreams and you will have a long dream.

Or when you wake up you won't by tired at all.

I've experemented with this for a while it does work but i would recomend saying you will get 12-14 hours of sleep then work you way up. Just when your conting on your hands since you ussualy get 8 hours of sleep you should only use your first eieght fingers and count by 2s.

Yeah i suck at writing in general, if you need help just ask.

Wow i have never heard of this method, it makes complete sence! i gotta give it a go

It's not something everyone knows. I just do it. Funny thing is i can'tremember when i made it up.

Please tell me if it worked i would love to see if it did work for others.:)

Hey are you still there taallllkkk too mmmeee nnnnnnoooooooo:bang:

oh sorry, well i tried that method last night and i gotta say the dream did last a while, i counted by 2s up to 10 and i think it made my dreams longer but i gotta try it again to make sure:) but great method!

That's great I wanna see if it works for everyone else too.:)

This is a long topic that probably will take many pages. There are two perspectives, one is people believe that yes its possible to control time, but on the other hand people think its only possible to control time, if you can control your outlook on time in real life. Like if you can make time go fast in real life than is definatly fast in a dream. This is a highly debatable topic.

Stabilization does wonders for length. Look at your hands. Look at your surroundings. Don't move until you've taken at least a couple minutes to scrutinize every single detail. Do this periodically throughout the dream.

I had a lucid once which went over the span of an entire day, morning to evening to night... I did not do this conciously.

wow thats amazing abra

I dont know about time speeding up or anything, but I had my first LD the other day, in which i rescued a woman that was a character in my dream before i became lucid, i turned back time to do this. Although i did make my view go high overhead to get a birds eye view of the scene. It was kind of like a strategy game.

time dialation. a popular subject.

I don't have the time to fully read this thread and discuss but searching for time dialation should yeild results. Plus, its unlikely that most points will only be repeats of what has been said before.

There was some guy here in late 2004 who claimed he spent 40 years in a lucid dream in one night. He said he lived day after day, each of which was as long as his days in waking life, and even had children and watched them grow up. I kept somewhat of an open mind about it and waited to see lots of other people make similar claims, but it has not happened yet. :chuckle:

I had an entire day at the beach in a lucid a few years ago. However, I couldn't account for every single moment. I was sitting on the beach, and then I was under a pavillion, and then I was on a raft in the water, then sitting on the beach again, etc. It skipped around and only appeared to be a real day's worth of events.

I think it would be impossible, if not nearly impossible to percieve years in a lucid, but I think weeks, days, etc. wouldn't be as impossible as people say. I always wanted to try, but I haven't lucid dreamt in months because I suck at it. Anyway, I hear stories and I never know if people are lying, but then again I never know if they're telling the truth. The way I see it, I dont really know if it's true, but it's convinced me enough to try even though it sounds really crazy.