Quote Originally Posted by Naiya View Post

LaBerge did one similar to this, only with more hi-tech stuff. But same basic idea: he had people count while awake, measured their accuracy, then had them count while they were dreaming (I think they would make certain eye movements for another person to watch), and measured the accuracy of that. Then both trials were compared.

If I might ruin the results for you: lucid dreamers were just as accurate at counting time as they were awake. Which follows that most lucid dreams happen in real time or are perceived in real time.
Yup yup.

LDers were accurate within a few seconds. But, I always thought of it like this: LDs are mainly based on expectations. And if you are trying to count and get an accurate number for time... Wouldn't you most likely get an accurate number?

I've had dreams that felt like they lasted longer than a half hour or more. They've felt like days and weeks. Of course, they weren't. But dream time seems very relative.