Longest LD Experience you can get

[lucid2go]

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.

[antiflag]

longest lucid ive ever had was probly about 10 minuets

[shotbirds]

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

[Stupidity]

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

[fleisch12]

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?

[lucid2go]

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.

[shotbirds]

usually mine will go for about 5-10 minutes, then I'll FA, then I get another 5-10 minutes :/.

[DaRkWoLf94]

Most of my lucids(3 or 4) last for 5 10 mins but one lucid lasted for 15 years

[Super Duck]

Same here. 5-10 mins.

[LimoZeen!]

Most of my lucids(3 or 4) last for 5 10 mins but one lucid lasted for 15 years 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.

[Zotoaster]

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

[WolfTsunade]

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....

[Stupidity]

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.

[Soldier]

for the ten I have had the longest was or at least seemed about 5 minutes.

[fleisch12]

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....

[AlexLou]

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.

[Vegan]

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.

[Irwanday01]

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.

[Irwanday01]

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.

[DreamingGod]

My longest and only lucid dream lasted 20mins

[Kushna Mufeed]

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.

[AlexLou]

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.

[AlexLou]

Is this actually possible? I can scarcely believe it.

[lagunagirl]

for the ten I have had the longest was or at least seemed about 5 minutes. dang that sucks! 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

[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.