 So I've been asked what happens when you get stuck in a dream, you know Can you get out? Is it something that you never really get over or is it just something that randomly happens sometimes? So when you get stuck in a dream, you never really You know, you can always escape the dream by just waking up right so you can either open your eyes close your eyes You know spin around tell yourself to wake up. There are loads of different ways you can use different techniques You can use to wake up from a dream But the idea is that sometimes you can feel like you're trapped and that time is sort of standing still Now I've made other videos about time dilation and lucid dreams. This is a bit different. This is more sort of to do with Being held in a lucid dream and feeling like you can't get out and this happens usually for only one reason And that's because you're not completely lucid. So there as I've said before there are different layers of lucidity I believe there are one to sort of five or six layers Each one is different and has a definite sort of distinction as to what makes it that layer There's sort of like a turning point or you know a part a point that you go past where you know You're in the certain layer of lucidity And so when you when you feel like you're stuck in lucid dream often You're not completely lucid because if you were you'd be able to tell yourself. I'm in control here You know, you can decide to wake up. You can decide to make the dream longer shorter Whatever the case is So yeah, if you feel like you're stuck in a lucid dream the chances are you're not completely lucid You're just sort of on the edge of layer one So you're just starting to become aware and in control of your the dream situation, but you're not completely You know the boss, you're not completely in control. You can't decide exactly what happens And it sort of feels like you're you're aware of the dream and you as the dreamer But you can't quite control it and so it's almost like watching yourself from above if you imagine you're sort of up here Watching yourself from a third part a third point of view And that's why you feel like you're not in control and it feels like you're sort of stuck All right, and yeah, it can be scary But at the end of the day all it is is a normal dream that you're slightly more aware of you're slightly more lucid in okay, and The truth is you know, you know, although it feels like you're stuck You're never gonna really be stuck for more than about one to two minutes probably maximum three to five minutes because that's the average dream length and Any longer than that and it would be it almost impossible, you know You can never be stuck in a lucid dream for more than an hour or you know anything like that The problem is and the reason that this sort of gets a lot of attention on especially on forums and things like reddits because one Sort of minute in the dream can feel like a lot longer up to ten times as much so one minute can feel like ten minutes, okay? And this means that it like I said before with time dilation You feel like you're spending longer in there even though you're only actually there for a minute So it can feel like you're stuck there for a long time especially if you are just teetering on the edge of lucidity and you're just you know One minute you're aware and lucid then the next minute you slip back into a normal dream and this sort of mixture Creates like a brain fog where you don't really know how long you've been in there, okay? Because you've never really been Conscious completely it's sort of like when you when you have a nap in the middle of the day And you're just sort of dozing off and because you're sort of flickering between being conscious and being asleep You know you could have a five-minute nap But it might feel like five hours and it's the same sort of thing because you're not completely conscious and you're sort of on the edge and you never really know whether you're lucid or Dreaming or awake or whatever it feels like longer and that's why if you feel like you're stuck during that process It can feel like a long time But really it's nothing to worry about all you need to do is just keep practicing a rare reality checks keep lucid dreaming keep meditating and The problem will go away on its own. It's nothing to really worry about so hopefully this is helpful If you have a question, please leave a comment and I'll see you next time