Actually, we should be counting our REM time. Deep Sleep between REM periods seems like half a second dreaming, which explains why we think time goes faster in dreams.
If I don’t experience the dream as it is happening I will not have any recall of it. So I have to dispute that theory.
I was reading the Evelyn Wood speed reading program and they claimed that it is estimated that the brain can think more than 50,000 words per minute. That is a huge leap over the average reading ability of 250.
Apply that to dreaming, it takes time for us to do things in real life because our bodies don’t have the ability to do things in the speed our brain might like. But in dream the only limit is the speed of which the brain can compute things, so a dream lasting days when in fact it’s less then 90minutes of real time is highly likely. Our brains register and sort an amazing amount of data per second, including all our bodily functions.
I would say with 99% confidence that our brain can create a dreamscape and take us through hours/days of dream life in a single night of sleep, with ease.
i would have to agree with Mohegan
because it just makes sense also bones just keep trying just do it passivley and you will succeed but once you notice your doing it it will probebly stop. also do it at night when were about to sleep works better cause your tired.
Anyone can remember a dream, even if not experienced consciously as it was happening. It happens to me all the time. Or am I misunderstanding you?
I still believe that it is in the remembering of a dream that we fill in the gaps, which make it seem that a lot has happened in that short period of real time.
I believe dreaming is a thing of associations. Sometimes more detailed then other times. But it also seems to me that the more conscious/lucid I am, the less ‘jumpy’ these associations are, and the more fluent the storyline and the details become. And the more details and lucidity, the more dreamtime will slow down.
At the same time I don’t disprove of your theory that in real life we are slowed down by the laws of nature, whereas in dreams these laws don’t apply, which makes it possible to experience more in the same time. Maybe our theories are both right in some way.
Besides that of course you are also right in that our brains are capable of doing an immense amount of computing. Thing is that we waste a lot of our computing time on senseless things like worrying, longing, fantasizing, remembering and nervously trying to keep our minds busy, so as to not experience feelings that we are afraid of.
If we were more relaxed and at the same time focused our attention better, I believe that we would experience life much more intense and perceive time in a ‘slowed down’ way.
I suppose this is what some call Lucid Living or what buddhism calls enlightenment. But perhaps I’m going off topic here.
But I have never been able to recall any dream, not even fragments, if I wasn’t consciously aware of the dream as it was happened. While I know it is possible, it’s never happened with me.
Well, I only remember lets say, 2% of my dreams, so that’s not a lot either. But more then nothing…
But to get back on topic; I sometimes find that I’m constructing dreams almost the way movies are constructed: changing the script as I go along.
While non lucid dreaming, I can sometimes find myself thinking of the next interesting turn that my dream could take. Like perhaps it would be interesting to walk into a building. And when I find something dangerous there, I sometimes go back to the point where I was still outside the building and try to think of a ‘scene’ that suits me better, try that out, perhaps even change that again, etc. Thus constructing a dream storyline that suits me best. And this constantly trying out of possible ‘scenes’ would go very quickly.
I feel that I might be doing this all the time when dreaming, but almost always totally subconsciously.
I suppose this could also influence the perception of time while dreaming.
duuuuddee this looks so awesome! I gotta find some time to read it! lol its like cheating in life.
EDIT: I’ve read it and I’m going to do it next time I’m close to a pendulum. My grandma has a good one. Sorta like a metronome but it’s an old one. I thin its a pendulum, not sure.
haha your welcome! (this is dogg, got a diff account) anyway.
ya are you having any luck with that, frankly i stoped with that website mostly everybody on thoes forums thought it was a hoax. oh well. right now im trying to get chi, to zap people, and to start fires withought matches. (some chinese guy did it) there is a video. dont remember what its called though