Dreamwalker, where have ya gone!? we need your input.
Oh, i never claimed to have a lifetime dream or proposed any belief in it. i did question it though.
Heh. Sorry, Ben. I’ve been having email problems, and I didn’t get the notification. You’ve been accepted into the group now. 
lol no worries…thanks atheist!!!
/me goes to start planning out project for lab…
About what seemed like 5 minutes.
But since you don’t have anything to judge time with you really can’t be sure.
I mean we judge time by using the sun/moon. But these aren’t necessarily working like they normally do in my dreams so it’s actually impossible to tell.
So my estimate for my longest dream would have to be 5 minutes, when in actual real life time it lasted only a couple of seconds.
This is my opinion at least
i don’t think normal people can dream for a lifetime, especially lucidly, because first of all WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
this would be hell. I mean that. I mean that 100% literally. Anything forever is hell. You are interacting with yourself, so what do you do? Have sex for 5 years? It would get old in a few hours. Do dream drugs? They would stop working. You’d do anything and everything and you’d go insane.
NDs that last a “lifetime” quite possibly may happen, and they could be hybrid ND/LD type situations… maybe summarizing a past life that you had and looking at it from its important stages thus making you feel (loading into your brain, but not experiencing as a continous time flow) like you dreamed a lifetime.
i don’t think you can have a significantly long LD without some sort of higher spiritual purpose… but perhaps you can meditate inside an LD, attain a timeless feeling, and use that to keep you FEELING like you’ve been dreaming forever, and only when you grow weary of the dreamstate does it start to fade into normal sleep (or waking) again.
Lately I’ve been dreaming HEAVILY in the first REM(s) in the first 4 hours of sleep. I wake up after 4 hours and feel like I’ve been dreaming a super long time, though at the same time it just feels like short normal sleep. The dreams are not particularly lucid or vivid or interactive, they are passive and on the verge of complete forgetfulness (i can’t tell you what a single one was about, but i have vague rememberences upon waking)