Brain speed prolongs dreams

[Death-Wuad]

I was thinking about how a person would be able to spend 90 years in a dream (I forget who it was), and I have come to a conclusion of how such a thing would be done. So how could 90 years fit into a couple of hours? Relativity. Your brain has enormous power to generate thoughts at remarkable speeds. So when you are experiencing those thoughts one by one, it would appear to take a very long time to go through wouldn't it? Next time I have a lucid dream, I'm going to try and use this logic to prolong a dream (It doesn't matter if it doesn't work like that, remember the placebo effect?) Any thoughts on this?

[Placebo]

Exactly as you said. Its similar to the movies, where the trip from the house to the shop takes a few seconds, but you don't really notice that. Your mind does the same thing, by 'filling in' the gaps with fuzzy things mainly because you never really thought about the gaps while dreaming... they just happened with no interesting events.

[sme_bro]

i dunno if it is like this your you guys but when that car-ride/tripo to the shop thing happens in an LD i usualy fail to notice it at the time, its not untill i wake up that i question where that time went

[Howie]

How are thoughts generated and then sent? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. One of Einstiens theoris is that the closer you got to traveling at the speed of light the slower time would go. Any relevence? I don't know. I just thought I would throw that out there. Nuerotransmitters. Do they go the speed of light?

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by Howetzer Nuerotransmitters. Do they go the speed of light? No they do not. A neurotransmitter transmits chemicals to neuro receptors. Chemicals cannot travel at the speed of light, only light can. But I agree with Death-Wuad in that a certain amount of relativity IS involved in dreaming. Plus, the brain compiles thoughts/memories much differently in dreams than in real life. They are not necessarily linear either. Keep in mind also, things can be faster in dreams because you allow for much less sensory wise. For example: in real life, light from a tree travels to your eyes, your eyes pick up the image, the image travels along the optic nerve, the nerve sends this signal to your brain to be processed into an image of a tree. When you dream, most of that is skipped because the image started in your mind to begin with.

[Tsen]

Here's a tidbit I found while doing some research on relativity a while ago that seemed prevalent here: A Native American tribe (I couldn't give a specific one at the moment, if I find it I'll notify everyone) believed that there were two kinds of seperate time: Waking Time, and Dream Time. During Waking Time, time progresses as we percieve it day to day. However, during Dream Time, you are excluded and entirely removed from Waking Time. That's why they believed that dreams and revelations were possible while they were asleep. Anyway, I'd be interested in seeing how far I can go in a dream as well, I'll have to try it as soon as I sleep next.

[Death-Wuad]

I'm fairly sure this would work as long as you can understand it and visualize it during a dream, unless it is completely uncontrollable (which would royally suck)

[lord soth]

im in, i saw a tv show, explaining relitivity (?) anyway, so this guy took off on a motobike, and went "near the speed of light" since going faster than, or (as fast as)?light is impossible, while he was doing that, his brother was sitting on a bench, and then after a little bit his brother returned, and his brother was an old fart.... anyway...

[salamnder]

Here is my 2 cents. In a dream, the timeline can change at any moment. I realized that last night, anyways, if you were "dreaming" for 90 years that would be an 90 years worth of segments of dreams at different lenghts of dreamtime. To make it sound all scientific, the farther you go from time 0 in real-time spent dreaming, the closer you come to infinent time in dream-time. Evan

[Placebo]

Originally posted by salamnder Here is my 2 cents. *In a dream, the timeline can change at any moment. *I realized that last night, anyways, if you were \"dreaming\" for 90 years that would be an 90 years worth of segments of dreams at different lenghts of dreamtime. *To make it sound all scientific, the farther you go from time 0 in real-time spent dreaming, the closer you come to infinent time in dream-time. Evan Well said

[Amethyst Star]

Here's my 2 bits I agree with whoever talked about the images created in our minds so that things to take so long in our dreams. I was also thinking that without the outside stimuli to distract the brain it can generate thoughts faster than in the waking world. Have you ever kind of spaced off IRL and either daydreamed or let your mind wander and when you come back you find that only a few seconds have gone by? The whole process of going thorugh those thoughts seemed to have taken several minutes, but in reality it was a very short amount of time. I'm just think that since our mind doesn't have to worry too much about extraneous activity it can focus more on thoughts, possibly allowing it to run faster. Take a computer: the more programs you have running, the slower it's going to go. Just a thought. -Amé

[Death-Wuad]

I pretty much agree with you. I read in an article about your sense of time in a dream, the person would clench his fist after 10 seconds. I think the test is flawed because you are connecting yourself back to your physical body, which means you have to get back to the normal perception of time.