Thread: Extremely long or infinite LDs

I don't believe it. How are you supposed to tell time in a dream? That is like putting someone in a plain white box, leaving them there and coming back 3 months later, and expecting them to tell accurate time.

You can't use day/night cycles, watches, calendars, marks on the walls, or how often you eat to judge time within a dream. Trying to judge time based on your internal clock within a dream is silly.

Originally Posted by Alric

I don't believe it. How are you supposed to tell time in a dream? That is like putting someone in a plain white box, leaving them there and coming back 3 months later, and expecting them to tell accurate time.

You can't use day/night cycles, watches, calendars, marks on the walls, or how often you eat to judge time within a dream. Trying to judge time based on your internal clock within a dream is silly.

I can see where you're coming from that 3 months is an extremely long and oddly precise time to be realizing you're in while in a dream, but wouldn't you agree that a person can tell have some sense of time without tracking devices like clocks and watches, even within a dream, albeit a distorted one? I think it's possible to determine a GENERAL length of time when in a dream, to approximate what you felt was the period of time you dreamt; though I won't argue in any way that the aforementioned sense of time when in the dream world can be warped and distorted, it's there nonetheless.

I'd like to ask them that as well, how they determined it was over the span of 11-13 weeks, entirely lucid.

Wow, I didn't realize there would be quite so much interest in that dream!

You can read it in my DJ...obviously, it's REALLY freaking long because I was writing so much content into it, and you can read it by clicking here, but it's not really a fond memory of mine...I was faced with a lot of dark stuff about myself in that one, and even though I was lucid, I was strangely out of control, so it was more like three months of living hell than anything else. Had I been able to exercise some form of dream control that would have been a TON different, of course, but nothing worked...at all. It wasn't even like things changed, but not in the way I wanted exactly. No, things just didn't change at all, no matter what I did. I couldn't even wake myself up trying.

As for all the questions about how I measured time, obviously we're not talking three real months, so in a way, it's a bit of an irrelevant detail. I saw the sun rise every morning and set every night and due to the limited nature of the dream I had to go to sleep and wake up each time it did. The time in between these occurrences was probably varied, but each one felt like a full day, and going to sleep inside the dream made the nights feel complete as well. I always kept track of how many days had passed by, since time was an essential player in the 'storyline' of the lucid nightmare, and I knew that as soon as three months had gone by I could get out.

I also knew the time because there were DC's keeping track of it for me. My authorities, actually, or prison-keepers, however you wish to see it. Even though I kept track of things personally, they seemed to know better than I did when each month would be done.

Oh well, I don't know how to make much more sense without everyone having read through the dream and knowing what details I'm referring to...so I'll just let that suffice for now.

LivingInTheDream, So you knew you were dreaming, had no control, why did you not just kill yourself and seen what would happen?

But I have never experienced one and will not like to, if I could a week would be most.. yet that would still be only just bearable... With no control anyway.

Originally Posted by Dylan xD

LivingInTheDream, So you knew you were dreaming, had no control, why did you not just kill yourself and seen what would happen?

Well I was always holding out hope that somehow I'd gain control and take over...and then I wanted to whip all those DC's something good

And also there was this one DC girl that I kinda fell in love with (weird, I know, but I tend to view certain DC's as real people, just in case I'm shared dreaming without knowing it), so I wanted to keep living for that reason as well

Hmm, Sorta living in the moment while in that LD... But you still have to wonder, maybe if you killed yourself you could have become lucid.

Don't mind me asking but did the DC girl like you back?

Originally Posted by Dylan xD

Hmm, Sorta living in the moment while in that LD... But you still have to wonder, maybe if you killed yourself you could have become lucid.

Don't mind me asking but did the DC girl like you back?

Honestly, I wasn't sure how long I was going to be stuck there, and it was so real that lucid dreaming or not I figured I might as well really live there.

And yes she did, but it still didn't end up well...I mean duh, like things could have gone well

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

Wow, I didn't realize there would be quite so much interest in that dream!

You can read it in my DJ...obviously, it's REALLY freaking long because I was writing so much content into it, and you can read it by clicking here, but it's not really a fond memory of mine...I was faced with a lot of dark stuff about myself in that one, and even though I was lucid, I was strangely out of control, so it was more like three months of living hell than anything else. Had I been able to exercise some form of dream control that would have been a TON different, of course, but nothing worked...at all. It wasn't even like things changed, but not in the way I wanted exactly. No, things just didn't change at all, no matter what I did. I couldn't even wake myself up trying.

As for all the questions about how I measured time, obviously we're not talking three real months, so in a way, it's a bit of an irrelevant detail. I saw the sun rise every morning and set every night and due to the limited nature of the dream I had to go to sleep and wake up each time it did. The time in between these occurrences was probably varied, but each one felt like a full day, and going to sleep inside the dream made the nights feel complete as well. I always kept track of how many days had passed by, since time was an essential player in the 'storyline' of the lucid nightmare, and I knew that as soon as three months had gone by I could get out.

I also knew the time because there were DC's keeping track of it for me. My authorities, actually, or prison-keepers, however you wish to see it. Even though I kept track of things personally, they seemed to know better than I did when each month would be done.

Oh well, I don't know how to make much more sense without everyone having read through the dream and knowing what details I'm referring to...so I'll just let that suffice for now.

Wow, that's an amazing dream. Epic dream is epic.