Have you guys ever got past 2-3 hours? or even days? I haven't gone past 15-20 min.:roll:
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Have you guys ever got past 2-3 hours? or even days? I haven't gone past 15-20 min.:roll:
Same for me, 15-20 mins does happen, but not longer (untill now). There is a theoretical maximum to a LD length though, because each sleep cycle you will also pass through deep sleep, and there are no dreams in this stage. It's also quite hard to stay lucid there. In the later sleep cycles you have less deep sleep though, so in theory the lucids at the end of the night could last longer than those you may have in earlier cycles.
I have had 10 - 15 minutes.
I can't remember what exactly you can get to =/ its like an hour.
:P
I had one that lasted around 30 minutes.
Actually they were 2 dreams chained with a DEILD in the middle. But as i wanted to have the dream in the same place as the one i was dreaming before i awake i guess it was like a big dream in 2 parts. The second part was the longest, around 25 min, the one before was kinda short 5 minutes i guess.
30-40 seconds and I thought that was long. I had no idea they can get around 20-30 minutes long!
You can get up to an hour long lucid dreams. Oh, and by the way, that's excellent, eyyoshi. This thread just completely expanded your LD horizon! :D
last night was around 15 seconds, longest i had.
Oh they can! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyyoshi
58 mins.
TODAY.
The best LUCID DREAM ever in my life [later i'll write this experience on the forum]...
Was a RILD WBTB+FILD
Fucking amazing...
A full REM cycle. Now if we talk about time dilation (just perception, don't imagine things), like 11 hours? And it gives me headaches... Before i thought it was longer, but realised that "going to sleep" in like 30 of these hours makes it far, far shorter.
A few seconds to a few minutes... perceiving a dream to be 11 hours long must be incredible, but at the same time I might start to doubt my ability to get out of it.
15 minutes.
Agree with Xetrov. I've heard people report really long ones but my personal opinion is that their memory of time is being screwed with within the dream which I know for a fact can happen as I've experienced it.
maybe around 25 minutes. i've had some really long DILDs where i would end up forgetting what was going on before I was lucid.
I am pretty sure the longest your dream can possibly be is around an hour, and for this to occur you would need to have been asleep for a long time before. Its all to do with REM cycles and I really can't be bothered to explain them.
Otherwise its just to do with your dream control and not allowing yourself to wake up prematurely, which I am guilty of all the time.
My personal longest, I'm not sure because its very hard to grasp time in a dream but I would say it was around five minutes. Five bloody brilliant minutes I must say.
I think I have finally overcome the hurdle of becoming lucid, but my new hurdle is dream control and staying calm, so my longest LD can't have been any longer than 60 seconds.
about 4 or 5 minutes. It's not long but I have noticed a lot of improvement. They used to be like 1 minute and less frequently.
Probably around 1 hour, but that would be chaining dreams together, with minimal (5-20sec) breaks in between.
I find once you have had a long lucid dream you will have more to come. Your brain no longer is expecting to wake up any minute, so you relax into it with confidence that you will have a while to experiment. Expectation and confidence, as usual, are key in LDs.
The longest lucid I had was about an hour long. It was under some special circumstances though. I had not gotten more than a few hours of sleep per day for 3 - 4 days. I believe I experienced some REM rebound. Regardless of how it happened, the dream was awesome!
My current longest time is roughly 10 seconds, i guess.
my longest was probably around an hour and a half
ive had quite a few hour long ones
Good stuff! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Banana
I have had a couple that have pushed the hour mark. These dreams were awesome, btw. The longer the better I say!
45 minutes but that was because i wasdrifting in and out of regular dreaming to lucid dreaming
Not sure about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrangeDreamsGuy
In the case of dreams, perceiving that a dream has lasted 11 hours essentially means you are 1)mistaken and 2) confused.
I'd argue that a lucid dream which "seems" to last 11 hours isn't really all that "lucid".
well my longest felt like 30 mins or something. but i doubt it was really that long
Or fake memory, or distorted perception of time. None of these have to do with lucidity, you are confusing things there <.<Quote:
Originally Posted by moonshine
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...
Either way, they result in the normal confused garble of dream experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walms
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:
Followed by a rare insightful comment from..Quote:
Originally Posted by Zuma
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Originally Posted by moonshine
No they doesn't, the dreamer may just want to call it that way so it isn't confusion but stubborness.Quote:
Originally Posted by moonshine
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?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Desert Claw
Presumably my uninsightful comments relate to my poo-poohing of astral travel, NDEs and the like with relevant science.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneiro