Thread: Hong long did you LDs last?

My LD's usually only last a few seconds to maybe a minute or two. I want to extend this time so badly. And on what you guys were saying earlier, about extending dream time to be able to make it feel like a few weeks, I do believe that this is possible. I mean what is time but a perspective that our mind creates? Surely, when we are dreaming time can sometimes be different than waking life time. When I was younger, I had a dream that seemed like it lastd for about 4 hours and it was so boring that I just wanted it to end lol.

i had a long ass lucid dream once
it kinda felt like a couple hours

Realistically, LDs are capped at about an hour of "real" time.

Subjectively, as has been said, LDs can last much longer.

Supposedly, there's a strong link between perceived time and memory which can be used to facilitate time dilation. This link is one of the major reasons a year seems so long to children, but as they accumulate experience and turn into adults years seem to fly by.

Lol hong long my lucids last? grammar fail.

from my experiences and some books I read, LDs normally last for about 3 to 4 minutes.The longgest is about 10 mins. I am thinking we put all our efforts for that 4-min lucids? is it worth all our efforts? just wondering..

Well, I'm gonna be that one guy that brings up the movie theories. In Inception they talk about how dream time is longer than real time, and It completely makes sense to me. Your brains technically can simulate time faster. But this may be done in a few ways. The most common that I know of is when you jump around time, making it seem like you were there for longer. You can spend a Day on a resort, but you would just sorta hop from the morning to the afternoon to the evening, spending time in each one giving you the feeling of being there longer. The other way is where you are aware of being there for more than a few hours without jumping around. It is difficult to prove this with science because of the way the brain works. Everyone is different, and so it may just be by luck that the brain decided to hop around, or do different things. If you are looking at a dream in our time, it's gonna be 5-60 minutes in length, but while your in there, it may feel longer, shorter, or non existent.

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If you had drugs to sleep, you may not be in REM but there is still a possibility for you to dream, or to go into REM for a little while, but keep holding onto it because your mind would be so deep in. Just a thought, this could be a reason people last longer.

I feel like I have two different types of dreams, those in real time and those in 'dream' time. I don't know if that is possible, it's just a feeling. For real time it feels like the dreams are maybe 5-15 minutes, usually around 10. Despite the fact that many things can happen in the "movie" that is my dream that would normally equal one hour or more in actual film, it feels sped up. Like I take in all the information in a shorter amount of time. Then with 'dream' time, the lengths are endless. I've had dreams that seemed to go on all night, three hours maybe, but I have heard that isn't possible so I consider it 'dream' time, or fictitious time. Who knows?

Originally Posted by Slumberless

. I've had dreams that seemed to go on all night, three hours maybe, but I have heard that isn't possible so I consider it 'dream' time, or fictitious time. Who knows?

if that's true, you are the lucky one who could stay in dream in a very long time.