*I am fully aware there could be a discussion on this topic somewhere on MM but i noticed this forum is a bit more relaxed than most and people might understand, after reading this why I didn't spend time searching.*
For the past year or so i stopped writing in my dream journal, after that my dream vividness deteriorated and with it my recall and lucidity. for at least eight months i had close to no lucid dreams at all.
Untill about four months ago i had a really vivid lucid dream i remember it perfectly. But the point is not what happened in the dream but what i found out/discovered.
I'm sure all of you know the feeling when your happily Lucid dreaming but it seems like you wake up way too quickly than you intended to and even in the time that you slept you didn't get enough done.
That is where Time comes in. In that memorable lucid i had 4 months ago i wanted to improve my flying skills initially so i thought i would fly from London to Tibet. I must have been flying at the speed of light because in a couple of seconds i was in the Tibetan mountains (or so i thought, i haven't actually ever seen them in my life but i imagine that is what they look like).
After circling the highest peak i had a little trouble landing and almost lost lucidity but i held on somehow.
It seemed really boring to be honest so i thought, as this is MY Tibet i would change the scenery a bit. i blew up a mountain with a flick of my eyelid.. this is where the good stuff begins!
In the midst of the rubble i saw a silhouette floating towards me. He told me to stop wasting my time as i will be awake soon.
When he flew closer i saw he was an old man, maybe a monk, bold with a long white beard.
I asked him how does he know i'll soon wake up as he is just a funny DC
and he said the most peculiar thing "why are you so sure that i am a DC, i am a dreamer just like you"
when i heard that i became really uneasy and once again i almost lost my consciousness. i think i might have for a moment slipped out of lucidity but the monk said "remember this is your dream"
And i became lucid again. After some dream related topics were raised i asked the man why can't the TIME that im lucid feel realistic.
He told me that TIME is a funny thing even in real life, it's an abstract feeling, "that's why time flies when you're having fun" he said.
And i asked him how i can make TIME last longer while im lucid.
And he said to "meditate" which really pissed me off i told him not to anger me with the monk meditation shit but he was already gone, out of my anger i woke up.
LUCKILY i remembered the whole dream and since then i "set out" on a quest to expand the fabric of time in my dreams.
in the four months since my lucidity became much like if not better than before my year long dry spell and day in day out i was looking for ways to expand time in dreams.. Part of what the monk said was true "time flies when you're having fun"
When i became lucid in my dreams i would sit down and keep on counting to 10 then repeating to myself that i'm lucid and start all over .. they were really boring lucids for the first month because all they involved was counting. in around the second month i noticed i don't need to count to feel actual TIME flowing. so i started building paper airplanes in my dreams. i built about 30 in half an hour then in waking time i built 30 and it also took me about half an hour. so basically i reached a moment when actual time reflected dream time perfectly. But then the biggest question of all came to me.
What if i can extend dream time to last longer than actual time?
It is really hard to imagine but guys, imagine the possibilities if you want to do something productive while you're lucid for example writing lyrics for songs or something.. you wouldnt have to spend 2 hours of real life writing music when you could dream for 24 hours while being asleep for 8.
The possibilities are endless. Once, i came close, i think. to actually dreaming longer than i'm asleep but when i did my lucdity became weaker and weaker the longer i extended the time..
The point of this post is to ask every advanced Lucid Dreamer on MM : Have any of you contemplated this? i have become fixated on expanding time in my dreams it has become my life's work.. or at least for the past 4 months. If ANYONE has ANY pointers or clues on the mystery of TIME in dreams it would greatly help me.
Please and Thank You.
