I am currently studying in college, and there is a large clock tower near the university. Today, I had a short LD fragment, in which I was in some strange witch’s house. Suddenly, I heard the chimes of the clock tower, and started to count them. One… two… three… and so forth. They came with the exact same rythm as in real life. I got the total number of chimes to eight. Then, to check if it was right (and voiding the LD in the process), I woke myself up and looked at my alarm clock. Indeed, it was 8:01 AM.
This could possibly further demonstrate that time perception is the same in LD’s as in waking life.
i don’t think he’s trying to say that he discovered that LD’s happen in real time… I think that he was just fascinated by the fact that the chimes in his LD were perfectly timed. as if his subconscious knows exactly how long a second/minute/whatever is.
I was fascinated that I could get what time it was in reality, from within my dream. The chimes, like LDreamer said, were simply heard “within” my dream. In addition, I heard them with the same rythm in real life - so I was both fascinated by the fact that I could count them accurately, and that I could further confirm the Dream/Real life time scale.
Bombax, there are always exceptions. Sometimes dreams last longer…i managed to have really long dream once, and i had just pressed snooze on my alarm (5 mins).
But yea mostly the dream time is same as real time. Nice one exiting the LD just to check it out
That’s pretty cool Bombax I’ve also been fascinated once where I was able to wake up at the exact minute I wanted.
I my opinion though, LaBerge (from what I’ve read) and this dream (even though it was cool! ) don’t prove time is the same in dreams. It might “prove” time can be the same in dreams or that time usually is the same in dreams.
I haven’t seen anyone prove you can’t alter the perception of time. But that might just be me. As Spider said above I’ve also read other dreams that seemed very ver long. Getting kind of off-topic here
That’s so cool! And even though Stephen LaBerge has proved that we dream in real time, it’s nice to have personally confirmed it.
To Scarface: It sure is possible for sound and other external stimuli to make it into dreams. That’s how the lucid dreaming masks work - by making lights and/or sound that manifest into your dreams, giving you a cue that you are dreaming.
Bombax (and anyone else who has experienced real sound manifesting into a lucid dream), do you find that sound coming from reality have a different “quality” than the dream sounds? I find that sounds from reality in lucid dreams sound differently than the internal dream sounds. When you are listening to music through headphones and take them off and put them around the neck, that’s exactly what the quality of the real sound is like to me. It’s quite useful, as it makes me able to tell the difference.
Youre really lucky that you can hear sounds from real life in LDs in real life. If I were you, I would an RC everytime I heard those bells, so that when you hear them in your dream, you do an RC and BAM!
man, i do this, but even worse.
i hear my alarm clock
im LD’ing, doing whatever i want, and suddenly, i get sucked out of it, and see this really bright light, and hear my clock beebing at me, and i can actually tell when all this is happening.
its annoying.
I’ve also been fascinated once where I was able to wake up at the exact minute I wanted.
As Spider said above I’ve also read other dreams that seemed very ver long. Getting kind of off-topic here 
And even though Stephen LaBerge has proved that we dream in real time, it’s nice to have personally confirmed it. 
