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claytoncasey01
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 1:09 am Post subject: Dream Longevity? |
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| I have read posts on other forums that some lucid dreamers have claimed to be in a lucid dream for what seemed like days at a time in just one night. One guy even had a detailed log of a week long lucid dream(of course it was really only one night but in the dream it was a week.) Any one heard of this or know how to do it? |
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IrbidProdigy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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Longest dream I had seemed to be a little over an hour, and longest LD was about an hour (it felt). I'm not sure though, the dream world usually puts false memories in peoples heads, and maybe he had a false memory of the entire week before the dream ended? Not sure though, could be anything  |
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Dr. Condensate
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Time perception can most certainly be altered during a dream. Once I experienced what seemed to be a two minute dream after passing out for only around ten seconds. Other times your dreams will end up with a slower passage of time than that of your waking life. It is variable. Perhaps the type of sleep is also a factor.
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claytoncasey01
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Dr. Condensate wrote: | | Time perception can most certainly be altered during a dream. Once I experienced what seemed to be a two minute dream after passing out for only around ten seconds. Other times your dreams will end up with a slower passage of time than that of your waking life. It is variable. Perhaps the type of sleep is also a factor. |
I have always wanted to be able to extend my time in a dream, maybe to a few days in just one night of sleep. Would be really cool to be able to live in a world you create for an extended period of time like I have heard of other lucid dreamers doing. The main fear I have would be, lets say I live day to day in a lucid dream for a year in one single night (which I have heard of a few others doing and some having detailed logs of) what would be the physiological effects of waking up from something like that, kind of like neo from the matrix I guess. I would still do it if I knew how though. |
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IrbidProdigy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe someone should try to slow time in their lucid dream, might have an effect? |
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Dr. Condensate
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Well, I suppose it's possible, but I think it highly unlikely that you can extend the time so much as to be a year in length. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but I don't know if I believe those who say they have had dreams so long.
If it is indeed the truth. Experiencing such a long dream may or may not have any psychological effects. In reality, a lot of it really depends on you. Perhaps your sense of reality would be altered, but if you keep full use of your mental faculties you should be able to tell the difference. Because you knew in the first place in going into the dream that it was indeed a dream. Maybe you could become to attached to this dream world, and want to stay in it rather than in reality. That again depends on you. I think it would be a pretty lonely existence, because none of the dream characters are truly people (unless perhaps shared dreaming occurs-which as I have seen so far is either ridiculously unlikely or completely impossible). There could be some other effects, but they all pretty much depend on you.
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claytoncasey01
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| Well the only reason I thought about physcological effetcs is because I had a dream about having a girlfriend which in the dream I spent about 5-10min with but when I woke up I was mad and had a residual attachment to a girl that didn't exist. Difference being I wasn't lucid though. |
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Dr. Condensate
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Well, if your lucid, this problem shouldn't come about.
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claytoncasey01
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Thats what I was thinking. I will look into extending lucid dreams for long periods of time such as 2 days in the dream and update here if I find any techniques |
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buddhistwisdom7
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| claytoncasey01 wrote: | | Thats what I was thinking. I will look into extending lucid dreams for long periods of time such as 2 days in the dream and update here if I find any techniques |
Really intriguing idea, this literally made me create an account! |
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