Thread: 100 years in an LD

Is this possible? I've heard stories where some monks lived 100 years or so in a single dream.

Well people say that yes you can, others say no you can't it depends what you mean by it, if you mean perceiving 100 years and remembering living every second of it then i don't think it is possible and if it is it would be very difficult to do, but what this probably means is that the person lived 100 years in the dream but didn't actually experience everything, so they maybe experienced 100 years but only interacted in it for about an hour, if you understand me

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.

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

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

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

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.

Logical fallacy. Showing that an event did not happen does not prove it never happens.

I'm sure under strange circumstances, and with the kind of control that monks typically have over their minds, it would be possible to experience long periods of time in a dream... a whole lifetime's a stretch, though.

From what I understand, it is possible to perceive a dream to be many years, but you don't actually experience every moment of it.

LaBerge's experiment showed that dream time and real time are equivalent, not non-lucid dreams.

In non-lucid dreams, you can dream of abstracts and your subconcious will fill in the details. I think if you then dream of multiple sequential abstracts that follow a chronological order, it is possible that a dream may be perceived as lasting a long time.

I remember having non-lucid dreams that seemed like they lasted days, but never lucid dreams.

Where you heard them ?

It's possible that they exited one dream then got into a new one, and lucidly recreated the last scene that there were in so that they could continue the dream.

it might be possibe that our perception of time is distorted in dreams (like how time seems to pass slower when we're bored)

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