Originally posted by Rapscallion
Whiteshadow: I am one of those who have had extended dream periods, as you call them. If I were to somehow alter the way I could LD, it would be to make all dreams extended. It would add years to your life! Think of all the experiences you could have if you dreamt a full dream-week every night. I also believe that it is the brain speeding up and showing you images at a faster rate, though it doesn’t seem any faster in the dream.
This is what I'm talking about, if we can process information faster in dreams, who is to say we cannot learn to do so in waking life? Thus increasing our reflexes, perhaps to an almost superhuman level!? I know, it sounds childish and geeky, but it's just an idea. I like philosophising.

I'll take this one step further on the geeky level: everyone who's seen that scene in Spiderman (which I might add, I thought was a rubbish film! By that I mean directing and acting!), the one where he's fighting for the first time with the bully in school. He sees things in slow-motion. That's merely thinking faster, no? Or another theory is: If time is a man-made concept and only bounds to physical reality, then can our mental reality bend time like this? I think it's the former, but there's been no evidence of this being possible, unless someone knows a Tibetan Monk who'll divulge his experiences?

WS