 All right, what's up ladies and gentlemen in this video I'm going to be explaining to you how long a lucid dream lasts So how much time it takes in real time and perceived time and also I'm going to explain about how you can how you can make a lucid dream Last longer, okay, it's very it's fairly simple. There are some things you can do Which will make your dream not only seem like it's lasting longer, but also make it actually take more time in the real world So let's go right into it. So basically when you lucid dream you are in what's known as REM sleep rapid eye movement sleep Okay, and this stage of sleep is where your your eyes will make rapid movements under your eyelids as you're asleep in order to Simulate the dreams that you're having. Okay, and almost all dreams happen in this REM sleep So as you sleep you have a sleep what's known as sleep cycles which comprise 90 minutes Towards the end of that 90 minutes. You'll have a period of REM sleep, which can be anything from 10 minutes up to an hour So essentially a lucid dream or a normal dream can last The duration of that REM sleep so say if in your first sleep cycle you have a REM period of 10 minutes You could have a dream for 10 minutes if you wait until later on in the evening and in the night sorry until one of the latest stages of sleep Towards the early hours of the morning when I suggest you do lucid dreaming you can have a lucid dream up to an hour So it really depends which stage of the night you're in And how long you're staying in the lucid dream for now what usually happens is people will wake themselves up in the middle of a Dream by getting so excited or by you know losing focus or whatever the case may be And that is one of the most common mistakes people make is they have a lucid dream they get lucid But then they suddenly wake themselves up So I've made other videos about this. There's some there's some things you can do to sort of stay in the lucid dream for long longer periods of time But yeah, generally speaking you you will have a dream for Up to the the duration of your REM sleep. So say if it's 10 minutes 20 minutes up to an hour Of real time now the interesting thing is that when you're in a dream the perception of time changes completely So you could be in a dream and You could dream for 10 minutes But to you as the dreamer would feel like potentially weeks or even years and the reason for this is because when you dream You don't really have a very good perception of time So you don't really have a good understanding of how much actual time is passing because you're experiencing things in a different reality is almost like you're Watching a film of time going past, but you're not really aware of how much time is going past. So Think for example, if you were to watch the time lapse of say two three years Okay You'd be aware of the time passing in real time as you're watching the video maybe two or three minutes But you would also be aware that you're watching Two or three years worth of time go past in a video That's what is basically happening in a lucid dream, but you're not aware of how much real time is passing So to you the dreamer it just feels like you're experiencing that length of time two or three years for example So yeah, I hope this answers your question. This was an anonymous question that was sent in But yeah, if you have any questions, please leave a comment and don't forget to subscribe