Thread: Longest LD Experience you can get

Originally Posted by AlexLou

I see your point, but you can't really compare a night's rest to a nap since the majority, if not all, of a nap will be spent in REM.

I'm just trying to point out how wrong it is to assume that's the length of a dream... sue me, I'm a science major I like my empirical evidence!

I just think with the majority of trouble that we have actually remembering our dreams, that there must be a more accurate way of judging the length. For example, the lucid I had today was during a 2.5 hour nap. So technically I was napping. The dream felt 5 minutes long. So how long was it really?

It seems most likely to me that a dream would last as long as it would take for you to think through it and relive it... since all it is is thoughts from your mind, wouldn't take a similar amount of time? I've always heard that dreams only last seconds, anyway.

And if people can consciously slow down or speed up time in their dreams, why couldn't this happen subconsciously? Maybe all dreams are really fast, but you don't notice. Like I said, I wish we could measure so we had some hard facts to go with.

It's like the concept of time dilation and astronauts. As oneironauts, why couldn't our dream time be under the influence of (apparently biological/neurological) time dilation, too?

Originally Posted by Shift

Like I said, I wish we could measure so we had some hard facts to go with.

Yeah, me too.