Top Document: Dreams FAQ Pt.1/4: General Information, dream interpretation Previous Document: 1.4. What causes dreams, anyway? Next Document: 2. Dream interpretation and symbols +++++++++++++++++++++++++ See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge 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 remembrance 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. User Contributions:Top Document: Dreams FAQ Pt.1/4: General Information, dream interpretation Previous Document: 1.4. What causes dreams, anyway? Next Document: 2. Dream interpretation and symbols +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: dreams-faq-request@bigred.ka.sub.org (Dreams FAQ)
Last Update March 27 2014 @ 02:11 PM
|
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: