Do dreams happen in real time?
Students and colleagues have often asked and discussed with me about the concept “do dreams happen in real time?” and honestly, it’s something I’d love to understand more. However, with that said, it seems near impossible based on the large, vivid depth of the dreams some of us have. Simply examining them the following morning, some 2 hour naps have emerged for me when I’ve woken up as appearing to have gone on for days in length. Hordes of events, emotional plot lines and such, surreal meetings, characters, sexual encounters. To have this happen on a normal second by second basis as with the real world seems impossible.
How can dreams happen in real time if the length always seems to vary? This is one of the many areas of the dream world that I’ve been trying to quantify in my work, and is something I’m striving to explain.
Dreams are real and do happen in real time, unlike what inception suggests