Thread: Will being sick affect Lucid Dreaming?

I have a cold, and my recall has gone down. Could being sick change anything?

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Yes. Being sick can definitely affect recall - as well as how vivid your dreams are. Everything from the type of illness, to how comfortable you are when you sleep; to the effects of the medicine you're taking can affect your dreaming experience.

Usually, mine will end up getting more vivid when I have something like the flu. I tend to sleep longer and that, alone, makes me have more vivid dreams. Also, if I have to keep waking up during the night, that helps me to remember more, too. It all depends.

Often i overheat and have vivid dreams.
A few times I was taking cold and flu tablets with pseudoefedrine in them.
They give you like a euphoric sleep and half awake, which got me lucid a few times.
The recall does suffer but with the other things that happened I didn't care about recall.

Yep Certainly can.

I find that during the mornings, when i have a bad flu (and once a fever) I hallucinate quite a bit upon waking up (one time i saw a huge bird thing fly towards my window, it was about 3 metres in wingspan xD). This only happens for a few seconds though, and it even happens to people who aren't sick. In my experience though, things like the cold can make recall go down. The best way to counter this is to go to bed earlier. This will lead to more REM sleep (when you dream basically) and so more chance to become lucid.

Ok. I am amazed at how keeping a DJ really can control your recall. I've noticed that if I write down my dreams every night for a week straight, my dream recall goes up to about 3-4 dreams a night. But if I stop for even just 2 nights, it goes down to 0, and I have to rebuild it by writing in my DJ more.