Are dream sequences occuring in real time?

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
I don't know, I've had dreams that took a course of several days or months of adventure.

I had a dream where I found this secret to imminent apocalypse. I had to travel back to US by foot to inform everyone. Then it took many courses of meeting different people, developing relationships, encountering side events, etc. It was like a fucking full-scale RPG.

Inside the dream, I was sleeping, waking up, traveling and living in it for many weeks. It was so immersive and vivid, when I woke up I was stunned for a good 10 minutes. I felt like I cheated my age and took me awhile to realize all of THAT was all in just one night's dream.

Explain that. I also have many others where the time lasts few days, a week or weeks.

Great post. The seemingly long time factor is easily explained by the fact that long time spans in the dream actually did not transpire, you were just seeing disjointed fragmented portions of the dream, but still in real or physical time. The fact you were dreaming in a dream is also a common thing I have experienced before, and even to the point of dreaming in a dream in a dream and waking up in the dream repeatedly as the next poster posted.

On a side note, I have also had dreams where they either continued the next time I fell asleep, or the dream was repeated, sometimes even a few days later. I think the most I had the same basic dream was 5 times in a row.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
I also had a dream where I KNEW I was in a dream but my sensories would feel all real. So I went around groping and sex0ring all these hot women and feeling really good while saying to them, "stfu, you're not real, you know you don't even exist. don't fool yourself."

LOL. I used to have hyperactive imagination as a teen.

Yea, you can consciously control the dreaming aspect. I find myself doing this constantly in my dreams. When I was younger, it seemed like my dreams were out of my conscious control, but now, not so much. If the dream gets too wacky or unusual, it usually tips me off this is obviously a dream, and then my consciousness kicks in and takes it over somehow. Frequently after this happens, I will wake up, since my conscious mind is then somehow forced to come back from the subconscious dead.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: aesthetics
Dreams themselves only last a few seconds.

At times this might be true, at other times, like when observing someone talking in their sleep, or even sleepwalking, this is clearly not the case. I have observed someone talk in their sleep off and on for more than 20 minutes before, including laughing out loud and movements similar to walking or waving their arms. The laughing out loud for a prolonged period of time like nearly a minute is what eventually woke them up, too.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Doctor Nyse

Originally posted by: jagec
Psychology isn't a real degree, medicine is.

:thumbsup:

Psychologist: M.D.
Physician: M.D.

....

....I also put much more merit in the physician tract, but they are the same fucking degree, you know? All psychologists go to the same Med School as physicians, all doctors in training go through the same psych rounds, it's all part of training.

a)I was playing the snooty "hard science" card--there is some truth to it, but I don't think that psychology quite belongs in the humanities.

b)I doubt that someone who has a

Originally posted by: JohnCU
PhD in psychology

has a MD in the same field as well. Psychology is typically an academic degree. Perhaps you were thinking of psychiatry?