Fatigue

**Crowskee** · 07-03-2011 11:04 PM

I searched for this topic but couldn't find anything:

I understand that during REM sleep you are getting the deepest restoration to your *physical* faculties. The thing I'm concerned about is if lucid dreaming can be a drain on *mental* energy? Any experience with this?

(I know if I did math problems in my head all night while my body slept peacefully I would wake up tired.)

**Matt123** · 07-03-2011 11:55 PM

Straight from Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the world of lucid dreaming:
Q. Won't all these efforts and exercises for becoming lucid lead to loss of sleep? And won't 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 tires you feel after a dream depends on what you did in the dream--if you battled endlessly and nonlucidly with frustrating situations, you probably will feel more tired than ifnyou realized 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 will probably require that you spend more time awake during the night than usual, and possibly that you sleep longer hours. If you are too busy to allot more time to sleeping or to sacrifice any of the little sleep you are getting, it's probably not a good idea for you to work on lucid dreaming right now. Doing so will add to your current stress, and 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 able to get to a point at which you can have lucid dreams anytime you wish just by reminding yourself that you can do so.

It might not be the exact answer to your question though I guess it could apply.

**StonedApe** · 07-03-2011 11:58 PM

I've never experienced that, but I have experienced increased mental energy after LDing. I think this has to do with being more in the moment after LDing, but in this moment I don't feel like elaborating.

**dreamcatcher81** · 07-04-2011 03:37 AM

ld 's give you a energy boost if anything even if you only had a hour of sleep depending on your experience that morning or night you may be up all day reviewing it in excitement.