NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/dreams/4872

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From: [e-mail] (Philip Stephens)
Subject: Re: time flow
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:53:40 GMT
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Michael Turner writes:

>My vague recollection from LaBerge's books is that dream-time and real-time
>are pretty well correlated.  But my personal *experience* is that those
>nodding- off-in-class dreams can be pretty epic compared to the amount of
>time I was asleep.  I don't know if anyone has studied this often-noted
>discrepancy.

  It's been a long time since I've read LaBerge, but wasn't their
dream-time experiments based upon the passage of time experienced in
*lucid* dreams?
  I guess since normal dreams are not so easily remembered, it may be that
they only seem longer than they are.  But I've often woken up from a short
nap with the memory of a dream that seemed to have gone on for ages.
  Actually, as an aside, psychological time can often seem to be different
to real time.  You know the experience: time goes faster when you're
reading than when you're sitting quietly doing nothing.  Perhaps dreams are
the same.

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