In the last few days I haven’t been to remember as many dreams as normal. I usually can remember around 4–5 or so dreams a night give or take a couple. But the last few nights I have been having one long dream and it is the only one I can remember.
It seems to me that they are lasting through 3 or so REM cycles because there is a definite change in the storyline but it all still flows, normally. Over the last few days I have stopped trying so hard to have a lucid dream by any particular method and have been focusing more on just letting it come by noticing stuff that is out of place then doing a RC, since that is the only way I have become lucid so far.
I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else, the long single dream thing that is.
it happens. it could be multiple dreams following the same “storyline”, but stop and start throughout the various REM cycles, and then they just get linked together when you wake up and appear to be one long single dream. or if you believe dreamtime can be separate from real time, then it could be you’re remembering only the super long dream these past nights.
Well this is physically impossible, as you have 80 minute intervals between REM stages. and theres no way it can flow through that, unless as nemo suggested when you woke up you SC combined them all into 1 dream.
That’s true only for the first REM stages, as each REM period lasts approx. 90 minutes, and late ones are mostly made up of REM, so there’s at most 10 continuous minutes of non-REM.
Besides, I know of people who, each night, dream a continuation of the adventure they had the night before, all in a continuum. So it would be definitely possible for a REM phase to pick up the story of the previous one.
But, that can’t be deducted from the duration alone. A 2+hrs dream can easily fit into a single REM phase, as time in dreams is easily stretched.
Besides, to get back into the topic, I’ve been having longer and longer dreams lately, but that’s because I learned to keep a coherent memory of each scene in the dream, so instead of forgetting some transitions and calling them separate dreams, it is just one long sequence.
Ok, thanks for all of your insights. 
I think what most likely happened-time stretches easily in dreams, and when your DR is good, dreams seem REALLY long.
Yeah, I have noticed that also. My dream recall is pretty good. But that is also why I thought the dreams might be bleeding over into the next REM cycle, because the dream would continue but there was an obvious change in the dream and it was the only one I could remember so… I think maybe the next cycle just kinda picked up where the other left off. Thanks for the replies.