My dreams seem to take more time to end now. Had week long dream.

About a week ago I started experimenting with lucid dreaming, and I kind of got the hang of it, but recently things have been getting out of control. I had a dream last night that lasted about a week or so. I've noticed myself having longer and longer dreams as time goes by. The scary thing is that it felt as if I was living each and every one of those days to its fullest. I went to sleep in the dream and woke up. I was convinced that it was all real. Everyone I knew or met....they're just gone. Idk what to do. I can't tell anyone else, but here I have a bit of anonymity.Just thinking about it is rather horrifying. I'm deathly afraid of having a 40 year long dream. I can't imagine dealing with reality after that. Has anyone else had long dreams like this, and how do you deal with it?

About a week ago I started experimenting with lucid dreaming, and I kind of got the hang of it, but recently things have been getting out of control. I had a dream last night that lasted about a week or so. I've noticed myself having longer and longer dreams as time goes by. The scary thing is that it felt as if I was living each and every one of those days to its fullest. I went to sleep in the dream and woke up. I was convinced that it was all real. Everyone I knew or met....they're just gone. Idk what to do. I can't tell anyone else, but here I have a bit of anonymity.Just thinking about it is rather horrifying. I'm deathly afraid of having a 40 year long dream. I can't imagine dealing with reality after that. Has anyone else had long dreams like this, and how do you deal with it?

painguy1

Are you doing anything to help your dreams become more lucid?

Sup painguy1.

Are you doing anything to help your dreams become more lucid?

Sup painguy1.

psymon100

Well when i 1st started I slept on my back rather than on my sides, and started counting as high as I could, but ever since this issue started I stopped trying to lucid dream, and now it's just getting worse. Also hi haha.

Hmmm.

That's interesting. So now you're not trying to have lucid dreams, but they just happen ... 'on automatic' ?

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Are you doing anything to help your dreams become more lucid?

Sup painguy1.

painguy1

Well when i 1st started I slept on my back rather than on my sides, and started counting as high as I could, but ever since this issue started I stopped trying to lucid dream, and now it's just getting worse. Also hi haha.

Those are some pretty weak attempts at becoming lucid. But that's pretty crazy you had a week long dream, not really much you can do about it besides trying to wake yourself up if you realize you are dreaming

I once had a ten year long dream where I was a miserable sack of failure who couldn't do anything right in life.

But I realized I wasn't dreaming.

I want to experience a long lucid dream in which I can manipulate the physics and social happenings of the dream's world. That would be awesome.

Wow, that sounds like a nightmare. Could you not potentially establish a way to bring yourself back and wake yourself up?chrisrooR

I'm not sure if I had those kind of dreams, but have had odd ones I didn't think were possible. Mainly like waking up from one dream into another, having two dreams at the same time and had a similiar dream that someone else had, hopefully not anymore similiar ones either. Though do wonder how it would be possible to make dreams feel longer. As for dreams vs reality I'm not sure on that since I'm not convinced that this world is the true reality.

ive had dreams like that before

usually im confused for the first couple hours after waking up, until i start recalling more of my dream where im able to tell it was just a dream and not real. usually its something weird that i know is fake or im with a family member who i normally wouldnt be with. or a couple times i had still been in school in my dream. though it took a while for taht to click when i was awake:P

i want to lucid dream so bad. i came close once. was thinking, "hey this would only happen in a dream, therefor i must be dreaming. but i dont want to wake up" then i just continued on with my dream.

woke up and was like, FFFUUUUU

pic is relevant:

How do I have a lucid dream?

Kill yourself inside your dream. That has to work.Capitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Kill yourself inside your dream. That has to work.BrunoBRS

Kill yourself inside your dream. That has to work.Capitan_Kid

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Kill yourself inside your dream. That has to work.Wolfetan

[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]Wow, that sounds like a nightmare. Could you not potentially establish a way to bring yourself back and wake yourself up?painguy1

All this lucid dream talk as scared me...

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

For people wondering, but seriously, thats just too much to have a lucid dream..

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[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]Wow, that sounds like a nightmare. Could you not potentially establish a way to bring yourself back and wake yourself up?chrisrooR

well that's the thing. I stopped lucid dreaming, and these long dreams are a result of that.

I want to experience a long lucid dream in which I can manipulate the physics and social happenings of the dream's world. That would be awesome.

BluRayHiDef

Kill yourself inside your dream. That has to work.Capitan_Kid

I used to have a phobia of dreaming when I was younger(yeah strange I know:P),I feared that I would never wake up again and I hated the feeling of being trapped myself.So after a while I perfected lucid dreaming to the "t" whenever I dreamt I'd either mess around and do crazy stuff or wake myself up by closing my eyes and concentrating.

If you're lucid you should be able to wake yourself if you try. Also, dream time does not actually work like it does in Inception, you can't actually have a week long (dream time) dream, you're really just skipping around and you have the illusion that something actually happened during those gaps.

Anyway, I recomend going to an actual lucid dreaming forum and they'll explain how it works. For a lot of people lucid dreaming is a full time hobby.

About a week ago I started experimenting with lucid dreaming, and I kind of got the hang of it, but recently things have been getting out of control. I had a dream last night that lasted about a week or so. I've noticed myself having longer and longer dreams as time goes by. The scary thing is that it felt as if I was living each and every one of those days to its fullest. I went to sleep in the dream and woke up. I was convinced that it was all real. This is a contradiction, if you think it's real then you're not actually lucid. Everyone has dreams they think are real while their happening. It's nothing special. Everyone I knew or met....they're just gone. Idk what to do. I can't tell anyone else, but here I have a bit of anonymity.Just thinking about it is rather horrifying. I'm deathly afraid of having a 40 year long dream. I can't imagine dealing with reality after that. Has anyone else had long dreams like this, and how do you deal with it?

painguy1

Watching Inception will cure it. .dramaybaz

watching Inception is the cause of the problem I think...

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About a week ago I started experimenting with lucid dreaming, and I kind of got the hang of it, but recently things have been getting out of control. I had a dream last night that lasted about a week or so. I've noticed myself having longer and longer dreams as time goes by. The scary thing is that it felt as if I was living each and every one of those days to its fullest. I went to sleep in the dream and woke up. I was convinced that it was all real. This is a contradiction, if you think it's real then you're not actually lucid. Everyone has dreams they think are real while their happening. It's nothing special. Everyone I knew or met....they're just gone. Idk what to do. I can't tell anyone else, but here I have a bit of anonymity.Just thinking about it is rather horrifying. I'm deathly afraid of having a 40 year long dream. I can't imagine dealing with reality after that. Has anyone else had long dreams like this, and how do you deal with it?

Storm_Marine

I wasn't fully lucid hence the "I kind of got the hang of it" part. I've stopped alltogether now, but the long dreams still occur. I just another week long dream. Same story. I picked up where I left last time.

I once had a ten year long dream where I was a miserable sack of failure who couldn't do anything right in life.

But I realized I wasn't dreaming.

MetalDogGear

well, if you do happen to realize you can't wake up..

make it worth your while.. if you know what i mean..;)
or you can learn or practice things while in them (if that works)?

Hopefully you're still not dreaming and I'm just a figment of your imagination...that would be kind of depressing.

One time I had a lucid dream where I was aware that my alarm clock is going to ring in any moment. The funny thing is that it rang in the dream, I turned it off, went to the bathroom, and while I was brushing my teeth I woke up for real. When I woke up in reality, I went to bathroom and had the stangestDéjà vu.:lol: