i mean your brain can process a lot of data in a split second
Traumatised? Why? You’ve had 123 years to prepare for the moment when you wake up. If you were completely unaware you were dreaming I’d be a mindjob, sure. Traumatising, I wounldn’t ASSUME so.
You may liken it to learning about lucid dreaming when in your entire life you haven’t remembered a single dream. You know they exist, like you’d know real life exists in a 123year dream. Then you suddenly have a lucid dream. It may be confusing even though you know what is happening. It may be scary until you realise it’s an irrational fear. It may even change the way you view the world.
If you wake up from that long dream, you could be unprepared for the unbridled stability and inability to change things at will. But that would only be because of your own stupidity. But really I think you’d be more likely to be blown away with how DREAMLIKE the real world is, just like you are blown away by how LIFELIKE the dream world is when LDing. Still knowing it’s all “a real” and you can go back to your own dreamworld in a few hours for another 123 years.
Of course 
I didn’t mean it to sound like it was impossible. After all, it was because I believed in a book about a man’s account of a 1000 year dream while in a 3-year coma, that I even thought of pursuing the chance of living in a dream for just a week.
What I meant to say was that I, personally, am far too inexperienced to reach such a length of dreamtime and am skeptical about whether I may ever reach a year in dreamtime because heck, my DreamClock’s going to need some reworking to deal with that much dreamtime hahaha. But I’m guessing there must be someone somewhere who can do this a lot better than I, because I’m verrrry far from 1000 years dreamtime, or even 123 years dreamtime. And that means, relatively speaking, I’m an uber-newbie at hyper-extension of dreams
Edit: I confess though, I would enjoy having a 123-year-dreamtime LD. Hahaha, it’d be so much to write when I log back on, but I’d make sure that I wrote down every detail… hehe I’d probably have 123 Dream Diaries, each telling of each dream year
the only reason not many people can do it is because they think it’s hard. And it isn’t hard. Neither’s lucid dreaming, it’s just we all get it hardwired into our minds that lucid dreaming is hard. It isn’t.
Too bad schools don’t teach us about lucid dreaming I’m sure we’d all be better at it if there was an actual class for it–not to mention that more would be aware of lucid dreaming.
But alas 
we aren’t so fortunate and a lot of dreamers go without remembering their dreams (like one of my friends living around New York)
That would be cool
But i don’t know, most people not knowing about LDing makes it more awesome
Like a hidden secret of the Gods 
hmm, very interesting, Lucidrivet. Perhaps when I can finally lucid dream I shall practice this… 
One of the reasons for my interest in LDs is because I’d like to extend my lifetime by being conscious when I sleep. If I can have fun and learn something during LDs, that’s also good.
I’d actually like to spend a few years in my dreamworld. I find this topic of “time compression” fascinating.
But I just thought of something: There is a good reason why most people need to sleep. As far as I know, science hasn’t been able to fully explain it, but basically sleep allows the mind to reorganize. Will that effect be gone if I could stay lucid through my sleeping time? Does lucidity prevent true rest, and if so, is this worsened by lucid dreams that appear very long, but last only a few minutes?
I find LDs rather refreshing and restful 
noooo. When you’re sleeping, your always dreaming. I doubt lucid dreaming is any different. If this were true of lucid dreaming, I bet you would have read about it in the forums already.
Do you mean like a flower growing, make it grow faster?
or do you mean that everything you do, do it twice as fast and you can do everything in an LD?
or do you mean, watch the world go by in front of your eyes in seconds, and see how Earth blows up or something?
did everything I just said mean the samething?..
I’m confused 
SOAD PWNZ
This is a very interesting topic. It would be so cool to be able to control it like this. Having a bad day? Just take a week off, in your dream. You can fly to your favorite island and you don’t even have to pay for the flight, accommodations or meals.
Your dreams are a biproduct of your mind organizing itself because its going through imformation it may accidentaly put some of it together randomly hence making a dream. but as far as having a dream that seemingly lasts years it could be extrememly harmful when you forget that you went to sleep and believe the dream is real and you may go into shock and die upon awakening.
good theory or no
I don’t know, Surely if you forget you are dreaming you would wake up or lose lucidity?
I also wonder; If in a dream you can make your mind live at 8 seconds per real-time second, what the implications of this would be if you did this whilst conscious. Would it make the world around you seem to slow down, is it even possible?
Yeah, I got the same idea. Having the world around you slow down IRL. If you would be able to achieve this you could pwn anyone! 
I don’t know why so many people find the concept of living longer in the mind so odd. A lot more things are possible through the parameters of the mind than are possible in real life. Why shouldn’t the mind be able to alter time within itself? =0)
I wouldn’t say I find it that odd, I’d use the word fascinating.
I believe It’s possible in a dream. If it’s possible in a dream. Why can’t it be possible IRL. I wonder how It’d feel, In a dream the world speeds up with you but IRL…
Bleh, Your theory is flawed in that the basis for it is not at all clear. Why would you go into shock? If you have an answer I’d be glad to hear it.
I have read and heard about slowing down time in real life. THat is the perception of time. From what I heard it is possible by means of meditation. Also some drugs mess around with time perception. Adrenalin speeds up the brain and I’ve heard you can aparently at least for a short while esperience that time slows down.
Anyway. Even if you can speed up your brain to 8x. And experience everything at an eighth of the speed your body wouldn’t be able to move any faster. In the purpose of “pwning” anybody you could do it with your normal reflexes. I’ve been impressed with my own when I drop stuff and such.
Come to think of it, such a dream would be traumatizing if it were a normal dream. But in a lucid dream where you’re fully in control and know what awaits you when you wake up, I doubt it. And time perception is different in dreams anyway.
I agree that you probably couldn’t move faster, but if you’re perception is eight times faster than normal wouldn’t that enable you to think more carefully about your movements and optimize them?