My LD’s seem to go on for loooong periods of time. Maybe like an hour (in my mind at least. You can dream at different speeds), with a half hour on the end consisting of me forgetting that I’m LDing.
Jeez, give him a break. By looking at his other posts, you can see that English is most likely not his first language. If it is, though, then I agree.
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Longest time has been an hour, although like another poster said, time in an LD is subjective. Can’t say if it was an hour in RL or just seemed that way.
The longest LD I’ve ever had was about an hour… Yeah… That stunk… I’m hoping tonight I’ll have a longer one, but most likely not since I haven’t even LDed in nearly a year…
Except some very special cases, like Third Eye Open Wide’s dream, the subjective time should not be inaccurate too much.
In a laboratory experiment, the dreamer Florence Ghibellini estimated that her dream had a duration of 20 minutes. Effective measurement : 10 minutes.
This example is taken from her dream book.
It’s pretty interesting that some lucid dreamers even claim that they have experienced lucid dreams of a year long. Of course, as many of you already pointed out, it is a matter of subjectivity.
Research shows that this “time-bending” actually takes place in the process of awakening. This is not something that you can compare with a question like “is 30 minutes al long time?” as if it were totally subjective. It is more objective than you might think. The ‘feeling’ of time is sometimes neurologically manipulated somehow in waking up. So it really feels like you have been dreaming for a year long, although it took only 10 minutes of REM sleep.
Mine always seem to be around 20 minutes, but when I wake up I realize I only did a few things and it seems like it couldn’t have been that long… It’s strange.
You just have to remember to not get too excited. The minute you feel your heart pumping wildly just try your best to clear your mind (keeping the awareness by possibly looking around at people/stuff), and breath deeply (…in your mind). Then, when you’re ready to think about dreaming again, make sure you’re always focused on doing something, and make sure you’re only doing things that you can partake in immediately. So if one of your goals was to jump off a high building, and you’re standing on the ground away from a building, it might be better for your concentration to do something that you wanted to do on the ground (or try flying up there