"Who's to say that 10 minutes can't be an eternity in your own mind?"

That wouldn't equal an eternity, nothing finite can. Yet it could equal a passage way into another form where time can be percieved differently along with reality and all things about it.

Although the dream theory is plausible and I do agree.

Although it's simply no where near that simple. What we create within our minds is reality, whether we're asleep or not. Yet when we die we have no physical brain to create those things, so it's a conscious creation, instead of conscious/subconscious. No dreaming. But a constant stream of creation.

There's a little birdie that goes around telling people the whole point of coming to the physical plane is to for 1)experience, and for 2)perfect that natural ability of creating what you experience, so that when we go back to the other side or the plane of higher vibratory experience, IE: no body, just rotating fields of energy (spirit), we don't end up creating the wrong things, hurting ourselves, or just going off into a nightmarish, or like the poster above me said, boring "brainvomit" type experience. The whole point is to see that it's brainvomit and CHANGE IT!