Quote Originally Posted by Spamtek View Post
Some possibilities with time dilation:

1)Bull****
2)Scene changes give the illusion of extended time
3)Appropriate temporal memory gives the direct illusion of a long span of time occurring
4)Overclocked brain subjectively experiences more moments in an objective period of time than it does while awake.
5)You slip into a magical time vortex where anything is possible.
I'm not sure I understand #3... do you mean that when you start dreaming, you basically create a "backstory" to the dream, with memories to go with it? I could see that being the case, the dream may not last too long, but it seems to last a long time because you have these "memories" from earlier in the dream.

Really, who's to say that's not the case in real life? Maybe you just popped into existence a few minutes ago with years worth of memories created at the same time.

I really doubt that #4 could make dreams last months... even if we assume a Buddhist crazy-skilled dreamer could manage to have a lucid dream lasting 8 real hours (i.e. all night) to get a dream lasting a month by #4, he'd still have to speed up his brain by 90x. Let alone dreams that last years... If we were capable of using our brains that much more effectively, don't you think we'd do it more often?