no the time isnt same. |
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is one second in a lucid dream equal to once second in real life? or can you experience a day in lucid dreams in only an hour of sleeping? |
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100+ Nights of LDs in my high school days.
Starting again after almost 10 years.
no the time isnt same. |
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Actually, I'm pretty sure the time IS the same. One of the first experiments done with lucid dreaming involved the eye movements of lucid dreamers. Apparently, sleep paralysis does not paralyze the extraocular muscles, meaning that if you look left in your dream, your eyes will move left. The test subject was able to induce a lucid dream, and as soon as he became lucid he was instructed to look left, count to one-onethousand, look right, repeat, etc. His eye movements were timed by an assistant, and it was found that we do in fact dream in real time. I think this whole 'time dilation' thing is fantasy. You can do whatever you want during the lucid dream, but you can't make your brain speed up and record more time passing than actually does. |
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but umm, what about this one, the gnome |
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Slow motion, yes, not slow TIME. Big difference. You could slow down your motion and do a dropkick or whatever, BUT if it seems to you in your dream that your slow kick took five seconds to execute, you would have been doing it for five real-time seconds. |
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damnit, i was wasting major time then -.- |
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If you had actually managed to slow time, you would have been thinking in slow motion as well, and you wouldn't have noticed anything. I'd be willing to bet that you could still think normally, you were just moving slowly - slow motion and not slow time. |
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People here claim to have had LDs like that. Living years in one dream. Won't know for sure until I try. |
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unless i sped up my thinking while slowing up the time |
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When I've noticed the flashing lights of the NovaDreamer in a LD the flash rate seems the same as when I'm awake, if dream time was faster or slower then the flash rate would be different. I've had many a ND though where it feels like I've been doing something for years but I think that is just a dream feeling. |
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Phsyically a dream can only last for the duration of your REM period. However there is a technique known as Time Dilation or Time Incubation in which one can increase the length of the dream to an extravagant amount of time like hours days weeks months years etc. However I have only gotten it to seem to last for a few hours, but I have heard of people getting their dreams to last for months and years. |
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I have found timing in dreams to be weird. One night i could have a dream were am in it for months yet i could have another dream were it lasts for as long as am asleep. The whole thing of stopping time in a dream i found doesnt effect ur dream time. You are whats making the timer in the dream count down to waking up you cant stop it that impossiable (or is it). |
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Are you sure those 'few hours' weren't actually the length of time you were asleep? Because if you think about this, making a dream last 'months' would require your brain to do enough thinking to fill up 'months' of normal-speed-thought-time. That means you would have to think hundreds of times faster than in a 'normal' lucid dream in order to give the illusion of months passing. Is it possible that A) These people are full of shit, or B) "Time Dilation" is simply an effect, wherein you FEEL like you've been asleep for months, but really it's only a vague memory of lots of time? |
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The way you get there isn't important, what's important is the result. If I had a LD that, to me, seemed to last forever, I'd be happy. Ofcourse the 100 years didn't really happen in 10 minutes (probably). All you have left after any dream is memories, if there's a way to improve them by adding extra time I'll take it! |
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I have had dreams that have felt as if they had lasted months. But then again the way it happens in a dream is different from real life. DUh! Wait what I meant is that lol .... In real life you feel all of the seconds, minutes, hours, days etc. |
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
To deny may be just as dangerous and misleading as to accept.
Hmmm.. *I* have never had a dream of a month or longer in which I lived moment by moment. It has always been scene changes making it feel longer. |
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
To deny may be just as dangerous and misleading as to accept.
I've grappled with the issue before - all of our memories are technically from a different person, and could be, for all we know, fabrications. In fact, most early childhood memories are probably fabrications based on things people tell us happened, instead of what we actually remember. But the point is, though it's entirely possible to have an illusion of extensive dreams, it's important to be specific about what we're discussing - is this an actual 'distortion' of time, or is it just an illusion? If we're ever going to conduct experiments on this type of thing we need a good hypothesis to jump from. |
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Some possibilities with time dilation: |
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
To deny may be just as dangerous and misleading as to accept.
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