Thread: Time Control

You can make lucid dreams seem to pass time.

For example, if you was watching a film and the character went to bed at midnight. Then the alarms go off and light shines through the window..
Even though it went from night to morning, the audience know that only a few seconds have really past.

You can apply this to your dreams and make them seem to last longer.

Originally Posted by mrdeano

You can make lucid dreams seem to pass time.

For example, if you was watching a film and the character went to bed at midnight. Then the alarms go off and light shines through the window..
Even though it went from night to morning, the audience know that only a few seconds have really past.

You can apply this to your dreams and make them seem to last longer.

Does a movie set over a decade seem to last ten years.
Nah, it seems to last An hour and a half to two hours.

Originally Posted by moonshine

Does a movie set over a decade seem to last ten years.
Nah, it seems to last An hour and a half to two hours.

Yes but the story passes over a decade.

And because you are immersed in the story when lucid dreaming. You feel as if you have also passed through a decade.

I don't understand why you are arguing this. I have had dreams that seem to last longer than they actually did, and I am sure tons of other people on this forum have too.

Originally Posted by mrdeano

Yes but the story passes over a decade.

And because you are immersed in the story when lucid dreaming. You feel as if you have also passed through a decade.

I don't understand why you are arguing this.


I have had dreams that seem to last longer than they actually did, and I am sure tons of other people on this forum has too.

I would say I've had the same. Mainly because I simply don't have a good measure of how much time has passed. But I'm talking about 15 minutes maybe seeming more like half an hour.

I've never experienced a dream that seems to last days, weeks, years.
Its just not logically possible.

Heres my point, when you timeslip (as in whoops suddenly its a year later what ever story is unfolding) you don't suddenly have a years worth of false memories to look back on. Neither have you experienced a years worth of events.


Furthermore, "time control" suggests you can somehow induce this time dilation. To have control you would need to be lucid. Being lucid you're more likely to notice and understand the disjointed nature of dreams.
Even if you did suddenly appear at your destination without completing the 10mile walk inbetween, you would be well aware of the jump and wouldn't assume you had walked the 10 miles.

Being aware of time in a dream would be the key in changing it. But making it slow down seems... wierd. Example.. if it were in any way possable we could slow time.. what would be the consequence?.. right.. we´d be screwing physics. Gravitation is defined, and if g is 9,81 m/s².. then its 9,81 m/s². We couldn´t be able to slow it or make it go faster in our dreams, even if Lucid.

My oppinion, not sayin its right, just saying it what i think.

This should help you out : Dream Control Tutorial. Make sure that you read all of the subtutorials, it's really important that you understand how dreams are made in order to be able to control them Feel free to ask more questions any time

I have no need to try it, although it has been proven that the sense of time in a dream is different. For example, I had a dream that was in my 5th REM period or so that SEEMED to last hours but I don't believe it could've lasted more than an hour.

The reason for this was proved by Steven LaBerge
He had a set of lucid dreamers get lucid in a dream. The minute they did they did some kinda movement so that brain meter thingy would jump. Then they counted to ten and did the movement again.

When they did the time was all messed up. No one counted to ten in ten seconds. Instead most counted to ten in under ten seconds.