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How long can you stay in a lucid dream? It would be cool to stay up all night. Problem is you would need to download your LD into shadow memory. So a good 1 hour would feel maybe like 2 hours. Wake up write it in a dream diary to exercise shadow memory recall. I've got a trick to get past the lack of REM state when you hit the void. Spin your dream body in a circle. That will retain hypnogic images and you will cheat waking up from being lucid in non REM.
longest lucid ive ever had was probly about 10 minuets
few minutes but some have lead to a FA and I had to restart from there...
My last was about 5-10mins, Im a noob tho
I'm also really interested in this subject.
Ive personally been lucid for like 10 min in my dreams but Ive had dreams that have lasted what felt like 2 hours.
Can you be lucid for 2 hours and can a master lucid dreamer stretch out their dreams?
That would be awesome because I hear that some dreams can last days:shock:
Ive been lucid dreaming for quite a while now, and a long afternoon nap i had today with 3 or 4 separate lucids lasting about 2 minutes each inspired me to come find a good forum to share with others and learn about their own methods and experiences.
About two weeks ago I was trapped in a lucid dream that lasted about 2 hours perceptual time. It was horrible and amazing. I found myself inundated with an absurdly realistic environment, knowing it was either in my head, or that my astral body was witnessing parallel environments (which i think is more accurate according to the radical new M-theories in theoretical physics).
ANywayy.... to the point. Its all about oversleeping, or sleeping when you dont feel like you have to. You can really get into good consecutive lucids, but for me, I used the tricks that keep me lucid too much in that instance, and I got stuck. I thought I might have been dead. It was really really powerful Be careful! But Be Brave!
Anyone else have any similar experiences?
It's ok to have a long lucid dream. I really strongly believe that having a lucid dream in or out of your home is A-OK. The real fulfillment is to remember all your dreams with as much memory as possible. That way you remember living your dreams. That way you can stay up most of your night in a lucid dream. Think of lucid dreaming as your home world. And obeing out of a lucid dream as a alternative option.
usually mine will go for about 5-10 minutes, then I'll FA, then I get another 5-10 minutes :/.
Most of my lucids(3 or 4) last for 5 10 mins but one lucid lasted for 15 years
Same here. 5-10 mins.
15 years? That sounds like that one episode of TNG (if anyone else watches that lol) where Picard passes out and experiences a whole lifetime.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaRkWoLf94
If you have one of those lucid dreams that last say 50 years, does it actually feel like you're living a whole life? That would be interesting. If you did that every night you would feel like you've lived for 1000s of years :D
Living in a dream would be awesome! I would probably cut up my dream in sections. First I'd do extremely scary thing(being careful not to wake myself), then I'd relax in a private place alone, talk to people, then more scary stuff, then some fun stuff, some more relaxing...and it goes on and on....
I wonder if you can control the time spent in dreams somehow...
I really want to try this somehow but I'm no where near that level.:?
for the ten I have had the longest was or at least seemed about 5 minutes.
In the dream that I mentioned earlier, I remember it lasting hours on end, maybe 2 or 3 hours. But once woke up, the memories compressed into small fragments, as if looking back on a distant childhood memory. So it wasn't 2 hours of memories, but i knew it was a 2 hour dream....
Wasn't this in a thread before?
Well, anyway, I've had lucids last for about an hour. I know because I looked at the clock before and after. I wake myself up from these long lucids when I realize that I'm forgetting things because I want to write down what's happened. I'm sure that I could have ones that last longer; if I didn't wake myself, who knows how long I'd be lucid.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if I have had lucids that are much longer. The thing is I wouldn't remember if I did. If I have a lucid dream in the morning before waking up I won't remember the part where I became lucid so I couldn't say how long I'd been lucid for. Sometimes I suspect that I've been lucid all night since I tend to both WILD in the evenings and wake up in the morning from lucids.
My longest lucid dream lasted for what seemed a few days.
My general time stopping methods are looking at a clock and then stopping the hands, destroying digital clocks, assuring myself that time has stopped.
It took me a while, but it helped me to increase the length of my dreams.
If you want to increase length of your lucid dreams, try this:
During your next 2-3 lucid dreams do nothing at all except rc's and techniques to increase the length of the dream( spinning, rubbing hands, etc.)
This might increase your dream focus and help you become more alert of when you are starting to lose awareness in your dreams.
I have not tried this because I haven't had many lucid dreams so far, but during my next lucid dream I am going to try this.
Well I became Lucid last night and my first reaction was to jump out of the window( I don't know why, I just decided to) but I did remember to rub my hands together and look at them for the entire lucid. The lucid portion of the dream only lasted about 15 seconds. I attribute the short length of the dream to 2 factors. 1) I haven't had many lucid dreams so my control is not great yet. 2 ) I was flying while trying to do this so my focus was not great.
My longest and only lucid dream lasted 20mins :)
Someone has claimed to have a 100 year lucid. Can't remember where I read it. Either "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" or the Wikibook on LDs.
My longest has probably been 20 minutes.
Whoa, was I ever wrong! I had a lucid that lasted 2 and a half hours this morning. I was woken by a call from work and looked at the time before I fell back asleep. I WILDed on purpose and experienced SP before I started dreaming. And everything was fairly continuous: I can't recall every detail now but there are no major gaps and I can recall all the major transitions.
Is this actually possible? I can scarcely believe it.
dang that sucks! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Soldier
My lucid dreams last forever! my first few only lasted about 10 minutes, but after I got the hang of it, they last from about 30 - 45 minutes. One lasted an hour once... and I was starting to think that it was real life because 1) it felt so real and 2) it had lasted so long. I had to keep RCing every 5 minutes cause I would start to think "there's no way this is a dream. It doesn't feel right"
too bad I dont really LD all that much anyway. or havent lately at least
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.
well if the dream seems to last a half an hour, and you wake up and your clock is a half an hour later than when you fell asleep, considering you fell asleep fairly quickly after looking at your clock, I think one might come to the conclusion that their lucid dream was in fact a half an hour long, wouldn't you say?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
Well . . . when I know how long I've been lucid dreaming it's because I started with SP and was lucid immediately before I woke up (and had no major gaps in between). I also looked at my clock before and after. Still . . . there's no way to say for sure . . . I could have missed something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
But it did take me about an hour to write it down, and I was writing quickly and summing up repetitive parts.
Well no, I would say that you spent some time trying to fall asleep, spent some time unconscious, then began dreaming for a short period of time right before waking up, and then looked at your clock. You can't tell how long a dream was just by looking at your clock. I believe that the majority of the time is spent just unconscious while sleeping, or in non-lucids that you don't even remember, and not to mention, you often wake up but don't remember it. So if you stirred in your sleep at 29 minutes, fell back asleep but didn't remember waking, and then had a lucid that seemed to last 5 minutes, but really only lasted one minute... then what?Quote:
Originally Posted by lagunagirl
Think about all the time you spend sleeping when you don't remember any dreams at all. I've slept for 8 hours straight and not had/recalled a single dream. If I had had a dream, and spent all 8 hours straight asleep, would you say that the dream lasted 8 hours?
That is a good point. The majority of my LDs are DILD, in which case I think you can't really judge the time passing. For people who can WILD and etc., the case is definitely different. I'm sure there are Polysomnographs and such that can measure this time spent, at least in REM. I don't know much about that sort of thing, though :(Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexLou
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Originally Posted by lagunagirl
yea but I plan on getting much better.:)
well since my lucids have been short I estimate the time one lucid went like this.Quote:
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.
1) walking through a store
2)realized that I was in a dream (the "shit I'm dreaming! moment)
3)ran down the hall for about 30 meters
4) summoned a girl from my school
5)walked over to her and was about to fuck her
6) realized running through this store naked would be more fun:D
7)started undressing
8)dream became burry all of a sudden
9)dream ended
now I think the time it took me to do all that was about 2 minutes, the fault im quessing for waking up may have been due to excitment or just trying to rush every thing. either way I plan to do things differantly in the next lucid.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
I'm familiar with the theory of shadow memory and downloading from OBEs, but I believe that LDs do share the same method of recollection.
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 :tongue: I like my empirical evidence! :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexLou
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?
Yeah, me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
And from my 2 lucids, ive spent an amazing 25 seconds combined in them.
That's interesting... I have the book, I'll have to reread it and look up the original study.Quote:
Originally Posted by chris31
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by chris31
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.
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 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by chris31
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... :whyohwhy: 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...