Hi, I’m new to the forums, and have had LD’s for about a year.
Has anyone had a really, really long dream. Like weeks long? Last night I spent around 3 months in 1 LD, and woke up the next day pretty confused XD. Every time I went to bed in my LD, I had a false awakening, and it kept happenning for, like, ages.
I’ve also had a few that lasted a couple of days, but they were nothing compared to last night. How long have you spent in an LD before?
My longest was couple of days long [Taken from the story that was in the LD] but I have never reached more than that neither did I try to do so. 
Also, I have heard of the story 100 days in 100 minutes of Stephen Laberge.
Dream scape time can be bent by your own brain activity 
i had a dream that seemed to chronicle a summary of consistent relationship patterns in such that a group of us were sleeping, getting up, acting, sleeping, etc
for what seemed long enough that when i awoke back here i was baffled as to how long i had been dreaming ,
this kind seems to arise because information is being processed, and the information is not of the conscious ego self, so its like watching a very very long movie ,
now what i ask all of you ,
if this is the way dreams last within time, and when the information is over the screen goes blank or white, and the theater is empty, so you float and awaken, and if you are lucid, you experience transition of between,
then is the conscious mind capable of making up long streams and narratives and programs of information while lucid, so that it can have a dream run auto-pilot ensuring for certain that this dream will last perpetually ,
i do not think "waking up " is placebo, that we think “i don’t want to wake up because i’m lucid!” so we wake up,
but that does have a part, i think it is a mixture, and the free will might be usable to be in a very long lucid dream, as long as the information experienced is continually novel,
how ?
i’ve seen if i simply go into the void by thinking and telling myself what i am going to do next in my dream , in a story, like hypnosis, then i can launch myself easily into that dream.
Not sure on this, but didn’t LaBerge have a dream that was 100 years long, when in fact he had only been sleeping for 8 hours or something?
I’d like to know more about this please 
I think that the 100 year dream was Robert Monroe. LaBerge says, through his experiments, that time passes the same as in waking life. But I’m not sure how far he went with those experiments. I haven’t found anywhere him experimenting with trying to induce longer dreams.
I have a question for you, though. 
In these long dreams, do you have the memory of doing a lot of things? I mean, I’ve had dreams that, when I woke up, I thought “wow, that was long!” (maybe a few hours only, but anyway). But then when I looked back at it I could only remember doing a few things…
I mean, in a 1 week LD do you wake up and get to the conclusion that it would be impossible to do all those things in 1-2 hours?
Just curious 
Well, I had an LD that been over 1 day in the dream, it was beautiful 
but this isnt the longest dream I ever had, the longest dream I had was about 3 days and I thought the DC’s were real people 
I was so confused when I suddently found myself in my bed the second after being in a locker room (or whatever its called).
Interesting topic really, to see how long the members dreams have been 
and btw, 
rmgdood to ld4all
I don’t think I’ve past a day in a dream…
It just goes on forever.
Thats at least what I think. I could be forgetting it of course.
i tell you what !
it would be nice if since we sleep for many hours, every single one of them was in an LD of our choosing, in a good way of course,
i’m wondering what our ornery dream self is up to while we are in NREM, because there are still "dreams’ there but we are asleep so we can’t do anything about it ?
its shifting realities around like puzzle pieces!
Interesting topic indeed!
Would anyone try some techniques for expanding dream duration, like, turning a dream clock’s hands backward, and tell us if it worked?
I had one very recently! Not a lucid dream, but a long normal dream, which was why I came back to these forums. But, it’s taking a lot of time to add it to my DJ (the second-to-last entry in “Fits and Starts” as of now) in a way that won’t be tedious or boring-- even if it was a tedious dream.
I’ve heard the funny complaint that the Lord of the Rings was three novels or movies about Walking. Just walking. “Even the trees were walking!” – well, I dreamed about a journey like that. After a battle with giant zombie weredragon-- which takes up the First and Second Act of my dream-- I had to take its severed head to a witch who lived deep in the woods. As I walked, the landscape kept changing. I would be walking under those Shinto temple-like things, on a paved stone path, and then walking over an endless golf course, and then crossing a old stone dam… walking… walking… for what felt like hours.
The last epic dream I had, at least had the decency to use cinematic cuts. I had it some time in 2003-- I was a genie, acting as a kind of spirit guide for a toddler. I lived in a sprawling exotic land with Middle Eastern architecture, just over a brick wall from the “real” world. The child’s parents were moving, and taking the child with them. Their destination would be somewhere far from the Wall Between The Worlds, so I couldn’t follow unless I had the components for a binding spell.
I had to gamble to get the last ingredient: a fairy’s egg. The casino was located in a bad neighborhood over my side of the wall, that only opened at night. This was cutting it close, because the family was going on the midnight train.
The game to gamble with seemed like a cross between poker and a tarot reading. I won, and flew as fast as I could to get the egg to her, but I was too late-- I missed my dear friend’s train by minutes.
Cut to dream-me brooding the loss while sitting on the Wall Between the Worlds, as the dawn lit up the turban-shaped roofs… and, for some reason, sandstone Stupas like they’re designed in Borobudur Temple. I assume dream-me had been brooding all night.
Love the comment on LotR. It’s so true
I once had a dream (though admittedly not a lucid one) that was as if I lived through an entire new childhood from around 7-17 years old. (So 10 years) I even had friends that are non existent in the real world, and even now I can still recall things we would do when we were “younger.” I don’t think I actually experienced it all, it was probably moreso “dream history” than anything, but it did seem like an extremely long dream, and I do remember lots of things, and not just the feeling that it was long. So perhaps that would count. (Heh, the worst part was waking up and realizing that everyone I knew from childhood didn’t exist, and I was back to my ordinary life. )
3 months! That’s just cool. I guess it’s cause it feels that long. The longest lucid dream I had was like 3 minutes! Assuming that this is possible, I wouldn’t want to have lucid dreams more then a day long. After you finally wake up you’ll be very confused and disoriented.
Longest I had was like 2 hours.
I wonder how long they can get…
I read somewhere about this. they related these long dreams to movies. In a movie if you see someone go to bed and then the scene fades black and then you see them waking up in the morning, it creates the illision that a whole night has passed away and you automaticly beleive it. So if you woke up from a dream where that exact same thing happend you would believe that it lasted a whole night. Hope that made sence.
Ack, I broke my 2 hour dream record with a very long ND. The sheer amount of stuff that happened places the length at a minimum of 5 hours or so. I was knocked unconscious in the dream, and “woke up” later in it, so depending on how long I was “out” along with the other events it could have been as long as a day, but no more. I’ll post a short summary in my DJ.