Thread: Just had a 3 1/2 - 4 hour lucid dream

You mentioned you had a lot of false awakenings.
Its possible that in between one of those you slipped into a deeper state of sleep, then when your next dream started you instantly became lucid?

Another possibility is that you passed into a deeper state of sleep shortly after the phone call, and then later in the day your friend woke you up (you were in deep sleep for hours, though it only seemed seconds between the dream and waking up).
Time and consciousness can get pretty freaky sometimes. I remember once when I was laying in bed I closed my eyes for about two seconds, then re-opened them: eight hours had passed.


Of course, its always possible that you stayed trapped in a dream completely aware of your state for four hours.
I have to ask you though, looking back on the experience, did it really seem like 14,400 seconds had passed? Or that the amount of time you were in the dreamstate is really comparable to watching eight family guy episodes in a row?

I'm not trying to doubt you here. Like I said earlier, consciousness is a very slippery thing, its much easier to believe that you blinked away 3 1/2 hours than that you were in a nonstop fully lucid dreamstate for such a huge amount of time

Sounds just like what happens in the movie "waking life" , the false awakenings and the length. Any way i have to say Billy Bob is probably right. Though i wish isnt.

well it's it hard to know for sure if i was really in the dream for that long but all i can say is that without a doubt it was the longest dream i ever had in my life. when i woke up it felt like it was forever ago that i went to sleep. I specifically remember each false awakening and then realizing that i was not really awake and then the dream that fallowed. I don't understand what you mean by "blinked away 3 1/2 hours" when exactly are you suggesting that i blinked away the 3 1/2 hours? I told you that when I heard the phone ring i was already in a lucid dream (it was after my 2nd or 3rd false awakening) and i specifically remember what i was doing in the dream at the time that the phone rang and I never left the state of consciousness after it rang until i woke up. (about 3 hours later real time)

I know some people don't believe me that i had a lucid dream for this long but I don't know what to tell them other than, what would i gain out of making up such a story? I don't post regularly on this forum and I'm not trying to sell a website or anything. And i'm not claiming to be some great and powerful lucid dreamer that is so much better than all of you. I only posted the dream because it was an experience that i went through that felt very real to me. And i know that people on this website know more than I know about dreams. And truthfully the experience was not a good one. It wasn't something that was fun. it was actually pretty scary.

All i want to know is more information about what happened.

Sorry if I somehow offended you, I was just trying to get more information before deciding for myself whether or not I believe you actually stayed in a dream for four hours. Its a pretty big deal when a person that hasn't had many lucids dreams suddenly says they were trapped in their minds for such a huge period of time (it opens up many new possibilities for other lucid dreamers).

Just so we're clear:
when I said "blinked away 3 1/2 hours" I was referring to the possibility of you temporarily falling unconscious in between one of your false awakenings.
This bout of unconsciousness could have only happened once (lasting for hours), or it could have been happening in between every single dream (lasting ten minutes each).


I honestly don't understand why you got so defensive, as all I did was give you more information about what could have possibly happened to make it seem like you were in a dream for so long

I guess I could give other possibilities:

• Your "special" and can go for incredible lengths of time in REM.
• This was a freak accident caused by something you ate or experienced recently (it'll never happen again).
• You have some type of mental disorder that has causes you to stay trapped in REM.
• Other.

EDIT: This post probably looks pretty mean now. He edited his last post as I was writing this one.

I have been having lucid dreams all my life and today while taking a nap for a few hours I had a few hours of lucid dreaming. During that time, I awoke a few times due to phone ringing and went right back to the same event (person in the dream that I was originally dreaming about). When I layed back down after answering the phone, I simply said to myself that I wanted to go back to the same dream and I willed it. I have been doing this for years and in the dream I told the person that I was dreaming and that I would be leaving soon because I was dreaming...I was crying over the fact that I was leaving soon. These type dreams are so real for me that I am depressed and sad when waking because I miss the person. Usually it is a person that has passed away or an old flame that I used to be in love with. I have been wondering for years if there were others who had the same ability as me.