Thread: Stopping real time in a lucid dream

Yeah, I think the fastest it goes is 4 or 5 times the normal speed, and that is in perception. A year in a day, I don't think so, I got up to 14 hours but that isn't stopping time, its just changing your perception of it.

This is near impossible to dream at a faster speed in lucids unless you have EXTREME dream control abilities. It's also uncommon in non lucid dreams. What happens is your brain either creates false memories, or it skips things.

False memories are when your mind creates memories and causes you to believe they were real. For instance, the most common occurrence of this in my dreams is when I see a movie. I'll go into a dream movie theater and look at the posters on the wall. I'll see a poster for Extreme Super Uber Mega Crab Battle, and instantly my brain will make up an entire movie. Most would think they actually watched the movie.

The other possibility, skipping, is used in movies and theater. A man and a woman, both completely drunk, stumble into a bedroom. They hurriedly fumble with their clothes, collapse on the bed, and kiss. Cut to the next morning.
You didn't actually see them have sex, nor did they actually have it. But if you were to recap the movie, you'd say they did. This happens in dreams multiple times. People who say their dreams last a lifetime, they've probably just had 1 minute cuts of different stages of life.

The two working together are effective at creating a convincing illusion of an extended dream, but are nothing more than that.

It's not about slowing or stopping time, it's about changing your perception of time.

Yes, and that can't really be done.

Originally Posted by Conkt

Yes, and that can't really be done.

This is true... a person can't slow or stop time, you can only speed yourself up (making time seem slower) or slow yourself down (making time seem faster), thus changing your perspective.

As for spending a couple hours in a dream and having a half hour pass in the waking world, it depends on where you went in the dream. Time doesn't flow at the same rate in all the different worlds. Dream travel to a world where time naturally flows at three times the rate it does here and you could spend an hour and a half there with only half an hour passing here. Again, a matter of perspective.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

Time doesn't flow at the same rate in all the different worlds

Yeah. C.S Lewis had the same theory.

Originally Posted by Walms

A year in a day, I don't think so, I got up to 14 hours but that isn't stopping time, its just changing your perception of it.

Fourteen hours sound fine to me!

Oh? I thought you were talking about the year ones, and I don't think I like doing that nor recomend it, always end up with a headache <.<
And lol, narnia.