Ask someone who is living a dream what it feels like. The person tells you that the description has the less momentum, intensity and realness about it than the experience itself. Its inevitable. When you step outside awareness of the moment, it loses something for you are no longer here.
Notice when you love what you are doing, time collapses or you lose a sense of time. When you do not even like what you are doing, time seems to drag out and the experience lasts far too long. Time is a gauge. How much you spend on something reveals an unconscious priority. Whether you notice time or not also tells you a lot about how real something it for you. A dream is often viewed as something surreal, something to work toward. Yet, it is also a feeling or state of being.