Thread: Hong long did you LDs last?

Realistically, LDs are capped at about an hour of "real" time.

Subjectively, as has been said, LDs can last much longer.

Supposedly, there's a strong link between perceived time and memory which can be used to facilitate time dilation. This link is one of the major reasons a year seems so long to children, but as they accumulate experience and turn into adults years seem to fly by.

Lol hong long my lucids last? grammar fail.

Originally Posted by whitemagician91

I was never successfull trying the spinning method to lengthen my dream. All I feel when spinning is dizziness. May be I will give it another try

You can also use focusing to extend the dream I never tried before I read that on here. Like you feel the dream is fading then you look at an object and nothing else to keep generating the object and you extend the dream.

IMJ

from my experiences and some books I read, LDs normally last for about 3 to 4 minutes.The longgest is about 10 mins. I am thinking we put all our efforts for that 4-min lucids? is it worth all our efforts? just wondering..

Well, I'm gonna be that one guy that brings up the movie theories. In Inception they talk about how dream time is longer than real time, and It completely makes sense to me. Your brains technically can simulate time faster. But this may be done in a few ways. The most common that I know of is when you jump around time, making it seem like you were there for longer. You can spend a Day on a resort, but you would just sorta hop from the morning to the afternoon to the evening, spending time in each one giving you the feeling of being there longer. The other way is where you are aware of being there for more than a few hours without jumping around. It is difficult to prove this with science because of the way the brain works. Everyone is different, and so it may just be by luck that the brain decided to hop around, or do different things. If you are looking at a dream in our time, it's gonna be 5-60 minutes in length, but while your in there, it may feel longer, shorter, or non existent.

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If you had drugs to sleep, you may not be in REM but there is still a possibility for you to dream, or to go into REM for a little while, but keep holding onto it because your mind would be so deep in. Just a thought, this could be a reason people last longer.

I feel like I have two different types of dreams, those in real time and those in 'dream' time. I don't know if that is possible, it's just a feeling. For real time it feels like the dreams are maybe 5-15 minutes, usually around 10. Despite the fact that many things can happen in the "movie" that is my dream that would normally equal one hour or more in actual film, it feels sped up. Like I take in all the information in a shorter amount of time. Then with 'dream' time, the lengths are endless. I've had dreams that seemed to go on all night, three hours maybe, but I have heard that isn't possible so I consider it 'dream' time, or fictitious time. Who knows?

Originally Posted by Slumberless

. I've had dreams that seemed to go on all night, three hours maybe, but I have heard that isn't possible so I consider it 'dream' time, or fictitious time. Who knows?

if that's true, you are the lucky one who could stay in dream in a very long time.