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No kidding! What mattered most to me is what they got right and all of the ways that they brought dream vividness, lucidity, and control into the public consciousness. And to just generally break the ice in terms of talking about dreams, something people are at times oddly reluctant to do.
True. I remember as a child my friends and I were always telling each other our dreams, to see if we had shared dreams, but it's just not polite conversation among grownups, is it?

I loved the architecture in Inception, because a lot of my nonLDs are like that. And I thought the way they illustrated dream instability was very clever. Also the slow realization of being in a dream, first by Ariadne, then Fisher. Even though they were told by Dom that they were dreaming, it took them a while to really believe it.

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Basically, this was an NLD in my house where I started thinking about lucid dreaming, so I laid down to WILD. Instantly went into a new dream, fully lucid, and did a bunch of stuff. Eventually I woke up back into the original scene again with lucidity lost. Here's the DJ entry for it: Fooled - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
That is amazing! I really want to try that. But I was running around like a headless chicken last night, wanting to do one thing, then another. I'd better file these ideas for later and concentrate on more basic stuff. BTW, I got a bit of a laugh out of you picking popcorn hulls out of your teeth with a box cutter. Very Chuck Norris.

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I'm keeping my mind open on time dilation. Once we're moving to the world inside of the skull, there's so much that's possible. Perception of time strikes me as something that could become quite skewed in the right situations.

My guess is that this effect is achieved by a combination of, as you say, skipping the boring parts and the mind creating false memories on the fly. It's difficult to prove that, say, the previous month of my life isn't based on the same effect. All we have to rely on is our memory of the experience, and I've found the dreaming brain to be very adept at filling in the gaps.

But in addition, who's to say that it also doesn't sometimes kick into a higher gear and generate dream content in far greater than real-time? It's an amazing question to contemplate.
Yes, I thought about the false memories too. I have noticed that in nonLDs I sometimes invent previous dreams, but when I wake up, I can feel that the memory wasn't real. But like you, I'm keeping my mind open to the possibility of time dilation, OBEs and such thing. Because why not? Placing limitations on possibilities is probably the worst thing you can do as a lucid dreamer.