Thread: do LDs prevent rest?

Its been awhile since I've really been studying LDing but I'm pretty sure the only rest you'll loose LDing is when you wake up all excited and then try to get back to sleep to LD again. Not sure though, but I still feel rested after a night of LDing

When you are LDing, your mind is very active, so the rest that you will have during one if very minimal. LDs rarely last long enough to make a difference, though.

I find an LD is my best night's sleep.

When I wake up after a significant dream or an LD I feel weel and truely rested, and I feel ready to start the day.

It refreshes my mind and wakes me with a smile.

I think that since you dream every night regardless it shouldn't affect sleep much.

yeah, i would think that being conscious would take away from the rest your body is getting, even though you are still asleep. but i'm not really sure, which is why i started this thread.

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huh?

LD would take away from the original rest that your body needs, because the body only truely rest during Non-Rem periods. Prolonged LD's can make you feel less rested in some cases but you have to manipulate the REM cycle which may a very difficult task since the body by nature is set.

Even during an LD wouldnt it just end after a whileand you would just go into non-REM. But what do i know i just started this anyway but it makes sense to me, someone please correct me if i have no idea what im taking about

I don't think lucid dreaming prevent rest from your body as your body is still asleep even though you're aware of the dream. Instead it might prevent some rest from your mind as it's working more normally in a lucid dream than in a normal dream. I don't really know for 100% sure though, but that's what I think.

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I think that since you dream every night regardless it shouldn't affect sleep much.

Yeah, but in an LD you are concious, right?[/b]

We have dreams every night, all the time, even if we don't remember them. They are a natural part of rest. Having them is good, if we didn't, we would probably die within a week or two. Are lucid dreams very different to normal dreams? If they are really the same thing, then it shouldn't subtract any rest at all.

In my opinion, lucid dreams are the same as normal ones. In dreams, we act and think the same as we do in real life. If we learn to be more aware in real life, then we will be while asleep. Lucid dreams are really no different than normal dreams; they are still based on our habits and things we expect in real life. REM is REM is REM. Personally i think most people are just as conscious while dreaming as they are while awake.

I don't believe that being more aware makes us tired, but being tired makes us less aware... In real life i think it puts things in perspective, and can releave stress in that way. If anything, being lucid makes me happier and relaxed, and ready to go when i wake up.

Maybe awareness does make us tired, but whatever effect it has, it makes little difference because we can only dream part of the night anyway.

I vaugely recall Stephen LaBerge saying in EWLD it didn't prevent rest, but I don't have the book at hand to prove that.

Found it:

Originally posted by EWLD
Q. Wont all these efforts and exercises for becoming lucid lead to loss of sleep? And wont I feel more tired after being awake in my dreams? Is it worth sacrificing my alertness in the daytime just to have more lucid dreams?

A. Dreaming lucidly is usually just as restful as dreaming nonlucidly. Since lucid dreams tend to be positive experiences, you may actually feel invigorated after them. How tire you feel after a dream depends what you did in the dream-if you battled endlessly and nonlucidly with frustrating situations, you will probably feel more tired than if you realised in the dream that it was a dream and that none of your mundane concerns were relevant .
* * You should work on learning lucid dreaming when you have time and energy to devote to the task. The exercises for increasing dream recall and inducing lucid dreams probably will require that you spend more time awake during the night that usual, and possibly that you sleep longer hours. If you are too busy to allot more time to sleeping or sacrifice any of the little sleep you are getting, its probably not a good idea for you to work on lucid dreaming right now. Doing so will add to your current stress, and you probably won't get very good results. Lucid dreaming, at least at first, requires good sleep and mental energy for concentration. Once you learn the techniques, you should be ableto get to at point at which you can have lucid dreams at any time you wish just by reminding yourself that you can do so.

Yea I want to say exactly what Kaniaz said.

If you read again EWLD in the QnA chapter, the last question
asks the same thing. Unless you have the book a short answer is :
"No, your body rests adequately while LDing as well as while not LDing" so dont bother it.

P.S. I had the same question roo.

But i heard the mental thinking burns alot of calories too and calories are energy...so you use up alot of evergy during LD'ing i would think correct me if im wrong tho.

Originally posted by pytis
But i heard the mental thinking burns alot of calories too and calories are energy...so you use up alot of evergy during LD'ing i would think correct me if im wrong tho.

Actually, it is a natural thing for your body to burn calories, b/c they give your body the energy needed to make your heart beat & pump the blood through the system! And I am skeptical about the mental thinking burning calories. So whether asleep or awake, your body still burns calories. If it didn't, we'd all be dead!
BTW, I have had 6 hour LDs everyday for years, & really, it doesn't sap my energy at all.....it actually makes me full of energy!

Wow 6 hours thats awsome. Does it realy feel like 6 hours or a few minutes?

Originally posted by pytis
Wow *6 hours thats awsome. Does it realy feel like 6 hours or a few minutes?

No...I actually do it for that long...then again, I have been doing it everyday for 14 1/2 years now..so that might explain it a bit better!
But let's get back on topic!!