Dreams - are they experienced in real time?

Jinxter said:
Is this where you're fully conscious of the dream you're in? I used to be able to do this and once had a dream where I woke into another dream. Weird stuff.
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Not conscious, but more self-aware and can control your actions and even consequences.

You are basically superman/God.
 
Wasnt there a study done that said a dream, even if it seems to last for hours, is only A few seconds long in the real world? I'm sure i heard it somewhere.

I'd love to be able to do that lucid dream stuff, but then it can be dangerous, couple of times i've had nightmares where i've been stabbed in the back and i've woken to excruciating real pain in my back from cramping.
 
Definitely not
If I am really tired, and my girlfriend is boring me, I will drift off mid conversation for a second or two and dream a whole conversation which never actually happened
It is incredibly confusing for both of us...

adolf hamster said:
...couple of times i've had nightmares where i've been stabbed in the back and i've woken to excruciating real pain in my back from cramping.
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This used to happen to me regularly as a kid. Only thing which solved it was sleeping on my back.
 
adolf hamster said:
Wasnt there a study done that said a dream, even if it seems to last for hours, is only A few seconds long in the real world? I'm sure i heard it somewhere.

I'd love to be able to do that lucid dream stuff, but then it can be dangerous, couple of times i've had nightmares where i've been stabbed in the back and i've woken to excruciating real pain in my back from cramping.
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If you can lucid dreams, you would be aware that it is a nightmare, STOP it right there.

Then literally flip it round to something good.

I first realise i could do it at around 8 years old, don't really have nightmares anymore!
 
Raymond Lin said:
Not conscious, but more self-aware and can control your actions and even consequences.

You are basically superman/God.
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I used to have these dreams quite a lot. Mine always started off as uncontrollable scenes, like being chased or something along those lines but then it would reach a point where I would decide to create something to get away and that's how the story would go, I would "feel" like I am 100% in control of what is happening and decide what I would do next. Weird stuff, especially when you suddenly wake up and think that the dream will carry on.

The only other dreams I have occasionally are when my alarm goes off "in real life" I turn it off and then dream I have gotten up, showered, eaten breakfast, had my coffee, got dressed and just when I am about to walk out my front door..... I wake up and realise I have 10 minutes to get ready for work... ridiculous lol!

oh and to actually give my opinion on the OP, I don't think they are. I have had dreams in the past that seem to last hours, but I have just fallen asleep on the sofa for 15 mins haha
 
obviously probably different for all, but in my dreams I often have very vivid long complex dreams. But the time dilation here in the real world. I have no idea. However, the other day i had a wee snooze. Constantly fading in and out of sleep. I thought i was about an hour, turns out it was around 10-15 mins. but my dreams felt as though i had been under for a long time
 
There's some interesting facts and experiences coming out here so thank you all. I'm off to dream now having eaten some cheese as part of my tea. Good night to you all.
 
Raymond Lin said:
If you can lucid dreams, you would be aware that it is a nightmare, STOP it right there.
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Its realising its not a dream is the problem, weirdly for some reason unconcious me can't make the link that being stabbed multiple times and not dying means its probably not real.

Its a possibility the stabbing is simply the brain realising theres real pain (the back cramps) and seriously failing at interpreting what it means. Doesnt happen often.

The only time i ever used to be able to 'control' a dream i could always fly by flapping my arms really quickly, but for some reason i always seemed to have a height limit of about 10m that i couldnt go higher than no matter how hard i tried or realised it was a dream.
 
Raymond Lin said:
If you can lucid dreams, you would be aware that it is a nightmare, STOP it right there.

Then literally flip it round to something good.

I first realise i could do it at around 8 years old, don't really have nightmares anymore!
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I thought Lucid dreams were uncontrollable?

Example: I once had a dream where I was sleeping on my back and "my dream" was someone towering over my bed with a knife....I couldn't do a thing, I couldn't move, I couldn't scream, I couldn't wake myself up even though I knew it was a dream. It was only when the knife went down, that's when I woke up, lying on my side but woke up gasping for air!
 
C35799Gamble said:
I thought Lucid dreams were uncontrollable?

Example: I once had a dream where I was sleeping on my back and "my dream" was someone towering over my bed with a knife....I couldn't do a thing, I couldn't move, I couldn't scream, I couldn't wake myself up even though I knew it was a dream. It was only when the knife went down, that's when I woke up, lying on my side but woke up gasping for air!
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Not when I do it...:D
 
What?! How can anyone not have seen it? I don't really rate it as a movie but I thought everyone would have been forced into seeing it.
 
Mynight said:
What?! How can anyone not have seen it? I don't really rate it as a movie but I thought everyone would have been forced into seeing it.
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nope lol I live alone and watch movies as and when its recommended. lol I have never seen this but will make a point of watching it over the weekend
 
Jinxter said:
What are peoples thoughts on dreams and sleeping. When we recall vivid dreams and their events, do they happen in real time while dreaming and do our recollections accurately reflect the actual timeline? Has anyone ever been woken at a point whilst dreaming where a crucial conclusion was to be discovered. Or were we destined to awake at that point anyway and the dream itself was an imagination of our mind relayed backward from our point of being fully conscious. Anyone have any thoughts and opinions on this?
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You know whats weird is your brain alone has the processioning power concoct a believable "reality" in dreams, so who is to say our actual reality isn't a similar concoction? A simulation.
 
My worst dream... I went to bed once and immediately started dreaming that I was in a pub with my mates. I told them be right back, I need the toilet. So I went and queued up, and eventually got in... Unbuttoned my jeans, and as soon as I started, I instantly woke up to discover that I had in fact been peeing all over my bed.
 
Once I dreamt I had a dream, woke up, got the school bus (was still at secondary school) got to the school, everything normal and accurate... got into the assembly hall, and the headteacher was a llama. Then I thought "something's not right here..." and woke up.

Then had to do it all over again... except the llama.
 
Dreams are essentially about whatever occupies our conscious mind during the waking hours. But when we go to sleep the unconscious mind takes over and our thoughts are in symbolic, subconscious forms.

Aside from prophetic types, dreams are essentially problem solving exercises about concerns we have.
 
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