From: drgynfly@txt-omitted.mv.com
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:40:50 UTC, Graham Jones wrote:
| In article <419017b6$0$30332$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Nick Argall
| writes
| >
|
| >> That isn't time compression. It's a dream that covers a week of events.
| >You
| >> remember a week, but do you recall what you had for breakfast on the third
| >> day of that dream? In other words, there is a vast difference between the
| >> memory of a week, and the week itself. Therefore, it is in no way
| >> supernatural to have a dream that seems to span a significant amount of
| >> time. Such a dream doesn't even take 8 hours to have; 30 minutes is
| >> sufficient.
| >
| >That conflicts with the studies done by Susan Blackmore that show perceived
| >dream-time normally has a 1:1 relationship with perceived awake-time.
| >
|
| I don't there is a real conflict here. I've never had a dream which
| seemed to last a week, but I do remember a vivid, lucid dream in which I
| climbed a familiar mountain, deliberately choosing to walk not fly. This
| would have taken three hours in reality, and which seemed to take
| roughly that long in the dream. But what I could actually remember when
| awake was not three hours of experience, but more like edited highlights
| of climbing a mountain. More like three minutes. Within the edited
| highlights, I think time was very likely about 1:1, but there were big
| gaps. Concertina'd time?
|
I can sometimes pretty heavily; one type of experience that's happened
several times so far is that I'll be woken during rem sleep, but be tired
enough that I'm still partially within the dream. The images continue for
a good 20 to 30 seconds, but the action looks like it's taken 1 frame per
3/4 second (and progessively more translucent) with the motion stripped
out but sort-of implied like in the comic strips of some artists.
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