XPost: alt.dreams   
   From: memo@mcn.org   
      
   Sairiliyan Siyaska wrote:   
      
   > When we recall dream next morning, always we recall just few scenes of   
   > entire dream.   
   > But when we recall events happened in last 7-8 hours of real life, same   
   > thing happens.   
   > I am trying to recall schedule of last 12 hours since morning but I can   
   > recall just few scenes.   
   > But I lived every moment of last 12 hours.   
   > It is possible that I live every moment in my dream for 7-8 hours.   
      
       Come at the problem from the other direction.   
       It takes only five or ten minutes to read a ten-page story about a   
   character's afternoon or a few days or weeks in his life. A science-fiction   
   story may span millions of years and take only a few pages. Likewise, a   
   dream of the passage of hours or days or a million years may take only   
   minutes and still be a convincing story of living through all that time.   
   The feeling of long duration is only another element of the dream. Or   
   story. Whereas in real life duration is measurable.   
       The experience of real-life waking memory you describe is normal; it   
   shows how spotty memory really is, and how poor an intuitive judge of its   
   own accuracy and of objective truth an unreasoning mind is.   
       A so-called lucid dream is just a /dream/ of being awake to the fact   
   that you're dreaming. A brain awake is not asleep, which is why we have   
   different words for the two conditions.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)