I ran into a site about LD the other day, and they mentioned some cool things that can be done in a LD but that just seem to good to be true. First of, can you use LD to study things you are to know for school etc.? And I read on this side that you can also use photoreading on a book and than acces it in a dream… (would be cool, I can keep my f*ck homework aditude and still get high grades ) Also they say you can stop time in a dream and so spend years in just one nights dream? Are these things possible or is it just one bridge to far?
The site: (Look under 2.25. How can I use Lucid Dreams to read 1 million words per minute? and 2.23. How can I stop real time in my Lucid Dreams?)
Well, I haven’t had any LD’s myself yet, but I can imagine that you can’t study for school by having a LD… . Despite what the saying ‘Logic brings you from A to B, fantasy brings you everywhere’ says, it’s not completely true. Fantasy is limited by what you have seen, heard, smelled and felt in your life. An example: try and imagine a 6th sense (not like “I see dead people”, that ‘sense’ uses the eyes, an already existing sense). It’s not doable, let alone explainable.
What I’m trying to say is: when you’re in a LD, you’re fantasizing. If you haven’t read what’s in your book, you can’t fantasize the exact texts in your book. Sure, you can make up some text and fantasize that that’s the text that the book contains, but it probably won’t be the real text in the book.
Now, photoreading on a book… If you can actually do that, take like pictures of pages of your book and actually store these photographs in your mind… That’s a whole other thing. In a LD, you’re probably able to recall those images and make them appear in your dream, so, yeah, I think that might work !
About the question, stopping time in a dream: I don’t know about that, as I said before: I have had absolutely no LD’s yet, but I imagine you are able to stop time. If you’re also able to do years of work, I dunno 'bout that … After all, times does tick on in the normal world and you will have to wake up sometime. But still, I don’t know, no experience yet… But I’m sure someone else here knows
I have no clue about all your other questions, but I remember reading somthing 'bout stopping, or slowing time down in a book.
It was an experment done with hypnosis. They hypnotised a college student, then told her she’d have all the time she’d need to make up a dress. In reality, she sat and thought for only 10 seconds, but to her, it seemed like a hour.
Another experment from the same book was to hypnotse an artest to make him perceve the world differently. Then they made him do a painting in the differed state. His paintings(which ussally look the same) differed greatly.
Since hypnosis is about getting in touch with your subconsious just like LDing, I thought the experments outcome would work for the both of them.
I’m intrested in this kind of thing too. Mabye it’ll help my dreams can last longer and stuff.
I don’t know for sure, but I’m going to hazard a guess that most people are incapable of subconsciously absorbing a piece of writing and then re-accessing this through dreams.
JPeetje, it’s true that your imagination does have certain limits. But in an LD, your brain will whatever it can to respond to your expectations. If you expect in a lucid dream to be able to see ultraviolet light, your brain will do its best to come up with a workable representation of that. I’ve heard of people creating sonar or 360-degree vision for themselves (in LDs); all these things have to be done without prior experience to guide you along.
Now, if you just say “I want a 6th sense” without any sort of expectation of what you want, I don’t think much would happen. But if you, say, expect to suddenly be able to see sound waves, your brain would figure out a way to represent that.
I also think it might be posible to slow time in an LD. My own suggestion was that people with near-dead experiences say they saw there entire live flaching by in a second, but it seemed realtime to them. Or people with such an experiences see everything happening in slow-motion and black-white but they think and handle even faster than normal. Everything in the universe is relative, so I think time might also be as fast or slow to what you want it / need it to be.
Photo reading is an alternative reading techniec using your subconcious. I am practising on it, but its hard to tell if it works. I did photoread the dictionairy once, and my brother asked me the following questions:
(he mentioned a random word that he had looked up first)
Is it on the right or the left page?
Is it in the right or the left column?
Is it in the middle, upperhalf or lower half of that column?
On witch line is it?
I scored well above geusing change and one time I answered all the questions correct and we where quite supprised by the outcome. I am now starting to test the techniek on school subjects that I dislike and suck at. If I get good grades then it most work
Active study is hard because you are in the realm of the subconcious. What you are asking about is highly improbable. However, I do know of a case where a biochemist would use lucid dreaming to setup complicated glassware setups the night before he went into the laboratory, so that he could practice the setup and if he broke a flask, he could summon a new one. But as for actual complex study, i believe in some reports i have read, that dreams correlate with creativity center of the brain, not the logical section. Thus it’s easy to paint an amazing picture in a dream, but highly unlikely you’ll be able to read/do maths/etc.
yes, i agree with noodle, because many people find it difficult to read in dreams, as the text keeps changing , it could make it impossible to revise from a book. But doing experiments for science, or practising techniques for art etc. would work!
) Also they say you can stop time in a dream and so spend years in just one nights dream? Are these things possible or is it just one bridge to far?
… After all, times does tick on in the normal world and you will have to wake up sometime. But still, I don’t know, no experience yet… But I’m sure someone else here knows 
In reality, she sat and thought for only 10 seconds, but to her, it seemed like a hour. 
Mabye it’ll help my dreams can last longer and stuff.