From: nick.argall@aplaceof.removedotcom.info.com   
      
   "Graham Jones"  wrote in message   
   news:zH+VNqAQjgkBFw5d@visiv.co.uk...   
      
   > The research Nick was referring to was done in laboratories, with lucid   
   > dreamers who are able to signal via eye movements to the outside world   
   > while dreaming, and comparing their perceived time within the dream to   
   > clock time over short periods (eg 10 seconds). The 1:1 figure is not   
   > accurate, not least because people's perception of time is not very good   
   > in the normal waking state (how many seconds have passed since you   
   > started reading this message?). But the results do seem fairly clear   
   > that there is no obvious time-distortion going on in lucid dreams -   
   > unlike for example with people who have taken cannabis.   
      
   My recollection is that the error while awake was identical to the error   
   while dreaming.  Note that I used 'perceived time' as the measure for 1:1,   
   not 'time' :)   
      
      
      
   Nick   
      
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