When we fall asleep at night or take a nap, we wake up afterwards not really feeling like the amount of hours you actually slept really passed as slow as they normally do. However, although feeling like hardly any time has passed, you know it has. And if you recall your dreams, you know you had been on adventures within your own mind, which took up time. But sometimes (the plot) dreams can seem to span days or weeks or longer.
So, what would happen if someone went to sleep in a lucid dream, and had a lucid dream, while in the lucid dream. They would have their lucid sub-dream, and then maybe wake up hours later in the lucid dream, feeling like no time has passed, but knowing that, in their dream, it has, and that they had a lucid dream, essentially doubling a normal lucid experience.
This struck me as a very interesting (although perhaps completely idiotic and nonsensical) thought.
That seems interesting, but unlikely. If you went to sleep in an LD, you would either really wake up, or have a FA. But there is a chance, especially with advanced LD’ers that you could actually have a “dream inside a dream.” I’m also wondering in those LD’s that seem to span for a week, what keeps people lucid for so long? Do they rub their hands together every 10 minutes?
Well, I don’t know about Lucid Dreams spanning weeks, but there are normal dreams that do this. Mayhaps that can be recreated while dreaming in a Lucid Dream, however.
I would think it’s a linear process… so if you went to sleep in a LD and had a LD, it would be exactly the same. You’re still in the first LD, you just appeared in a different circumstance after falling asleep.
If a dream would last for weeks, then make sure the conditions are good…I don’t think it would be possible unless time traveling itself would work.(people are working on that, but it would take a long long time, but that’s science…wait…this is science…)
Unless you can send yourselves a 10 minute experience in an instant.
I’ve had a dream within a dream…but only managed to become lucid in the second. After a little bit I found myself back in the first dream and all lucidity was gone. Not quite what you were thinking, but how long could someone keep that up and stay lucid?
*Not that I’m recommending anyone try this… probably the way to get there is through a comma, where someone is “out” for a long time, and your mind can go from one lucid dream to the next. Then you just have that much more time alone with your own mind…As long as you were in that state, it just might work…maybe?
and I’m not saying this from personal experience, I haven’t even managed to faint or loose consciousness yet; It was just a thought.
Hey T3RM1N4TOR,
Do you know where in the forum that is? It would be totally incredible to experience a LD for a week or even longer. It would be like a whole separate life!
I just realized that a few days ago, I had a dream that seemed to last 3-4 days.
Until I woke up, then it was just a 20 minute dream; but I was doing different missions for these people, (although all generally the same, no plot missions with 5 obstacles each[deadly obstacles, if i remember correctly, that or puzzles]) and each one was supposed to be a “Day”, as in it was light, got darker, light, darker…space room with space puzzle >.> but then wake-up.
Get Writerscube onto this thread. In his DJ he recalls several dreams that are like 2 weeks long in dream time, and about 9 hours in real time. See how he does that, because this subject interests me a lot too.
I remember reading a while ago that there was once someone who reported having a dream (can’t remember if it was lucid or not) that lasted 100 years, but I have no idea if its true. I’ll try and find wherever I found it.
