[hHwJ229h]

I am very new to this whole thing and dont know much about it but i read somewhere breifly that someone had an OBE that lasted for 2 hours but it felt like 100 years, does anyone know anything more about this.
Im really interested in the idea of being able to slow down time like this, it seems like a great way to extend your life without really extending it.

[KhJOHbTM]

Not quite sure what ya mean. I would strain to stay out, but I got headaches from doing that.

[hHwJ229h]

I found a quote from a lucid dream FAQ which explains what i mean,

Robert Monroe even reported experiencing 100 years in a 2 hours OOBE THis is the sort of OBE that i would like to achieve many times as it would feel like i had lived a lot more years than i actually have because it really only takes up 2 hours of my life.
Does anyone have any more information on how have OBEs as long as this

[amagmasia]

Perhaps this will help....


How can I stop real time in my Lucid Dreams?

Stopping real time in your Lucid Dreams means making the Lucid Dream last far more than the time passed by in the physical world. Like having a dream that last a few minutes in real time, while you might experience it as a few days in the dream. By doing this can you enjoy the dream scape a lot more, since you can spend days in the dream while it really just last a few minutes. Robert Monroe even reported experiencing 100 years in a 2 hours OOBE. But to experience this might be difficult, little research have been done on this area. And those that experience it don't consciously try to have them. Still, there are a few techniques you might try. First of all, set your intention to stop real time. Have that intention in mind while having your Lucid Dream. Picture yourself being in the dream for days, maybe even weeks before you wake up. You might try to saying out loud: "Stop time now!" You can try looking at your clock in the dream, and imagine that the clock slow down and stop. You might try to expect the dream to last for days. You might try visualize two pyramids, connected at their bases counterrotating. And maybe visualize multiple pyramids rotating inside each other all rotating. This is something worth going for, as it may give you incredible long Lucid Dreams.

From : http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/luciddrea ... d%20Dreams?

[desmond001]

I have made OBEs last a long time but lost lucidity- they turned into a non-lucid dream, quite stupid at last. So I'm not sure if that would happen in a LD- I would think that at some point you'd forget you're dreaming and 'lose it'. I guess it depends on your level of energy or perhaps your natural tendency to LD.

[eropiereetuekm]

RB wrote in Astral Dynamics that during trance time often either seems to slow down or rush up.

I did some literature research on the subject as I have experienced the slowing down of time (up to what *seems* to have been a standstill) several times and was curious about the effect. I found out that our human conscious sense of time is based on the speed of our physical body - just as in all animals. In general, small animals like birds, insects and small mammals see everything in what we would call slow motion - thus their fast reactions. Our brain is quite able to move and process VERY fast, too, but as our bodies wouldn't be able to move as fast, the consciousness is slowed down, it probably would be a waste of energy otherwise.

But dreams are not limited to the speed of the physical body's nervous system, thus the dreaming consciousness can work faster. The same is true for trance states - physical body is sleeping. In astral projection you don't use your physical body either.

But it is also possible for the consciousness to speed up during meditation or in wake extreme situations like shock or accidents. During an accident I was aware of the physical world in slow motion - giving me the fast reaction of a small animal. It was a curious feeling, for my physical body did not speed up as my consciousness did. It felt as if I was moving through water. For some reason this surprised me.

In my experience it is possible to speed up the conscious awareness during meditation up to what seems like no time at all. I use music as a time counting instrument. I concentrate on the music until I loose all other sensorical input. Then I start to play with my expectation. I use music I know well so I can imagine what comes next (sing it in my mind a split second before it reaches my ears) or keep myself without expectation - as if I was listening to the music first time. After a while I become aware of some kind of holes in time - I get the impression that more time should have elapsed than the music actually shows. These holes can be moved through with your consciousness. There is a strange kind of expansion on the other side of the hole that seems to be outside time (if this makes sense to anyone). I slip through it several times without the music going on.

The key (or one of the keys) seems to be our expectation. During early childood our brain learns to expect how fast the physical body can be moved. This is necessary for conscious movement after all. So to become aware and control this center of expectations is a means to devellop conscious time awareness and being in the NOW, literally.

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

I found your post really interesting Freawaru. I was part way through thinking about a car accident I was in at 13 and one I witnessed in my early 20s and I remembered how time seemed to be in slow motion. Then I read you'd experienced it too.

Your experiments in meditation are fascinating.

[97dYA9L3]

Good post, Freawaru.
It is food for thought in an area I haven't really explored yet.

Thanks,
Matthew

[eropiereetuekm]

Thanks guys

You know, after this experience I actually thought that maybe this speeded up awareness is what some martial arts people really can get into intentionally. Like, say, some Shaolin monks or samurai (the greek hero Achill also come to my mind). It was incredible how much my reactions increased by it (well, those moments I also had a 360 degree vision and what felt like perfect body-control - as if I could see my whole body from the inside and control everything).

Anyway, I think this would be a very usefull talent to pursue considering the dangers of modern traffic