Thread: time in dreaming

but umm, what about this one, the gnome
on my only lucid dream

i was doing jump tricks in slooooowwww motion, so umm, i actually controlled time?

Slow motion, yes, not slow TIME. Big difference. You could slow down your motion and do a dropkick or whatever, BUT if it seems to you in your dream that your slow kick took five seconds to execute, you would have been doing it for five real-time seconds.

damnit, i was wasting major time then -.-

If you had actually managed to slow time, you would have been thinking in slow motion as well, and you wouldn't have noticed anything. I'd be willing to bet that you could still think normally, you were just moving slowly - slow motion and not slow time.

People here claim to have had LDs like that. Living years in one dream. Won't know for sure until I try.

unless i sped up my thinking while slowing up the time

When I've noticed the flashing lights of the NovaDreamer in a LD the flash rate seems the same as when I'm awake, if dream time was faster or slower then the flash rate would be different. I've had many a ND though where it feels like I've been doing something for years but I think that is just a dream feeling.

Phsyically a dream can only last for the duration of your REM period. However there is a technique known as Time Dilation or Time Incubation in which one can increase the length of the dream to an extravagant amount of time like hours days weeks months years etc. However I have only gotten it to seem to last for a few hours, but I have heard of people getting their dreams to last for months and years.