I’m not sure if I read this here or in another LDimg site. But someone claimed (this was an advanced LDer) that he could make his LDs seem like they lasted an actual year…
IMO I think that this is possible, but of course it would require a certain level of lucidness…
What do you guys think?
I think that the distortion of time to that extent may be far fetched, but slowing time would make since, due to relativity. Sounds like a good expiriment for the Lab
Cheers
I have a pretty good recall of how dreaming was for me when I was young, like two or three years old young, and my dreams seemed VERY long. Now that I think about it, I used to go to sleep, knowing I was going into a dream and it was so vivid that I came up with the theory that perhaps we are perpetually waking up from another dream (of course not with that vocabulary), because my reality and real life were so intertwined. I would wake up and have a different perception of time, though. I think it could have easily been perceived as months or even years, as the stories in my dream involved character development and events based off other events. When I woke up time would be a lot more solid and less phenomenal, if that makes sense. I’m a firm believer that time is but an illusion. In waking reality, time is an aspect that everyone has to share, so it must be somewhat consistent. However in our dreams, or even while on drugs that cause time distortion, time is what we make of it depending on our experiences. I think it’s possible that with enough training one can slow down down the speed that ‘time’ passes in their dreams, but it’s all relative to how ‘fast’ events happen and how fast we can interpret them. Maybe when we were younger, we simply didn’t try to reason things (which makes sense because little kids don’t question magic, mystical creatures, etc.), and now that we are older we are forced to try to interpret everything we see, which is impossible. There’s so many things we see daily that we have to ignore just because of ‘time’. It seems we are all in a big rush to go nowhere. Perhaps we try to understand the things that are ‘important’ and throughout our lives are pressure to get better and better at noticing, interpreting, and handling these ‘important’ things so much that we in fact make time pass quicker for ourselves. Surely improving dream recall and lucid dreaming is bringing a piece of our childhood back to us. This might explain why time seems to experientially pass faster and faster as we age. Sorry I went kind of off topic, but if we can bring our lost ability to dream, surely we can manipulate our perception of time. I’m very interested in this now, actually.
I want to copy write this post. That was a lot of philosophizing and thinking as I typed it.
I’ll say it once again: Robert Monroe has dreamt a hundred years in two hours.
aha robert monroe that was the guys name i was thinking of…well thanks for telling me his name but no thanks for stealing my post 
haha. Well once i can start lucid dreaming more i want to start having lucid dreams that last very long but i wonder how weird it would be after 100 years and just waking up into your life you had 100 years ago! i mean would you even remember the date or who your friends and family are or anything? weird but i want to try it haha
In my opinion, altering the perception of time in a dream is a possibility. If indeed it can be altered, it would probably be somewhat difficult to acheive. Although, I suppose that some people may find it easier than others, since I’m only saying this according to my own experiences, and even when I’m lucid, I rarely have much control over the dream, let alone my perception of time.
Lol, that’s what I always wonder too. I mean you would be all disoriented when you woke up. Like “what year is this?” lol. That would actually be funny.
BTW who is robert monroe?
Google and wikipedia are your best friends, know that 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe
haha yep that is very true but to sum it up, Robert Monroe is just another dead scientist with his own institute that discovered most of the stuff your reading about! haha
I think it COULD work. Like everyone has been saying, it depends on your level of control on the dream. I would be amazed if any of us could make one of our dreams last a week. I can only imagine what 100 years would be like… 
What if we are all in a lifelong lucid dream right now???
Makes you think.
yes…when would we wake up? are we all having our own dreams, or are they intertwined? ah, it’s oh-so complex…
I guess we get our answers when we die. Maybe this is the life and death is a pitch black void? Who knows.
It reminds me of the Chronicles of Narnia, how the kids go through the wardrobe and spend their lives as kings and queens for a long time, and forget about their lives in the real world. Then they find the wardrobe again and pop out as children and remember it all again. Maybe it’s similar. Maybe once we woke up, it would all come back to us in an instant. Hmm… I wonder if C.S. Lewis ever experienced lucid dreams?
Could you imagine journaling a dream that lasted 100 years? Or even 1 year? So many events. Wow, I wonder how much of it you could remember.
Only the important parts, of course. I don’t think you can journal a hundred years. Just like you can’t journal your entire life (Atleast not in three hours. You will need months to do that)
life is for getting answers
death is for reviewing life, though i bet the answers are very obvious then as you get the big perspective
void is only temporary, when the causes and conditions for you to be alive are met, you are born
i’ve thought of the idea of just sitting in a lucid dream and counting
i wouldn’t want to count for that long, but its the best way to know how long they last.
i counted 3 minutes once, it took forever lol
lol i guess time really is distorted then