Is it true that dreams that can seem like they are several days long actually only last 2-3 seconds?
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In a short answer, yes, they last a much shorter time than they seem while we are asleep.
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Dreams do seem like they are several days long, but they are not. They aren't 2-3 seconds either. They are much longer. Here's how long: A. REM sleep periods, and therefore dreams, last typically in the range of 5 to 45 minutes (cf. section 6). Often, the subjective time spent in a dream is much longer. One possible explanation for this time-stretch effect is that dreams are combined from pieces (see preceding paragraph) that have their own different setting in time. You first dream of something that occurred a year ago, then - following - of something that occurred just recently, mix them up a bit and are left with the rememberance of a dream that lasted a year. But experiments suggest that dreamed actions run in "real time" - what you do in your dream takes exactly this time to dream. With external influences like the radio running in the morning, you have both the real time in which you hear something and - sometimes - the feeling that it lasted considerably longer. Anyway, time is one of the perceptions that are heavily distorted in dreams. http://www.psywww.com/asc/dreamfaq/node8.html
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yes, i even have MY own scale... 1minute in a dream =1 hour in real life, 1second in a dream=1minute in real life, and so oh...
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