Thread: Time and Lucid Dreams?

So since I had my first successful Lucid Dream this week, I was wondering how long they can last. Can you keep them going all night and wake up in the late or early morning? Just curious.

You can't keep a lucid dream going all night in the same way that you can't have non-lucid dreams all night. We generally dream during REM sleep, which occurs at the end of every 90 minute sleep cycle. So every 90 minutes we will dream. The length of the REM period tends to start off at around 10 minutes and increases the longer you sleep to say 30 or so minutes. Your dream length is limited to your REM Sleep length, basically. That's why it's easier to remember dreams later on in the night, or in the early morning, because your REM periods are longer and more noticeable.

It is known for people to have dreams in NREM (non-REM) sleep, but it is near impossible and I wouldn't recommend it.

*Moved to General Lucid

Like RDM said, most of dreams, and lucid dreams, occur in REM. There are dreams in NREM, but usually they are not really as vivid as REM dreams, it is possible for them to be as vivid as REM but it can take alot of practice, training and confidence, i am not sure about any actual techniques for it however.
But on the other hand remember that dream time don't has to be same as waking life time and 30 min of sleep can be hours or even days or more in dream, there's time dilation and it is possible even though some people doubt it, it can take quite a bit of experimenting in lucids to find any technique that would work and it's pretty advanced to do, so i'd suggest to get other lucid dreaming skills high up first!

Originally Posted by DragonSword

So since I had my first successful Lucid Dream this week, I was wondering how long they can last. Can you keep them going all night and wake up in the late or early morning? Just curious.

If your fear that lucid dreaming is extending the time you sleep, don't worry about that. Even with most supplements, you are only increasing the time spent in the phase where you can dream, but that's a normal sleep phase.

Now, as Scionox mentioned, time in the dream can feel very different, and some even claim it can extend impossibly long.

I had dreams where I felt I spent the whole week inside, also I had night with hundreds of short fragments from different dreams. From my experience time dilation is possible, but you cannot do it on purpose. You can slow time a little bit or make it run a bit faster, but to have a completely different time speed you just need to end up in such a dream. Iv read few topics about time dilation on this forum and most people failed to do it on purpose. So as a conclusion for me I think that time dilation is possible, but it comes by it self and we cannot force it.