lucid dream: 3day dream time. 1hr30mins real time. frightening.

**jonathansix** · 09-21-2012 03:49 AM

about 1hr ago i woke up from possibly the wildest experience of my life. i took a nap and woke up in my own house. went down stairs and everything was perfect. as if every problem in my life vanished. i lived through out the day then slept then woke up and did that for what seemed like three days. how could i sleep inside of a dream? this experience has made my mind weak as of now anyways. it was a very emotional and almost frightening experience.

i woke up 1hr30mins later to the same house expecting that all of it was real and what happend happend. i can only remember fragments of the dream which all seem to be very meaningful almost dark.

the dream took place in my life my house my everything..

**jonathansix** · 09-21-2012 05:10 AM

i questioned weither it was a dream or real life. but once i woke up and slept multiple times within one dream i became certain it was real. all i said when i finally woke up was "did anything happen today?" then answer i got was no you've been asleep for a hour and a half.

i would like to share what happend but it is far too personal.

**ThisWitheredMan** · 09-21-2012 06:07 AM

This is my ultimate goal, to experience time dilation of this magnitude... I have heard of people smoking DMT and having a dissociation that lasts 30 minutes in objective time but subjectively felt like YEARS of experience. Perception of time is all in your head, but it seems like it'd require more processing power to generate more experiences in the same processing time; though really we don't know much about how dreams are generated or processed so maybe there's something about the way it works that makes this simple.

Has anyone else had dreams like this? I wonder how you could go about willfully triggering them. I hear a lot of people talk about having been in a LD for "40 minutes" or whatever amount of time, and I wonder how they could possibly know? Unless you slip right into a WILD and then right back out, I guess, I never really know when in my cycle the lucid starts.

**SzuruDusk** · 09-24-2012 03:13 AM

Some mornings, I'll wake up feeling as if I had just returned home from a grand adventure, that could have spanned months. Crazy crazy feeling. @~@]/

Sometimes, it really feels like I go to sleep in my dream world and return to a more controlled "dream" of waking life.

**Chimpertainment** · 09-24-2012 07:41 PM

This is a pretty common experience, so while it might be unnerving there is no real danger here.

A lot of times I will have multiple dreams within a very short period of time. When I was younger I used to have dreams like this all the time. In fact, I had a couple dreams that I like to call "lifetime dreams" where I lived an alternate life in the span of a single night. There was only one instance where I lived what seemed like an entire lifetime, all the others were just massive chunks of time.

These can be extremely emotional dreams. To me, it was like living a life, then losing that life and the loss was very impacting.

**lucidboy** · 09-28-2012 10:06 AM

When i used to be on high doses of SSRIs, sometimes the plots of my dreams would be months long. While i did not experience all the thoughts one would expierience over the course of several months, it truly felt as if i had been in this dream for months. Some of these dreams were indescribably complex and very emotional. Emotions ive never felt before.
Off of these drugs, i have never experienced such powerful time distortion.

And in response to thiswitheredmans comment about the DMT... i can definitely account for this. I did it once, and the trip which truly does last no longer than 30 minutes, is not something that can be measure by our sense of "time"... Its hard to put into words. I saw my entire life and every thought, emotion and action up to that point in front of me. And that was only one part of many other things that happened in my mind in such a short period of time.
Its crazy to me how linear we perceive time to be, when its truly not so structured and simple.

**Mystycal** · 09-28-2012 10:35 PM

Im sorry guys, but I don't believe this. You cannot live for an entire lifetime within a dream while the 'real' world's time passes an hour. I am afraid that this has to be put in the same category as dreams within dreams, Inception fiction. What you can experience is key moments in that dream life: then when you wake up, your brain, for some reason or another, makes you believe your adventure lasted much longer than it actually did in the dream.

**lucidboy** · 09-28-2012 11:16 PM

I agree with you Mystycal, i dont think we actually live the amount of time that we perceive.
But the argument was never that we actually did "live" that time, but rather we perceived it. Well my argument wasn't at least. And arguably our perception is the only thing that really matters. Time is only a construct of our perception anyway.