So first and foremost, I don’t usually leave the safety of my lurker status online in most spaces I reside in, but I am trying this time to reach out and talk about some of my lucid/recurring dreaming experiences ^^
I have had a pretty easy time lucid dreaming since I was young, maybe as early as 5-6 that I can recall. The dreams that stuck with me the most were a fragment of one where I was standing across from myself as a young child, and all he was doing was standing in front of a large dumpster at the end of my childhood street for what felt like a long time. I have multiple locations in my dreams that I have revisited multiple times that are still vivid enough for me to recall draw parts of them today.
Now to what I really wanted to chat with anyone who has experience with long dreams. I am asking for others who have lived through the dreams for decades. The dreams I have lived through didn’t last “years” as if time was skipping ahead with gaps in time; it was dreams where I woke up, went through day-to-day life, went to sleep, woke back up in the dream for the next day to begin. The lengths of the dreams have been 37 years, 250~ years, and 300~ years, all of which I woke up from and felt all of those “years” of emotions suppressed into someone who has only lived a fraction of that time. Those dreams left me with bad lapses back into week-long depressive episodes and in a poor mental state over relationships I had with people who didn’t physically exist anywhere except fragments of memory.
I don’t know how many people have had dreams that last whole days/months/years aside from the “Wrong Lamp” individual, but if anyone has any similar experiences, please feel free to share them ^^ (and also so I can reassure my doubts on it being something only a very small number of people experience XP)
