Are dream sequences occuring in real time?

[SSSnail]

As in if you're dreaming of doing something, the time passed by for doing that action would be the same as if you're doing it when awake?

This seems to be the case for me, sometimes when you're dreaming and then you wake up, your actions would just be a continuation of your dreams.

Edit: edited for the grammar nazi.

 

[nakedfrog]

Nope, dreams occur much more quickly.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Nope, dreams occur much more quickly.

Yeah think of how long your average dream actually lasts... Like what... 15 minutes... seems like they can last a life time sometimes.

 

[OdiN]

Are learning the englishes do now?

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Nope, dreams occur much more quickly.

Yeah think of how long your average dream actually lasts... Like what... 15 minutes... seems like they can last a life time sometimes.

I think it's just merely how time is perceived. More things happen in your dreams than the time would normally permit, but to you, they feel like they are happening in the same amount of time as they would when awake. Remember, time is only a real event to your mind when you are awake experiencing it. Dreaming completes removes the concept of time. Hell, look to how some drugs completely change the mind's perception of time. (shrooms - time is super long)

Although, I have also had dreams that felt like not much happened due to it only being a short amount of time. Brief conversations with people, feeling like I'm experiencing a very normal event in my home or at a friends house, etc.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: SirStev0

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Nope, dreams occur much more quickly.

Yeah think of how long your average dream actually lasts... Like what... 15 minutes... seems like they can last a life time sometimes.

I think it's just merely how time is perceived. More things happen in your dreams than the time would normally permit, but to you, they feel like they are happening in the same amount of time as they would when awake. Remember, time is only a real event to your mind when you are awake experiencing it. Dreaming completes removes the concept of time. Hell, look to how some drugs completely change the mind's perception of time. (shrooms - time is super long)

Although, I have also had dreams that felt like not much happened due to it only being a short amount of time. Brief conversations with people, feeling like I'm experiencing a very normal event in my home or at a friends house, etc.

So, what you're saying is that time is an illusion?

How about lunchtime?

 

[alexvorn2]

who knows, I think that this is impossible to find.

 

[JohnCU]

In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

What's always confused me is this. How do actual events (phone call, etc) get incorporated into your dream in real time considering how fast dreams run? Anyone have an explanation for this?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Are learning the englishes do now?

Thanks, I'll jot this down for my English lesson of the day. Hopefully it'll help me earn more money one of these days.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

well she had a PhD in psychology and i remember the book saying the same thing, too. i'm sure there are conflicting theories.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

well she had a PhD in psychology and i remember the book saying the same thing, too. i'm sure there are conflicting theories.

Yeah, it was a ways back, but I remember reading one of the conflicting theories

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

Indeed. This is a valuable source of information. Slap that bitch up on wikipedia.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

Indeed. This is a valuable source of information. Slap that bitch up on wikipedia.

okay well he asked and i posted what i had heard previously about dreaming and since i heard it in a class i assumed that there was some reasonable data to back it up.

 

[TuxDave]

I also heard it was a 1:1 ratio. However you may be skipping a ton of stuff in your dream to make it feel like your dream is going faster.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I've had fairly detailed dreams that occurred in the span of just a couple minutes but which seemed to last at least 10-20 minutes when I was dreaming. The only time I can remember my dreams is when I'm taking a nap or something, though.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

well she had a PhD in psychology and i remember the book saying the same thing, too. i'm sure there are conflicting theories.

That's called appealing to authority, and is a logical fallacy

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

That's definitive proof right there.

well she had a PhD in psychology and i remember the book saying the same thing, too. i'm sure there are conflicting theories.

That's called appealing to authority, and is a logical fallacy

the next time i go to the doctor and he tells me i've got a sinus infection i'm gonna tell him he's appealing to authority.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I also heard it was a 1:1 ratio. However you may be skipping a ton of stuff in your dream to make it feel like your dream is going faster.

Right, I'm not saying that your thoughts won't transcend time, just that when the action occurs, such as when you're doing something, that action would take as much time as when you're awake. Of course you can dream about a vacation for instance, and skip from the beach to the hotel room in a second, but the time spent with the hottie in bed would probably be the same as when you're a wake (which is about a few minutes :laugh.

 

[DrPizza]

here
real time = dream time; we just insert things into our dreams that make it seem that they're a lot longer.

 

[BUTCH1]

I fell asleep while listening to the radio and dreamt I was listening to a Beatle song, then awoke 1/2 way through the song and finished hearing it, it was really strange, like a deja-vu in progress..

 

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
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real time = dream time; we just insert things into our dreams that make it seem that they're a lot longer.

It seems like all that proves is that how long you feel like it is in a dream can actually be much longer than the time that passes in real life.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
In psych 201 the teacher said 1 minute in a dream is 1 minute in real life so yeah they do occur in real time

Agree.

Because your mind can't process dreams any faster or slower than you could normally think if awake. The difference you notice is the dream just ends up more disjointed generally, and jumps around out of sequence or context a lot, so it might appear time is passing faster or slower in the dream, but it's not.

And I have found my dreams during the day are a lot different than my night time dreaming. During the day, they are more realistic but at night, I get night terrors and wake up screaming a lot, thinking stuff is attacking me when I wake up. I have a theory on why this is, but it's not something I wish to discuss on a public message board. But I think I am one of the few who may have finally realized what dreams really are. And they are not necessarily fantasies of your own personal creation or imagination. But I have said too much already.

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Edgar Allan Poe

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Dreams occur in real time, but there's no dead time... Example - Last night - I was in San Jose and took a trip to New York. I didn't dream about the six hour flight. It was great.