Thread: How long was your longest lucid dream?

Too much of any good thing is bad. One of the best things about lucid dreams is that they are pretty difficult to obtain, and short when you get them. If they were super easy, then we might not have dreamviews.

Than again, no dreamviews would mean no religion/spirituality section...

Originally Posted by Walms

Or fake memory, or distorted perception of time. None of these have to do with lucidity, you are confusing things there <.<

Either way, they result in the normal confused garble of dream experiences.

A Lucid dreamer is, by definition, much more aware of what is occuring.
So realistically none of these should slip by you.

Definitely had a lot of hour long ones, maybe hour and a half one.

Usually there's a lot of false awakenings in the long ones.

Or it fades to black and instead of opening my eyes in real life I just wait it out for another dream to come to picture.

I remember my first real long one was pretty incredible experience for me.

I've noticed that it's kind of hard to remember what happens during really long ones. There's so much time dialation, usually it feels even longer than an hour and once you wake up it's hard to remember every little thing that happened way early on in the dream.

i think my longest was last night which was maybe like 10 minutes? I can never remember too well because all but one of my LD's have ended with a false awakening and I never remember to reality check so I forget alot of the dream.

Non sequitur of the week:

Originally Posted by Zuma

Definitely had a lot of hour long ones, maybe hour and a half one.

Usually there's a lot of false awakenings in the long ones.

Followed by a rare insightful comment from..

Originally Posted by moonshine

..the normal confused garble of dream experiences.

Originally Posted by moonshine

Either way, they result in the normal confused garble of dream experiences.

A Lucid dreamer is, by definition, much more aware of what is occuring.
So realistically none of these should slip by you.

No they doesn't, the dreamer may just want to call it that way so it isn't confusion but stubborness.
A lucid dreamer is someone who knows they are asleep while in a dream, thats all there is to it, the rest is a plus. Belief too, plays a big role on what you accept and don't. One way or the other, they should slip by realistically.

For me it last the whole night, only if I awake for a split 5 mins then fall back into the same dream I was having. It happens with non lucid dreams as well, I can have a epic dream wake up to pee then fall back into the same dream where I left off it's great.

Longest Dream non lucid I had was about 2-3 hours. Longest lucid dream about 10-15 mins with out waking up.

I would say about 15 minutes for me. I find that throughout the course of the night (if I have an LD) I usually have more than one lucid dream, or I get pretty close to becoming lucid a second time. I don't know if the gap between would count, but then I guess it depends on the situation.

hey hey hey, who said you can't dream in deep sleep? it still happens, not as often, but "no dreams" is not true, its just unlikely.

overall, it really depends on what you define "lucid".

There's a lot of tosh being posted in this thread IMO. I can only assume that when people write about "1 hour plus long LDs" they are in fact meaning to write that the time period stated is what it seemed to be. I mean, how on earth do you even measure realtime in an LD? You can't.. and if anyone writes back "I know what time I went to sleep and looked at the clock when I woke up and I was LDing all the time", well.. that means absolutely nothing.. time dilation/expansion etc.

My favourite is the person who wrote that he/she has LDs of 1 1/2 hours duration, during which they have "loads" of FAs during said lucid dream. I can only assume that they are a) bullshitting, or b) deluded, because, as is obvious, you can't have one continuous LD with "loads of FAs" during it. Such an LD would in fact be many short LDs peppered with FAs.

What worries me somewhat about this site and many of the people thereon is the fact that I was the only one to pick up on that statement.

Now.. where are my meds?

Originally Posted by Desert Claw

hey hey hey, who said you can't dream in deep sleep? it still happens, not as often, but "no dreams" is not true, its just unlikely.

Picking up on another statement. This one is false. During deep sleep the visual cortex is shut down and there are no dreams at all. If you would be able to maintain lucidity during this phase (congrats, this is very hard), you would only experience a black void and almost or no (dream)body feeling.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Followed by a rare insightful comment from..

Presumably my uninsightful comments relate to my poo-poohing of astral travel, NDEs and the like with relevant science.