Originally posted by Viper
I started trying to have lucid dreams and was successful after about a week. Since then, I am not able to get up. I'll go to sleep, set my alarm clock at a high volume, and still sleep through it. The first night I had about 6 hrs to sleep before my alarm went off. I end up waking 12 hrs later and still tired. The next night, I get 8 hrs of sleep before I have to get up. I wake up about 12hrs later again. What is happening? Why can't I get up anymore? I've been trying to get lucid dreams after my first one, and cant help but keep trying. I dont think I'm making myself tired by trying to "overwork" my brain, but something is definitely happening to me. Its not like I can just quit trying to have lucid dreams because it is somehow a part of me now. I cant quit trying if I wanted to and right now I want to (at least for a time) so I can start waking up like normal again. Has this happened to anyone before?
Thanks,
Ryan
Wow, doing the math, it appears that you have been staying in bead for 18 and 20 hours at a time. This would hardly be plausible if you had a job. Or if you had an important hobby or advocation to get up for. But it seems that Lucid Dreaming is your hobby and you are staying in bed for it.
But this is not a workable strategy. Let me explain this in two ways. Studies have shown that people deprived of sleep for several days will finally have intensified dreams when they are allowed to sleep, or will even begin to hallucinate their dreams while awake. So it seems that dreams are stored up. Inversely then, we can suppose that after a certain point of over-sleeping, dreams are run out. We can see in Religious-Ascetic Spiritual Traditions that it was more the custom to minimize sleep in order to intensify the Visionary Experiences during what little sleep would be alotted.
Now, about being 'tired' after sleep the entire day away... well, the word should rather be rendered as 'lethargic'. If one oversleeps then one is not so much 'tired' as 'lethargic'. Lethargy can be partially remedied with a vigorous bout of intense exercise -- running a few miles or a set of aerobic exercises. Otherwise, one will feel 'heavy' and slothful until normal waking and sleeping patterns are resumed.
Ordinarily we see this pattern of oversleep in Depressed Individuals, where the lethargy which follows on to oversleep tends to exaserbate the depression. It is a positive feedback loop in a bad situation, making everything worse.
Well, enough is enough and any more is too much. If one has not had the Big Dream in 8 hours, then it is time to throw in the towel and wake up. One needs to have other priorities in life than dreaming. With that much time, one could train up for a Marathon. One could write a Novel. Instead, every hour over 8 in sleep is a veritable waste of time. No one has ever had an Important Dream much after sun up.
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