Thread: 100 years in an LD

I'm not sure about 100 years, but I know that you can dilate dream time; I've done it

I read about this somewhere. If you become a master of dreams, I heard that you are able to distort time. Like walking really fast would like like being slower, do you get what i mean? Like it would feel like an hour but it would actully be 5 minutes. Kind of hard to explain/understand but I hope you get it

Sure it's possible. But like already explained, it'd be a 'bad' 100 years. You'll get detailed snippets and then "3 months later..." and more detailed dreaming and so on.
IMO

I've had a dream that "lasted" 40 years before (using the in-dream chronology).

If "felt", however, like a few weeks. In addition, as the users above me have explained, it did not actually take this long in dream time (let alone real time, I think they call that comatose...), I guess it was a mixture of disjunction, illusion and dilation.

The speed at which your mind can think and persive things is incredible. Hasn't anyone here ever had a super slow moment of incredible focus while not in a dream? I have seen baseballs hit passed me(in the infield) that were seamingly going only a few mph that ended up hitting the fence. The whole thing happened in slow motion. This is just one example. If that can be done in "real time" it should be able to be done in a dream as well.

Would be nice...take a lifetime worth of vacation time everynight....


Of course...its not like even if you did live 100yrs you would remember all of it...Do you remember half the crap that happenned even in the last week that you were alive? hehe.

I can confirm this is possible.

I have dreamed multiple years in a single dream, but not in the way most people would think of it. Time in dreams isn't always flowing at a constant rate. It can speed up or slow down depending on the certain circumstance at hand. Perception of time, however, is a constant. Lets say you experience 1 year in a dream. That 1 year would not be experienced consciously at the same rate 1 minute would. You wouldn't live every second of that 1 year at the same you experience a second in reality. Instead, the second is 'compressed', and thus the one year would fit into the space of 1 minute, or whatever unit of time is being used as the scale constant in your dream.

However, this does not necessarilly mean that dream-time is incoherent. On the contrary, it flows just as fluidy as real time, just faster or slower, or perhaps not at all at points.


In the particular dream I referred to above, I had experienced 2-3 years in a matter of what would normally have been 2-3 minutes in reality, though I remembered every bit of those 2-3 years. However, it wasn't like I experienced those 2-3 years at the same rate you would in reality, but rather I experienced them 'quicker'. Things went by much faster, but I still understood them fluidly. This time acceleration ended after what would have normally seemed like 2-3 minutes, and the rate at which I experienced time went back to normal.


Therefor I believe it is not time which flows faster, but rather the rate at which you perceive it.