Thread: Do you still feel rested after a Lucid Dream?

I'm feeling excited and don't want to wake up. Want another LD.
LD-ing or not, you're still sleeping. So it hs nothing to do with being ''tired'' upon waking

Ok thanks I was just curious.

Well, technically you dream every night. It doesn't matter if your conscious or not, if your conscious, the same muscles are relaxing as they would normally be in regular dreams (keep in mind that there is no "pure" sleep, you always dream, whether you recall you did or not). So if you feel rested after dreaming normally, you should, in theory, be rested even if you had a lucid dream.

Hope this made sense, the bare bones of it are, your muscles are resting during regular dreams or lucid dreams.

Sweet dreams.
(You can have a cookie if you count how many times I said dreams in this... )

Thanks

I feel really rested all the time after, but I don't think this is the same for everyone. Lots of people feel really tired afterwards.

I heard somewhere that someone said that if you send the night in a relaxing dream at a calm landscape, you will wake up rested, lucid or not. If you spend the night fighting like crazy and running, you will feel more tired in the morning. I haven't found this to be true for me, but it might be because I am always so excited after fighting dreams.

I am tired after LDing
It's not like my body is tired, but... my mind. As if I've actually been thinking all night.
I'm not able to LD if I'm too tired... The techniques fail and I fall into a deep sleep. Even my dream recall fails! So that's why I try to LD in the morning, when my mind is already awake and has had an entire night to rest.
I think this is very individual. ^^

i feel better after a lucid.

I usually always do feel rested, even more rested than after non-lucid, exceptions would be a few dreams that were really long and i got lucid near the end, but from that it's not really like feeling of tiredness for me but more like distortion of some kind.

I had often wondered this myself, seeing as I almost always have a tough time getting out of bed without having had 11-12 hours of sleep after nights where I had lucid dreams. I see two possible explanations for this.. 1. Because we're closer to being awake when we're lucid then when we're not (brain areas that normally aren't active while dreaming become active) we may actually be getting a less restful form of sleep. 2. Having had a lucid dream earlier in the night, our desire for lucid dreams increases making us really want to go back to sleep.

Because, at least personally, most of my lucid dreams don't last much longer than 10 minutes, a seemingly insignificant amount of sleep time, I lean towards #2 being the culprit. But I suppose it's possible that if you have even a short lucid dream, your brain could stay closer to being awake after that, even if you don't remain lucid in your dreams, and your sleep quality suffers. This is all of course complete speculation on my part.