Many times when I wake up at let's say at 7.00AM then I do fall asleep, when I do fall asleep I have a long dream, like a very long one, when my dream ends and I wake up again and the time is only 7:05AM, that's impossiple how could that happen?
2006-10-19 15:50:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
For my question I meant "Short period of time"
2006-10-19 15:51:19 · update #1
dreams seem long, but they are not long. dreams don't have anything to do with actual time. they just don't follow that concept, so that is how you can have a dream that seems so long, yet it was only a few minutes of realistic time. throughout the night you may have hundreds or thousands of dreams. many of which may seem to be hours long, and others many seem to be a few minutes. they aren't real, so they don't have a real time line & sequence of events.
2006-10-19 16:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by christy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Short Time Period
2016-11-07 07:57:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're being too technical about this. Yes, you do dream in "real time", so as you say if your dream lasts an hour, you were dreaming for an hour. However, when you're sleeping, then you loose sense of actual time, thus your dream can seem longer or shorter than it actually was. Remember that REM cycles are just a guide built on a bell curve. The majority of the population follows this pattern, but others do not. Also other things effect your dreams such as how tired you are, amout and level of stress you had during the day etc. All dreams are very detailed, but not many pay attention to the details; just those of us aware enough that the details are important and have meaning.
2016-03-18 22:03:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thought process can change the experience of passage of time... Some great thinker like Russel had cited an example, sitting beside a pretty girl, the time passes too quickly, whereas if undergoing a torture, each moment seems like years !
In experience, it is only through such dreams, and a look at the clock soon after waking, that a person gets almost a simultaneous personal experience of both the states, to really get the 'feel' of what it means... !
Such close observation of significant aspects of perception at different levels/different states of mind actually helps a person to evolve deeper into different levels of consciousness, newer dimensions of life ! Experience teaches far better than any sermon, on spiritual matters !
2006-10-19 19:01:55 · answer #4 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think of your brain as a computer, and your short-term and long-term memory are 2 partitions of your C Drive. When you sleep, your brain runs "defrag"; basically it takes all these images, memories, experiences, etc. and shuffles them around and puts them where they belong. Now a scientist could put that into words which might make it sound cooler, but that's basically what is happening. As for you having dreams after you have woken up and fell back asleep, that is normal because once you physically wake up it actually takes your brain another 2-4 hours to fully wake up or "reboot" so when you wake up and then quickly go back to sleep its almost like turning your computer on and then quickly pulling the plug before it boots up. The concept of time...isn't really there yet.
2006-10-19 16:17:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you were a speed reader, you could read many pages of a book in 5 minutes. Just think of everything that you visualize in those pages.
Your mind can do it in just a few seconds. It supplies visions of things you have seen and things you want to see as it plays out thoughts that have not come to the surface of your consciousness.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
2006-10-19 16:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well a better question would be What is a dream? Doctors still have not found out what causes us to dream. But the answer to your question would probably be.. it happens because the human mind is a very powerful utility.
2006-10-19 15:54:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Time is elapsed in dreams what may seem to be several minutes or even hours of dreaming, is closer to a few seconds of dreaming. You can have hundreds or even thousands of dreams in a solitary second whether or not you remember them is the problem.
2006-10-19 16:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by tattoomeats 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Our minds are capable of thinking at a great speed. The time which you felt you've spent on that dream differs with the actual time.
2006-10-19 19:21:06 · answer #9 · answered by Vie 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Think of a movie. The entire story told in a couple of hours, although to read the book would take you a day and half.
The mind can absorb data faster than the feed rate of a typical projector.
2006-10-19 16:14:46 · answer #10 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋