Extremely long or infinite LDs

[Andy2014]

I was reading something online that said it was possible to slow down or stop reap time during a dream. It said that there was a guy who had a lucid dream that lasted 105 years but in waking life it was only one night. Have any of you ever heard of this or done it.

[Kraftwerk]

I was reading something online that said it was possible to slow down or stop reap time during a dream. It said that there was a guy who had a lucid dream that lasted 105 years but in waking life it was only one night. Have any of you ever heard of this or done it. The brain can only operate at certain frequencies, at some point, it just can't speed up anymore. Lasting 105 years dream time is absurd in my expreinces, but a week in one night MIGHT be possible of your really really really good at it.

[Alric]

I have heard of this a few times. Some people do have really long dreams and stuff. For days or weeks and stuff. I don't really believe you can slow time in a dream, however you can absolutely make dreams seem longer. The most common thing that makes dreams seem shorter, is that they naturally skip from location to location, and event to event. You can literally wake up and walk out of your bedroom, and arrive at work fully dressed. Saving hours of time. So you might do an entire days worth of activities in five minutes. You might think that is silly, but it happens in real life too. Some movies and tv shows and even books are able to pack information, and make time seem to last a lot longer. Especially a good book that absorbs you into it. There is also another trick dreams use, which is false memories. Often times people are made up characters in their dreams, yet some how you see another dream character and you know they are their best friend. And even weirder you remeber you used to hang out at the bar together. Related to that, its also to have a dream, in which you remeber a dream you had before, yet you had totally forgot that dream. Dreams are easily forgotten, but some times you wake up and realize, "Hey I remeber dreaming that before." So one dream might be connected to an old dream, and you find yourself remebering it. Lastly, the mind just fills things in from dreams. Some times you don't dream something and all and your mind just fills in the blanks. All the filling in can add a lot more information than was really there, which also can stretch out the dream, making it feel like you did a lot more than you really did. So all of them can be added and mixed, to make dreams seem like a long time.

[SystemsLock]

Yeah, your brain can't process information that fast so its impossible to cram years worth of time into a single night. However as states, the brain can sometimes make up false memories giving the impression you were there a long time.

[Allinmyhead]

The longest dream I've ever had wasn't even a lucid one. It happened after I had finished a good book and that night I dreamed I was living in the world of the book. Although I didn't remember every detail when I woke up I did remember enough to know that it lasted at least a day. I remember I ate when I was hungry and walked everywhere I had to go. The dream ended because I was really sleepy and asked the guy I was with if he had somewhere I could sleep and fell asleep on a floating blanket.

[LiveInTheDream]

I had a lucid dream that lasted for three months. It was the worst lucid experience ever, too. Somehow I lost all control in that time and so it wasn't like I tried to make that particular dream last a long time...I was just trapped! I had to do everything in there like I normally would...even sleep every night! Yes, I got tired in a lucid dream and slept, and then woke up still lucid, still in the dream, for three month's worth of days. That's how long it took for the dream to run its course and finally reach the end of the 'story', from which I woke up.

[Aledrea]

three months sounds like a really long time...I wish that could happen to me I've always wanted to live life like my story,lol.

[Clyde Machine]

I had a lucid dream that lasted for three months. It was the worst lucid experience ever, too. Somehow I lost all control in that time and so it wasn't like I tried to make that particular dream last a long time...I was just trapped! I had to do everything in there like I normally would...even sleep every night! Yes, I got tired in a lucid dream and slept, and then woke up still lucid, still in the dream, for three month's worth of days. That's how long it took for the dream to run its course and finally reach the end of the 'story', from which I woke up. If I heard this anywhere else, I'm not so sure I'd believe it. But, whether I'd heard it here or not, I would do what I love to do: ask about what exactly it feels like to live three whole months in one lucid dream!! I don't quite understand it, or should I say, I can't comprehend it. I've had a dream feel like it was an hour long when I'd only been asleep for twenty minutes, but that's the extent of my dreamtime/realtime perception distortion. Three months of lucidity? I can barely believe that, but all I can do is ask for you to talk more about it or direct me to an entry in your dream journal if there is one that can tell me about it.

[Drokens]

I too would like to hear about this three month long lucid. I would love to have an experience like that. I just find it really hard to believe. But my optimistic side likes to hope that such things are possible.

[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.

[sora12]

I'd like to hear more aobut your three month lucid dream as well. I can't even imagine what that would be like. It would be amazing to experience something like that. There would be so much to do and see. I wish I was lucky enough to have an LD as long as that. Though it seems like for you, things got a little boring or tiring after a while.

[Motumz]

I had a lucid dream that lasted for three months. It was the worst lucid experience ever, too. Somehow I lost all control in that time and so it wasn't like I tried to make that particular dream last a long time...I was just trapped! I had to do everything in there like I normally would...even sleep every night! Yes, I got tired in a lucid dream and slept, and then woke up still lucid, still in the dream, for three month's worth of days. That's how long it took for the dream to run its course and finally reach the end of the 'story', from which I woke up. Which makes me think.. how do we not know we aren't trapped right now?

[IndigoGhost]

Which makes me think.. how do we not know we aren't trapped right now? Time is just a human invention.

[Maria92]

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? Even if you sped up your perception of time ten fold (dangerous in and of itself), you still wouldn't be anywhere close to the mythical 105 years. The brain stores information well, but there are only seven active areas of thought processing. To speed up time in the dream, your brain would have to be working impossibly fast, and at those levels, you'd be more likely to wake up than stay dreaming. Chemicals can only jump a synapse so quickly... Time is just a human invention. ...experienced by humans...and the universe in general.

[ReegalBeegal]

I was reading something online that said it was possible to slow down or stop reap time during a dream. It said that there was a guy who had a lucid dream that lasted 105 years but in waking life it was only one night. Have any of you ever heard of this or done it. I think i read something like this in LaBerges book Exploring the World of Lucid Draeming. pretty ridiculous even if it is you mind creating false memories of you being there that long.

[changed]

I was reading something online that said it was possible to slow down or stop reap time during a dream. It said that there was a guy who had a lucid dream that lasted 105 years but in waking life it was only one night. Have any of you ever heard of this or done it. The point isn't to slow down time in a dream but to speed it up. Like it's in fast forward but you don't notice a difference so it seems way longer than the time you slept. So you could live a whole day in your dream but it would only be like 5 minutes in real life. So the concept is to trick your brain into thinking it was longer than it really was.

[Bizarre Jester]

One man Robert Monroe claimed to have a lucid dream that lasted 100 years. There is no way this can be proven. I'm not saying he lied but the thing is, it's how long you feel that it was rather then how long you have actually spent in the dream. If it is possible why the hell would you even want a 100 year lucid dream? Imagine how disoriented you'd be when you finally woke up.

[Portalboat]

I agree. The very longest I'd like to be in a LD is a week, MAYBE a month.

[Clyde Machine]

I've got a little info from Dr. Stephen LaBerge on lucid dreams tending to last as long to the oneironaut as their dreaming experience takes to others watching them sleep, as opposed to regular dreams which can vary in perceived/actual length. In "Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., pages 75-78 are dedicated to "Dream Time", in which LaBerge concludes that, from a study they (him and his colleagues) conducted with a woman named "Beverly," "estimated time in dreams seems very nearly equal to clock time - at least for lucid dreams." (p.77, LaBerge) He went on to explain why things happening in lucid dreams aren't instantaneous, that our brains do have a finite amount of time required to process information, even the answers to obvious questions, and therefore our dreaming minds must take time to process our wishes. Thought you'd all like to know a little bit on that. There's more in the book to support his case, as well as more information on experiments they'd conducted with lucid dreaming, but I'd rather not type more up at the moment.