Thread: can fans disturb your dream?

I wouldn't imagine so, but I'd think it has less to do with the actual fan and more to do with how used to hearing the fan and having it blow on your face you are. I sleep with one blowing on my face directly currently because my air conditioner has been broken for a while. It doesn't seem to phase me too much but sometimes if I roll towards it I can wake up with a bit of a runny nose. It doesn't disturb my dreaming at all, though.

I suppose anything is possible but I can't remember a fan ever interfering with my lucid dreams. I've had a fan at bedside all summer.

I would say that it can wake you up, if it makes you too cold. I woke up last night and had to turn off both the ceiling fan and the box fan in my room and warm myself back up under the blankets. I usually sleep with fans on all year round though.

There's a tutorial on extending your LD time that recommends NOT using a fan if you want to stay in your dreams longer.

Originally Posted by Dancr

Do you think a fan can you disturb your lucid dream because of noise and fan blowing in your face?

I don't think I've had a fan bother me once I'm in a lucid, but I have definitely been bothered by my fan when trying to enter a lucid during a WILD or DEILD. When your hearing transitions from normal to sleep paralysis state, it will dramatically amplify and distort any noise, especially white/pink noise such as from a fan. I've found it to be very distracting before, but covering my ears with a blanket seems to take care of that problem. I couldn't sleep without my fan though, it bothers me when the air is too still or too quiet.

I always keep a shotgun by my bed for the occasion if any of my fans break into my house to disturb me in my sleep. (kidding. )

Personally, slight ambient noise has always HELPED me to sleep, and I sleep with a fan on in my room currently with no side effects. It might be able to effect your dream, perhaps if you felt it on your face it would blend into the dream (driving a convertible or something, perhaps), but I don't think you would notice that it was the fan.

Originally Posted by -InsaneKid-

Personally, slight ambient noise has always HELPED me to sleep, and I sleep with a fan on in my room currently with no side effects.

+1

Yea I've had a fan in my room for like 6 years now and I can't sleep without it. So it doesn't disturb me, but I can see maybe if your not use to it, it might wake you up. But I doubt it.

Don't worry about silly things like this, just do things how you normally do.
I sleep with a fan on every night, every season. Usually in the winter, just for the noise (I can't sleep in a dead silent room)
If you really think it affects you, then test things out to see what is most beneficial .

Originally Posted by Erii

Don't worry about silly things like this, just do things how you normally do.
I sleep with a fan on every night, every season. Usually in the winter, just for the noise (I can't sleep in a dead silent room)
If you really think it affects you, then test things out to see what is most beneficial .

Same. Hate sleeping in silence.

I wonder...if...people who like to sleep with fan on...are more likely to be into lucid dreaming.

yay silence! But it shouldn't disturb sleep anymore than it does normal sleep, so that depends on the person and their common reaction.