When we dream, why does it authentically feel like we dream for

So were you needing advice for something orrrrrr......

I don't know I guess it's because time is merely something that your mind can perceive but not something that has a "real" state. If your mind works faster it can pretend time is slower maybe?
Also I once read a theory that when you die, your mind slows down time and puts you in a dream state that makes you feel like you are dreaming literally forever when it actually happens during the course of one instant, the instant when you die.

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Another question would be, why do dreams feel 100% as authentic as our consciousness does in this base reality?

There's a part of me that thinks, if it doea feel one hundred percent real, then in a certain way maybe ithe is.

Maybe our minds function in two different ways: one in their dream world and one in the base reality world - but both are just as real as the other

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>When we dream, why does it authentically feel like we dream for hours and hours in this long pisode of a dream when in reality it only lasted for like 20 minutes or so?
Because time is simply a sense, and can be skwewed in a dream, similar to how you can see, hear, and feel things in a dream that are not really there.

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Your consciousness is the same one that exists in reality and when you dream, the difference is in a dream you're just imagining reality.

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Bump

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OP, you know when your awake and you do something very boring you think you have been doing it for hours, when in reality you were only doing it for 30 minutes? Similarly, when your doing something fun it feels like it has been 30 minutes, but in reality a few hours have passed? The mind isn't a good recorder of time, so that's why you think your dream occurs much longer than it is. Also, you use a heuristic to determine time. For example, if a dream shifts from day to night in the course of 10 minutes, your mind only really picks up on the fact that the state of the day has changed, and interpolates that if it went from day to night, hours and hours must have passed.

Tl;dr the mind doesn't record accurately