The Human Floyd said:

Not sure about dreaming, but I had a friend who tried salvia and felt like he was gone for days. Once he started to come out of it he realized it was the same day, but panicked and asked me if I had taken the biscuits out of the oven. I told him they wouldn't be ready for another twenty minutes and he was astonished. He says he met people and went to strange places.

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Ryath said:

check out this thread if you are interested in exploring your uncertainty regarding time.

On the timing and dreaming topic, it's my understanding that our current sleep cycle only allows 15-20 minutes of dreaming per cycle. Each cycle is about 85 minutes and ends or starts, depending on how you want to look at it, when we go into dreaming again.

The question, I suppose, is whether or not we could stay in the dreaming stage once we are aware of being in it. You, because you have a weekly occurrence of lucid dreaming, should be better able to answer this than those like myself who only rarely lucid dream.

It sounds to me like you should start a dream journal. I am inclined to believe, after hearing this from many different sources, that dreams are our personal world reflected in symbols. The symbols, therefore, do not reflect the state of the earthly world, but of our inner world, our inner crisis or our inner peace, etc. What the symbols mean, then, becomes a task of identification. The best way to do this is using what my spiritual-psychology ladyfriend calls dreamwork.

Essentially, you first write or draw everything you remember from the dream(s) upon waking. Then you revisit what you wrote/drew and freely associate whatever words or ideas come to mind when you consider what you are looking at. I recommend meditating just prior to free association so that your mind is a bit clearer before you go to your dream journal and attempt interpretation.

hope this helps

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mesoamerican said:

The thing is I can't mediate or know how to.

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I think you meant "meditate" there?
Check out this one.

And regardless, free association is possible without meditation.
However, I'm of the opinion you should face those demons and that fear.