Quote Originally Posted by DrTechnical View Post
No it's not. Dream time and real time run equivalent. Laberge proved this by having people count to ten in their lucid dreams, signalling via eye movements to the lab attendies when they began and finished the counting. The result was a synergy in relative time.

People can be fooled into believing dreams last a long time due to the disjoint nature of dreams. Much like a TV scene that jumps from day to night in an instant - we get the perception 12 hours or so have passed. The same effect affects your perspective of how long a dream lasted.
You definately explained it better than i did! lol