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- From: phuyg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr P V Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Re: time flow
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:32:37 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- In article <1993Jan22.152645.25572@mlb.semi.harris.com> bwm@mongoose.ess.harris.com (Bruce McIntosh) writes:
- >Does anyone have observations on how the flow of time in dreams compares to
- >real time? It would seem from my own experience that quite a bit can happen
- >in a dream that is not very long in realtime. Does lucidity have any impact
- >on this? Just curios. Thankyou.
- >
-
- I've heard that dreams only last a couple of minutes, and that the longest
- duration of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep was only about 10 minutes
- and i've had personal experience of this one moring, when, being particularly
- lazy, i stayed in bed till 3pm when i wasn't really tired at all.. i kept
- drifting off into sleep to experience a dream that seemed to me to last
- at least an hour, and waking up to find only a few minutes had passed.
- At first i thought my clock was buggered, but checked it to my watch
- and it was fine.. was quite bizarre but then i found the idea of having
- an hours experience in 3 minutes quite attractice and drifted off to have
- many more dreams till i finally got out of bed to do something in real life ;)
-
- Paul V. Smith (~Beebop)
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