How long can a dream last?

**Plasma** · 10-19-2010 07:14 PM

Hello DV!

I am new to lucid dreaming and I am very excited on getting my first LD.

And I have wondered to myself, how long can a LD take (In Dream Time)?

**Recidul** · 10-19-2010 07:52 PM

I've read people having dreams that last two weeks, a few months or even a hundred years. The longest dream I've had was about two hours long, but I woke up in the middle so I think it was two rem phases.

**Yungen** · 10-19-2010 08:30 PM

I heard that a man called Robert Monroe had a lucid dream that lasted 100 years.

**Brunor2** · 10-19-2010 08:39 PM

Hello. Welcome.
A dream can last like 1:30 hours or so, but how you perceive it is what will matter. People say about time dilatation techniques, some can dream for hours, other said that the dream felt like days.

**Plasma** · 10-19-2010 08:48 PM

But can I wake up from a dream with my own will?

**Brunor2** · 10-19-2010 08:59 PM

Yes. But you can get caught in false awakenings.

**Plasma** · 10-19-2010 09:23 PM

What is a false awakening?

**KushyBear** · 10-19-2010 09:26 PM

A false awakening where you think you wake up and would go and do normal things, but you are still dreaming.

**Raetin** · 10-20-2010 04:08 AM

I wonder if that guy became old in the dream and when he finally woke up, he forgot about what was happening in real life.

**KushyBear** · 10-20-2010 04:16 AM

Hmm, there could be the possibly of it, if he was able to remember day to day events, or at least weeks, or if he just knew that it felt like 100 years and didn't actually remember it.

**Skydreamer707** · 10-20-2010 04:56 AM

Its a matter of how long it felt. there is no time in dreams. in fact im 50% sure what feels like an hour long dream could in actuality only have lasted 10-20mins real time. its all relative when your asleep.
ive never tried Time dilatation techniques but i guess anythings possible