Thread: Dreams that last a lifetime

was reading this thread last night, had my own 2 day long dream last night, but i was very aware that the time passing was an illusion, but i never noticed the jumps, they blended into everything, also it was like a movie/epic-and stuff did happen at the beggining that was revealed later and at the end.

The really long ones (not always LDs), are just like epic films - I have been married and watched my children grow up and die.[/b]

Id imagine that would be a sobering thing to dream, as well as dream friends ect...sad

Not neccessarily. Maybe reality as we know it works backwards . . .

Or maybe I just inhaled too much Axe Effect this morning . . .

. . . It's still a mystery . . .

How do we know that are dreams aren't the real world and that this world, 'reality', is the dream world? [/b]

As Serinath et al was saying - the experiential world, dreaming or awake is equally 'real' or valid, but both are unreal in the sense that we construct a reality from the void with our sense perceptions and beliefs. It is often suggested to increase LDs by doing daytime Reality Checks: 'Am I dreaming?' - another approach used by Tibetan dream yogins, amongst others, is to realise that the daytime waking world is a dream - unreal, ephemeral and insubstantial.

Our minds can apparently work pretty fast when the rest of the wakingworld senses are turned off.[/b]

Just been reading how the Tibetans regard dream awareness, and that of the death experience, as seven times more acute because the senses have been turned off.

Jin - how's about hatching two birds with one egg - or four birds with two half eggs?

I have always wondered.. when i had the long dreams.. i would have dream abilites most of the time.. but they ran a course like, i was able to only do certain things, not always all-powerful, yeah, i would wakeup and feel very seperated from this world.. I still long to go back to my city, and i feel i will, but i have to recapture it.

would wakeup and feel very seperated from this world[/b]

I know this feeling! After a big dream the 'real' world can seem insipid. Does the effect ever happen the other way -i.e feeling more connected to the real world, after an LD? In one partially lucid dream I had I was fying around the city and decided to show off my skills at a football stadium. Nobody seemed to notice -I even flew right into the changing rooms and buzzed the athletes. Then I overheard someone tut 'Doesnt he know flying is passe? So last-year...'. Then the guy he was talking to said to me 'Look we can all fly we just prefer walking.' I woke up and experienced renewed delight in walking, like taking my first steps again!

I still long to go back to my city, and i feel i will, but i have to recapture it.[/b]

Have you tried writing down the dream as a story? Or painting scenes from it?