Moved to General Lucidness ~ Q ~
i know that the REM periods last from 5-50 minutes, but can you have a lucid dream that lasts as long as you sleep? like one that goes for and feels like 8 hours?
I have only had a few LDs and my longest has lasted about 30 minutes (it felt that way, anyway.)
I have heard people say that they spend days in their dreams. I forget where I read this, but there was this one article that said that this one guy claims to have spent 100 years in a lucid dream. I think it was on Wikipedia.
I also remember reading an article on a test that was done to see how fast time passes while dreaming compared to the real world. They had the dreamers move their eyes in certain ways to count out seconds or something like that, and the results came back that time passed at pretty much the same speed as real life.
I suppose you can’t really know without having one that lasts for a long time. Maybe someone who has more experience can answer that.
Well, I myself have had a certain dream. It was an OBE in fact. After I got out, I just walked around. I thought about my life for a while, reflected on what I had done. I just remembered this dream, because my memory had long lost it. Thank you, your post made me remember it. This dream is what made me turn my life around. When I was in high school, I was slacking off. I then had this OBE. It seemed to last forever. I cannot even describe it too you easily. My guess would be that it felt almost like a full day to me. The occurrences in OBE’s are very odd.
Think of it like pouring your thoughts into a funnel. When you are awake, the hole that the thoughts have to go through is relatively small. But when you are dreaming, and you are being fed even more thoughts than you were when you are awake, but because you are dreaming, that hole the funnel has is much larger, and you are processing more thoughts in a shorter amount of time, which intern creates a distorted sense of time. Does that help explain it to you?
-tyrael 
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Great comparisson, I’d never thought of it like that. 
I’ve also had some very long dreams.
It’s actually several dreams, but i feel like it lasts for a day or few.
my longest LD thus far was 6-8 minutes, but yeah, I’m sure longer ones are possible.
there is an entire category of dreams between 4 - 7 am which can last a very long time
yet you might not even notice them
i had a WBTB wake me up at 6:40 and i thought to myself “oh my i had been dreaming forever” and i understood the gist of them all
then went back to sleep and dreamed even longer
it is the period of time in this early morning in which you can dream for hours and hours , but it is that the dreams are for processing information, and so you may not be lucid, or very present to understand and witness them.
Tibetan dream yogis, who practice lucid dreams, claim experienced dream yogis can be conscious throughout the whole night, through REM sleep and slow wave sleep. Of course, I assume that takes years and years of exercising their practice.
Robert Monroe reported having a dream that lasted a hundred years in two hours of real time.
(I don’t know who the heck he is, so don’t ask)
Let’s say you go into a coma. Let’s say your in that coma for 30 years. Let’s say that the last thing you thought about was having an LD.
There you have it, the ultimate LD.
I am certain I have had lucid dreams that felt like they lasted for a full long nights sleep. Honestly though I had never given it any thought and there is no way to prove how far into my sleep the dream started.
Having a dream that seems like 100 years, sounds like the 50 years dream the characters in Inception had. After a 100 years dream wouldn’t you be pretty fucked up? I know i would be obliterated. Imagine living your life then having a lucid dream that lasts 100 years. Then waking up and coming back to a normal and stressful life after 100 years of unlimited possibilities. First thing you do is to go back to sleep.Or maybe not. If you were bored after the 70th year. Who knows? Maybe Monroe. After some weeks the dream would become your reality. Question is: Won’t you feel sick knowing that every character and every thing is not real?
I would adore having a lucid dream that would last days, maybe a week. It would be like vacations to the best place ever.
Having a dream that seems like a 100 years is pretty sick. Just think about if you had a 100 year dream every night! o.O
That’s like spending…eh…types on calculator… 32,4 million years of dreaming if you get to be 90 years old in the real life! That guy would for sure be very wise and smart, lol xD
You haven’t take many factors in that number, but still, it would be HIGH.
Its just crazy! 
Waa 100 years !
It’s so long 0_0
When you wake up after 100 years, I imagine that you feel a kind of desorientation…
The longest dream I’ve made was about 2 generations !
I was young and I was travelling on a boat, then the boat grounded on an island. I don’t tell details, but we built houses and we survived. I was growing up, I got married. Then I had a son, but soldiers from our country arrived and made the war on the island. I didn’t see my death, but in this dream I “embody” my son and I said that soldiers killed my parents (I was about ten years old). After, the island was totally destroyed by the war, and the dream stop here…
I wasn’t lucid but when I tell this dream, it’s very long because there is a lots of characters, details…
And when I woke up I feel that it was too short >__<