Thread: Time travel

We all already are Time Travellers. We simply are only able to travel into the future, and even then, only as fast as time runs itself.

"Time Travel" as it's commonly understood, through dreams? No, I don't think so. It's possible, as everything is conceptually possible in our universe, but the odds are so low that the universe will likely end in a big crunch or heat death before it ever happens.

Time seems to pass so quickly for us when we sleep because our bodies release chemicals into the bloodstream which slow down our metabolisms, as well as our neural timepiece, so that our biological rhythyms are kept in synch with the slowdown.

Originally Posted by Maxwell Clark

i read somewhere that dreams may feel like they are two hours long but in real life they are only a couple minutes, if you were lucid would this still happen? would that be a form of time travel?

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I don't think so, since it's simply your perception of reality. Your physical body is moving at the same speed as everything else. To me that's like saying, "If I watch a video on fast-forward, am I traveling through time?"

Of course then you could get into a debate about what is and isn't reality. But that's how I feel about it.

On dream length: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=55784

Yes, you can have a lucid dream that feels as if it's hours long only to find out you've been sleeping for 5 minutes. It's happened to me.

As for it being actual time travel, i'd have to say no. I've not experienced anything that I'd say is real time travel even when, in lucid dreams, I travelled forward or backward in time.

I had a dream a couple of years ago where I learned how to travel backward and forward in time by using my dreams to jump into the consiousness of my past and future selves. NOt that that answers anything. Just thought I'd share that dream.

Originally Posted by Shift

I don't think so, since it's simply your perception of reality. Your physical body is moving at the same speed as everything else. To me that's like saying, "If I watch a video on fast-forward, am I traveling through time?"

Of course then you could get into a debate about what is and isn't reality. But that's how I feel about it.

On dream length: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=55784

Yeah, I think this the fast-forward thing is the best way to describe it. It's only your perception of time.

Perception of time in dreams hasn't been studied properly (as far as I know - not in any detail, anyway) and there are still a lot of things about it that are unknown. It's hard to say for sure how it works, but it definitely is possible. But that still wouldn't constitute time travel, because even if you manage to do it you are still only affecting your perception of time.

Originally Posted by Maxwell Clark

i read somewhere that dreams may feel like they are two hours long but in real life they are only a couple minutes, if you were lucid would this still happen? would that be a form of time travel?

discuss

Its just perception, and therefore not time travel. Although it is interesting.

I read that you can practise physical motor movements (playing soccer)cognitive skills (memory) e.t.c in lucid dreams and improve in them in reality. With this concept in mind I wonder if you could get 10 hours practise in 5 real time minutes with this time dilation concept? If you get my drift.

Originally Posted by psychology student

Its just perception, and therefore not time travel. Although it is interesting.

I read that you can practise physical motor movements (playing soccer)cognitive skills (memory) e.t.c in lucid dreams and improve in them in reality. With this concept in mind I wonder if you could get 10 hours practise in 5 real time minutes with this time dilation concept? If you get my drift.

I read the same thing, I think it was in EWOLD. Something like the fact that your neurons would fire and develop the habitual stereotypic motions that you use in things like playing soccer or playing a violin, but you don't actually act that out in your dreams because of the paralysis. I guess in that case, the only limit would be the frequency of the neurons firing before you wake up. That's always been one of my goals, once I get better at lucid dreaming!

It's like Lorentz contraction of the mind