system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do dreams seem to last so long???

but in reality they say it lasts for only few seconds, why is that?
gpt
Your brain doesn't process the flow of time in a dream state. Instead the perception of time passing in your dream is directly correlated to the experience you are having. The rules of reality don't really apply, ill illustrate. If you have a dream where you are watching a baseball game that last ten minutes it will seem much longer. This is because your brain understands how long a baseball game usually takes to play and uses your experiences from real life to simulate the passage of time in your dreams. So the dream is ten minutes but seems to last hours.