Dreams - are they experienced in real time?

Fourstar said:
I remember reading somewhere that what we experience as a dream may be an artifact of the brain coming online.

At the point of regaining consciousness there are all sorts of jumbled thoughts/bits of information our brain may have been processing during sleep. The part of our brain responsible for constructing a coherent narrative of our experiences takes all this data floating around and cobbles together what we remember as a dream. In reality the whole dream and its timeline was created at the point of waking.
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Not sure I agree with this, as when you lucidly dream you are able to experience the dream whilst in a state of sleep (and thus the dream is created at the point of sleeping, not at the point of waking). I've read plenty about whether it is in real time or not - a set of experiments carried out in the late 80s (I think) at Stamford suggested that they are, as asking people to move their eyes in a certain pattern whilst asleep (lucidly, of course . . .) correlated to the correct eye movements detected in the lab. Another experiment asked people to count to ten seconds in their dreams, making signals with their eyes; again there was good correlation between the length of the ten second guess in dreams and how one would guess ten seconds in waking life (i.e. not quite correct, but not far off).
 
After having a little nap, my wife told me of a dream she had where she walked into the bedroom to find me in bed on all fours, wearing a gimp mask with her sister having her way with me with a strap on but before she could open her mouth a shark came out from under the bed and ate me and her sister.

She said, "It's funny how things can happen in dreams that wouldn't happen in real life."

I said, "Yeah, ridiculous... a shark under the bed...."
 
My recurring dream starts with a blue sky (a bright, vibrant blue) before the camera rights itself to the horizon and I see that it is a wall and a not a sky. I walk towards this wall because I can see a dot on it (tiny, black, inconsequential) and I want to - wipe it? touch it? I don't know - get closer to it but even though the the wall seems to slowly get closer the dot itself does not. In fact, it seems to get even smaller and further away which doesn't make any sense so I begin to run (I see the dot leap up and down as my legs move my eyeline accordingly) but in that syrupy way dreams insist you do and eventually I hit the wall and the dot has gone and then my recurring dream starts with a blue sky (a bright, vibrant blue) before the camera rights itself to the horizon and I see that it is a wall and a not a sky. I walk towards this wall because I can see a dot on it (tiny, black, inconsequential) and I want to - wipe it? touch it? I don't know - get closer to it but even though the the wall seems to slowly get closer the dot itself does not. In fact, it seems to get even smaller and further away which doesn't make any sense so I begin to run (I see the dot leap up and down as my legs move my eyeline accordingly) but in that syrupy way dreams insist you do and eventually I hit the wall and the dot has gone and then my recurring dream starts with a blue sky (a bright, vibrant blue) before the camera rights itself to the horizon and I see that it is a wall and a not a sky. I walk towards this wall because I can see a dot on it (tiny, black, inconsequential) and I want to - wipe it? touch it? I don't know - get closer to it but even though the the wall seems to slowly get closer the dot itself does not. In fact, it seems to get even smaller and further away which doesn't make any sense so I begin to run (I see the dot leap up and down as my legs move my eyeline accordingly) but in that syrupy way dreams insist you do and eventually I hit the wall and the dot has gone and it takes me with it and then I wake up
 
I remember dream a where I would open a fridge door, and the light at the back of the fridge was actually the sun coming though my windows, waking me up.

Had another similar situation, I was some park (and the only people allowed in were adopted children for whatever reason), and I was riding a roller coaster, and when I was near to peak of the ride, someone shouted up at me to take a picture. It turns out is was someone in real life shouting upstairs to get me out of bed.
 
Dreams are generally at a much faster pace than real time. That's why you can seem to do so much in a dream when you might have only been asleep for 10 minutes.
 
Well it depends on your view, the thought is that DMT which is secreted by your pineal gland causes your dreams, if you are lucid dreaming you could actually be having an outer body experience, other thoughts are that when you dream you are actually experiencing an alternate reality based on the thought that if the universe is infinite then every possibility is possible.
 
I used to believe that the 3rd last thing I thought about before going to sleep, that's what I would dream about.
 
I have load's of odd dreams that I don't think anything about at the time,
but then later even year's later it happens in RL and I remember 'oh I dreamed about this ages ago' and can change the outcome by altering what I do.

very strange, but it happens once every 3-4months.
 
as ive got older the frequency and vividness of remembered dreams have diminished...

i think the the act of regularly checking your self and your control in your waking state increases likely hood that this will form part of your dream, and the chances that you can inject what seems like will into the dream state.
 
Inception - I was arguing with a girl that I was dreaming and I said if I jump out the window I'll wake up, she said, no you'll die. I said "Your waiting for a train....you can't finish the sentence can you? you can't because you're me and I can't remember the rest!" then I woke up. In hindsight maybe she hadn't seen the film :)

I have one recurring dream when I'm in a huge house or building and certain areas are hard to get to or not used very often. Part of this area has a room or door and the closer I get the more frightened I am and it's hard not to wake up. Recently I've been able to actually stay asleep and run into the room. Last time it happened I managed to get inside the room still asleep and was bit disappointed it was empty. :)
 
Nope, they are outside of time and space that we are limited to in the physical. This is why we have trouble recalling every single detail as well ;)

Clarkson said:
Dreams are generally at a much faster pace than real time. That's why you can seem to do so much in a dream when you might have only been asleep for 10 minutes.
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Yep it seems that way but doesn't mean it's true, really there is no time or pace and in dreams. I like to think of life as a dream as well we think we are experiencing a long life, then at the end of it we wake up and hardly any time has passed ;)
 
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EddScott said:
I have one recurring dream when I'm in a huge house or building and certain areas are hard to get to or not used very often. Part of this area has a room or door and the closer I get the more frightened I am and it's hard not to wake up. Recently I've been able to actually stay asleep and run into the room. Last time it happened I managed to get inside the room still asleep and was bit disappointed it was empty. :)
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Had a quick look at dream meanings. Cant get full article because I'm at work but...

"To dream that you are in an empty white room, indicates a fresh start."

"The colors, the size of the room or the mood you were surrounded by in dream could explain you much more about exact meaning of this dream."

"You may be feeling empty, lonely or drained."

I dream't I went to drive my car drunk last night, quick search reveals.

"To dream that you are driving drunk indicates that your life is out of control."

Yeah right.
 
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