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I understand this to be a fairly common thing among my friends, but i figure we can discuss it out of curiosity. This happens to me on only rare occasions, as it's rare that I even remember my dreams at all, but on the occasion that it does happen, I find it pretty interesting.
Have you ever gone to sleep and had a dream where you could swear you felt the passing of time as if you were awake? That's rather normal, however when it was merely an illusion, it's also common to wake up and realize time was flowing fast, your actions in the dream couldn't have taken that long or been that slow. But, you ever have a dream that was actually very realistic in your sense of time, but you seemed to have had your dream last longer than the amount of hours you slept? In the event a dream is shorter, it's easy to rub it off as forgetting something, or just losing grasp on time. But, on the rare occasion I've had a dream where it seems to last longer, I try my best ti sit and think about it before I do anything to help me remember it. All in all I've had some surprisingly long dreams.
I remember one from a few years ago, though the years have made the memory very spotty, but the main thing i remember were my thoughts the next day. It felt as though the dream itself span over 36 hours, a whole day and a half. The thing that made it curious was that when I recalled the events, it would have been impossible for it all to have really happened within the 7-9 hour time frame of my sleeping, as it was a rather vivid dream.
Ever have this happen to you? What would be your theory as to why this happens once in a while? I, for one, assume it to simply be due to our brains slow in activity, causing its own perception of time to be altered, and it really isn't going at a real-time speed, but when you wake up and tr to remember it, your brain tries to make sense of it all as well, and as a result, it makes the actions fit into what feels like real time, effectively making it seriously feel like you had a dream longer than your time sleeping. Thoughts?
Have you ever gone to sleep and had a dream where you could swear you felt the passing of time as if you were awake? That's rather normal, however when it was merely an illusion, it's also common to wake up and realize time was flowing fast, your actions in the dream couldn't have taken that long or been that slow. But, you ever have a dream that was actually very realistic in your sense of time, but you seemed to have had your dream last longer than the amount of hours you slept? In the event a dream is shorter, it's easy to rub it off as forgetting something, or just losing grasp on time. But, on the rare occasion I've had a dream where it seems to last longer, I try my best ti sit and think about it before I do anything to help me remember it. All in all I've had some surprisingly long dreams.
I remember one from a few years ago, though the years have made the memory very spotty, but the main thing i remember were my thoughts the next day. It felt as though the dream itself span over 36 hours, a whole day and a half. The thing that made it curious was that when I recalled the events, it would have been impossible for it all to have really happened within the 7-9 hour time frame of my sleeping, as it was a rather vivid dream.
Ever have this happen to you? What would be your theory as to why this happens once in a while? I, for one, assume it to simply be due to our brains slow in activity, causing its own perception of time to be altered, and it really isn't going at a real-time speed, but when you wake up and tr to remember it, your brain tries to make sense of it all as well, and as a result, it makes the actions fit into what feels like real time, effectively making it seriously feel like you had a dream longer than your time sleeping. Thoughts?