Is it normal...

[Ste]

to get muscle pains after lucid dreaming? I woke up this morning and my eyes ans arms and legs ached and they still do but is this a normal thing to happen?

[Lowercase Society]

The only explenation i would have is that the dream would have had to have been physically or emotionally hard on your body? Usually after an LD, i wake up feeling as if i have had two times the amount of rest!

[Ste]

Yes actually I was performing telekinesis in my dream which took a lot of effort! I think that may explain it as I was lifting the computer at one point

[Lowercase Society]

That explains it then!

[Naruto]

yeah, that happened to me last night,t oo, I woke up and I've had back problems all day, Im not sure how that happened since my dream was just "close" to being lucid...

[dougdrums]

Did you have heavy exercise the day before?

[O'nus]

Also.. When you're sleeping, you may have been sleeping in an awkward position that caused stress on your muscles. With the aid of sleep paralysis, and a bad sleeping position, that would be a good formula for aching muscles.

[jacobo]

i've had my eyes ache while lucid dreaming... i think it could be atrributed to the whole REM thing but im not sure.

[Naruto]

hmm, thats strange... Nope, didnt do much physical activity at all that night. I hit my elbow on a table in a funny position, though, and I thought it was probably while I was sleeping I wanted to not have it laying down so I twisted my back a lot or something... Most reasonal explanation, anyways...