Thread: Longest LD Experience you can get

Originally Posted by Shift

I have no idea how people can judge how long they were in an LD for, seeing as they were asleep. Anyone want to clarify this?

I can say that my longest happened during a 135 minute sleeping period, and that I would say it seemed to last maybe 10-15 minutes. Of course, I thought dreams only lasted for seconds, and I'd think that the total amount of time that it takes me to think through and relive the dream is probably the same length of time as it took to occur, if you know what I mean.

There was a study done about this. I think its in the Laberge book, exploring the world of dreaming. It found that time spent in a dream is pretty much the same as real world time. The dreams that feel like days just trick you into thinking that.

And from my 2 lucids, ive spent an amazing 25 seconds combined in them.

Originally Posted by chris31

There was a study done about this. I think its in the Laberge book, exploring the world of dreaming. It found that time spent in a dream is pretty much the same as real world time. The dreams that feel like days just trick you into thinking that.

That's interesting... I have the book, I'll have to reread it and look up the original study.

But my question is... is it only the dreams that feel like days that are tricking you? What causes that, and why can't/don't some of the dreams that last seconds trick you into thinking they've lasted minutes or hours, too? I'll look it up in the book, though. Maybe Laberge explains it well.

All dreams could trick you into thinking it was longer i think. Maybe things like your dream scene changing to new places could trick you into thinking it was a long journey. I cant realy think of anything else though lol. Maybe the sun going down quickly.
Its also in the movie Waking Life, they talk about it in one scene. A lady ses she wakes up and looks at the clock, goes back to sleep has a wonderful long dream, wake up again and its only 1 minute past. Then they go on to discuss that a bit.

Originally Posted by chris31

All dreams could trick you into thinking it was longer i think. Maybe things like your dream scene changing to new places could trick you into thinking it was a long journey. I cant realy think of anything else though lol. Maybe the sun going down quickly.
Its also in the movie Waking Life, they talk about it in one scene. A lady ses she wakes up and looks at the clock, goes back to sleep has a wonderful long dream, wake up again and its only 1 minute past. Then they go on to discuss that a bit.

That's a good point, about the traveling seeming to take time. That is what I'm talking about. It can happen in seconds, but you interpret it as taking much longer.
I hardly think we can use examples in a movie though. That's insane, I wonder if it was based on a "true" story. It takes me more than a minute just to fall asleep! Was she narcoleptic or something?

I wasnt trying to use the movie as an example or true story. I was just saying it cos it discusses this very topic. Dont you ever wake up in the morning and fall asleep again very quickly? I would recomend watching the movie Waking Life. Its about Lucid Dreaming and philisophical stuff.

Originally Posted by chris31

I wasnt trying to use the movie as an example or true story. I was just saying it cos it discusses this very topic. Dont you ever wake up in the morning and fall asleep again very quickly? I would recomend watching the movie Waking Life. Its about Lucid Dreaming and philisophical stuff.

Oh no. It usually takes me forever to fall asleep Even when I wake up in the middle of the night, it takes me a while to fall back to sleep

I've been waiting to see it with one of my friends, hopefully we will get around to it this summer. I still think Abre los Ojos is the best dreaming movie ever haha

I've had many lucid dreeams but I think that the longest is 2 minutes... The time it took to find that smiley is the average length of my lucid dreams...

Well, aruguably, you dream for the entire period of REM, and less vivid dreams in nonREM. I've just had 2 LDs resulting from a flase awakenings, and they lasted about 5 minutes each, which was mostly spent in me trying to get the lights on in my room...