Thread: 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

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

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,.