Thread: Extremely long or infinite LDs

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...

I think a lot of this has to do with false memories giving the illusion of a long dream. Sometimes I will have a short dream in which I have a long memory of living in a certain place, or being a certain character. The dream itself may only last an instant, but I somehow immediately know exactly what events led up to that instant.

I don't discount those false memories. After all, dreams themselves are false memories.

Indeed - false signals from the pons being sent to the sense-interpreting locations of the brain are what produce those dreams we think are so real, but it's all unreal. Our remembering of our dreams is true memory; our dreams themselves are false memory.

I recall seeing a bit about the 105 year LD guy but I'm not sure that the website was that reputable, it had a lot of unbelievable stuff on it.