Thread: Extremely long or infinite LDs

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

Livingthedream,

That was a very interesting read. I couldn't help but wonder though as I read it. Did you lose your lucidity throughout this dream at times? It seemed like you just decided to go with it and not try to control anything about the dream. Also, what type of dream was this? WILD, MILD, DILD, ect...

I've also had a friend who has told me about a dream that he had that lasted for about four years. He said it was from about second grade to the sixth grade. This was years ago and I don't talk to this friend anymore so I can't ask him about it but I have also heard that this can happen.

Well I have no doubt that a dream can feel that long. Though days and weeks can past by in a dream montage, and it would feel and seem real because your dreaming, but really your not experiencing any of it. Then when you think back, you would remebering doing all that stuff, and you did do it. It just took you 30 seconds to live an entire day.

I'm going to say...not possible. The brain only goes so fast...what you CAN do is focus on major aspects/events of daily life and sort of skip through the rest, and so make dreams feel much longer, but the dude in question did not live through 105 NORMAL years in the dream state. Upon waking, you would also expect your brain to fill in some of the gaps.

Originally Posted by Mario92

I'm going to say...not possible. The brain only goes so fast...what you CAN do is focus on major aspects/events of daily life and sort of skip through the rest, and so make dreams feel much longer, but the dude in question did not live through 105 NORMAL years in the dream state. Upon waking, you would also expect your brain to fill in some of the gaps.

Don't underestimate the brain. it can calculate information a trillion times faster then a modern computer, and we play games that have memory spans of years that we can play though in a day, so why is this implausible?

The character from your dream lmao, watch much Avatar?

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0062576/

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

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

You didn't dream for 3 months. You had a dream that you were dreaming for 3 months. People forget that in the same way your brain can make you forget your dreaming it can also make up fake memories to replace them.

Originally Posted by SystemsLock

You didn't dream for 3 months. You had a dream that you were dreaming for 3 months. People forget that in the same way your brain can make you forget your dreaming it can also make up fake memories to replace them.

Exactly what I was thinking.

It's not the amount of time that changes. It's your perception of time. You can do a full day routine 105 times in a dream to make it seem like 105 days, but it's still the same 1 hour that you're dreaming in.

Originally Posted by ReachingForTheDream

Exactly what I was thinking.

It's not the amount of time that changes. It's your perception of time. You can do a full day routine 105 times in a dream to make it seem like 105 days, but it's still the same 1 hour that you're dreaming in.

.... You all realize that that's exactly what LiveInTheDream was saying, right? Not that he'd been asleep for 3 real-life months and had dreamed the entire time, but that his dream felt as though it spanned 3 months of his perceived time?

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

.... You all realize that that's exactly what LiveInTheDream was saying, right? Not that he'd been asleep for 3 real-life months and had dreamed the entire time, but that his dream felt as though it spanned 3 months of his perceived time?

Thank you! I was just getting on here to say that myself

In fact, I don't think the original post was talking about entering a state of permanent sleep and never waking up, but just if its possible to bend your perception of time so that a lucid dream feels like its lasting a long time. Who'd honestly want to try to stay asleep for months on end? You'd die from starvation sooner or later, never mind the other health problems that would be involved...