Can a long dream last a split second?

Of course they can last a long time in a split second... I won't go into why I think it happens, but it does.

I can spend weeks in a dream in my morning snoozes between the alarm going off... weeks in under 9 minutes... however long they actually last, I don't know.

I quite enjoy my morning snoozes and have a lot of fun in dream states :D
 
Weeks in a dream:eek: Sure you ain't taking something? :p

Yeah I find the intense ones are after you wake up then fall asleep again.
 
I often have very vivid random dreams. Some of them a really bizarre. They got really bad when I was pregnant with my kids, although from what I've read that is a pretty common thing to happen.
 
Surely the brain has no perception of time, so yeah you could dream all you want in any time frame.

I never remember my dreams, I know it says something about me but no idea what it is, but i frequently wake up having a falling sensation and just kind of jerk around till i realize I'm in bed and fall straight back to sleep.
 
Did a bit on dream analysis in psychology for a levels. Can't remember much these days but dreams are certainly not limited to 'real time' so you can do so much in your dreams in so little time.
 
I once had a dream that I was working in an office, in a tower block, and the place was being over-run by zombies. Suddenly, Kylie Minogue's the Locomotion came over the tannoy.

I woke up, in my bed in my old student house. The locomotion was still playing! Disoriented, confused and bleary eyed, I wandered downstairs (the living room was directly under my bedroom) to find my housemate watching his Kylie video - at about 8am on a Saturday morning (this was ridiculously early by my standards as a student).
 
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Weeks in a dream:eek: Sure you ain't taking something? :p

Yeah I find the intense ones are after you wake up then fall asleep again.
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Haven't for a while... but those experiences do stick with you ;)

Dreams are especially epic/creative for a good few weeks after taking something :D

I usually have quite a few dreams in a night too, especially emphasized if able to snooze in the morning. Quite often they all get a bit mingled together in my mind, so it's not always easy to pick it apart.

I still remember one of the dreams from last night quite vividly... most probably because it ended in a really strange way... it was one that easily lasted a full day, maybe longer...

I'd been playing a game of sorts with a small group, closest comparison was to a FPS/RTS/RPG game... we were in the game, rather than sitting with a controller... like very good VR.

Towards the end we were heading for the last token or whatever it was... a feather that had some power.

As I discovered it, I noticed one of the competing team members heading straight for it - this character was Emperor Palpatine (the only reference to star wars, i wasn't dreaming about playing battlefront).

He managed to beat me to the feather by a hairs breadth and "used" the feather.

As soon as he did, my memory, everything that was me got wiped clean and I became a completely blank slate... no thoughts, nothing.

At this moment, Palpatine morphed into a humanoid gekko with a very large head, a teeny tiny neck and T-Rex like arms.

It then promptly decided to start sucking on the back of my head... almost like it was trying to suck out my brains but there was no hole to do so.

Cue me waking up with a WTF look on my face.
 
I like to think our brains are overclocking while dreaming.

If Inception is anything to go by, our dreams are 5x the speed of real life. Is it 4 layers deep they go? If so, that's 625x faster at the bottom layer.

I think that's conservative for some dreams I've had. I've only had 1 single dream like Picard had in that episode of TNG where he lived out a full life with a family. I had one where, upon waking I had to focus extremely hard to understand my real life. It took me a good couple of minutes to get back on track and that focussing erased a lot of what I had just dreamt. I no longer remember the fine detail like I did when I first woke up, but I do recall the shock of no longer being in that dream world and thedire need to make sense of real life
 
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My dreams are messed up, but I can sometimes control them. I have a lot of flying dreams where I am flapping my arms and I can fly, or i could be walking down a road and all of a sudden the road would be no more and I would shudder awake or go in to something else

I tried to get into lucid dreaming years ago, its making yourself realise your in a dream, if you get the ball rolling and practise often it can have some effect
 
Well Captain Picard lived 30 perceived years in something like 25 mins so I'd have to say yes it's possible.
 
Sometimes when I'm really tired but not asleep I've had an awesome dream (long too) and only a minute or two has past

I for one welcome the matrix style life
Have a great long life in a paradise. I sure wouldn't take the 'out' pill
If someone offered me a great 'life' in a dream and I didn't know I was in I'd take it in a heartbeat
 
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