Slow down real time in my Lucid Dreams?

[alphapanther6]

I was reading around tonight about lucid dreaming, and I came across an interesting thing about slowing down real time in lucid dreams. For example: One might be able to experience an entire week in one dream. Is this at all possible to do this on command while being lucid?

[forgotenmemory]

It might be, I think an entire year could pass by in a lucid dream if you want it to. But I don't know.

[ExoByte]

Slowing down real time is not possible, however the idea of living a week in a span of a few hours via dreams is a controversial topic. We refer to it as perceptual time dilation. Some people believe that you can do as you have mentioned, others don't. There have been many claims of doing such however.

[alphapanther6]

Slowing down real time is not possible, however the idea of living a week in a span of a few hours via dreams is a controversial topic. We refer to it as perceptual time dilation. Some people believe that you can do as you have mentioned, others don't. There have been many claims of doing such however. I didn't mean actualy slowing "real time". That is just how the website put it. I meant slowing down "in-dream" time.

[soadfreak2121]

I don't think it's ever been done on purpose succesfully. But people have had like week long LDs and in real life it had only been like two hours or something. The idea of being able to spend years in dreams really interests me, like you could live for a million years ._. Although I think I heard something like, They aren't really a week long or something It's like a movie and it says "one week later" kinda like that. There was an experiment done where they asked them to count while in the dream, and then the scientist would count too in real life and it would match up sort of. So I think it just FEELS like your dreams are longer them the time you sleep. But I guess dreams aren't real either and you just FEEL them so idk my head hurts -.-

[soadfreak2121]

If you mean like, a clock slowing down and like a whole city of dream people walking slowly and cars and that stuff. yeah you could do that, anything you can imagene is really possible.

[LucidDreamGod]

I have a friend who claims to do have stayed in a dream for an obsessivly long very hard to beleive amount of time, though I can't say I beleive it he was a respected member and dream guide here. Although his theory was that they were false memorys filling in the gaps, but he said they were very real and he could rememeber alot.

[Shark Rider]

i think its possible to do this. sometimes, saturdays for example, i have many dreams but theres one that last longer.(the last one) so when i woke up i think is like 11am and it was 2pm. sleeping 1 week may be possible but u have to be REALLY good at your LD. control

[Miracle]

If you mean like, a clock slowing down and like a whole city of dream people walking slowly and cars and that stuff. yeah you could do that, anything you can imagene is really possible. What i think he means is, slowing dream times, so that everything that happens is like real life, but in a shorter time. It's hard to explain but i will try. like say for example in real life you realize time is going by so slow, but everything is happening normally and like usually, but the feeling of time is slow and so you have much to do in that time of feeling the time slow. I think he wants to experience this kind of thing in his dream so he can make it a longer feeling dream and slower time feel, in the amount of time given until he wakes up. I have never really thought about that in a dream, but thanks now gives me something to try when i succed in lucid dreaming at will.

[Pancaka]

something similar in a way is that in a Muslim story, three travelers were made unconscious and although they felt as if they had only slept for a few hours, 50 years had passed and their beards were long and grey (or something like that)

[Ther]

that would be nice.

[darklordofyu]

Ok, so I believe that to explain this you have to imagine real time (outside your dream) and dream time (inside your dream) as two seperate lines, lets have X equal real time, and Y equal dream time. in a normal dream, without any time dilation or anything this is what it looks like (i would presume) X |-----------| Y |-----------| where as with the time dilation thing, it would be more like this X |-----------| Y |-----| but your perception of Y, was that it had taken just as much time as X had taken, and so you are able to do more, in a shorter amount of time. Basically it speeds up your brain processing speed, so that while normally you would only be able to think say 100 things a second, in your dream you could think 1000 or something. do you understand?