Thread: Is time inside a lucid dream running at the same speed as time for your real body?

Both answers are true in a way.

Yes, there is a 1:1 correlation as LaBerge proved with the eye movement test. The reason people can have a one minute dream that seems like it lasted a lot longer is the same reason movies can cover years in an hour and a half. Compression. Transitions from one scene to another that imply a lot of time in between without that time actually elapsing.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

Both answers are true in a way.

Yes, there is a 1:1 correlation as LaBerge proved with the eye movement test. The reason people can have a one minute dream that seems like it lasted a lot longer is the same reason movies can cover years in an hour and a half. Compression. Transitions from one scene to another that imply a lot of time in between without that time actually elapsing.

True but that zooming through time in a instance as he discribed it applies to non lucid dreams, in lucid dreams time is virtually the same,

With exception to some lucids where you go in and out of being lucid or semi lucids where your conscience mind is not fully aware or in control. At that time it can still fly very fast.

For example: You have a non-lucid dream and through the back ground in the window it went day to night within a couple seconds. When your not lucid your logic sense is not clicked on, therefore you just assume a day went by, rather then saying "hey just changed night to day in a couple seconds." Which is what the response would be in a lucid point of view.