Thread: What Causes That After-ld Feeling?

wouldnt know..I always feel refreshed after a lucid dream, once reason why I desire them!

Originally Posted by arby

You know that strange sort of drowy yet at the same time fully awake, tingly feeling in you head after and LD? Thats not a very good way of putting it, but do you know what I mean?

What causes that? Would it be addrenaline, the fact that your minds been doing overtime, the fact that you might be using differnt/unknown regions of the brain or other?
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I get that after nightmares, always. Is it on the back of your head around your cerebellum?

Originally Posted by Zakar

I get that after nightmares, always. Is it on the back of your head around your cerebellum?
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yeah, pretty much.

Adrenaline probably.

Originally Posted by arby

the fact that your minds been doing overtime[/b]

I like that thought.

I feel lots of things when waking from a lucid...sometimes I feel amazingly refreshed and happy...sometimes, if I've been in and out of lucids for a few hours...I'll become exhausted. But yeah I assume that the happy tingly feeling is from adrenaline/dopamine release?

For me its just excitement that I had a lucid.

Hmm. Perhaps it is because your body was resting while your mind wasn't. Or something like that...

Originally Posted by juroara

wouldnt know..I always feel refreshed after a lucid dream, once reason why I desire them!
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Same. I feel calm and happy!

"refreshed" is a good way to put it

massive seratonin/dopamine cascade? beats me, but it feels cool. A sense of total completion and peace usually, doubled with a full-body buzz.

I think of it as just the transition. I often get that horrible feeling as if great music was recorded on a tape recorder from 1957, as if the awesome clarity of my dream was being lost as I woke up...like remembering it with my physical brain somehow made it lose it's realism.

The best analogy I can give is it seems as though my lucid dream is water: clear, ever changing and real...yet when I wake up and recall, it's as if I see that water flash freeze in an instant...giving me that "tingly" feeling and a return to a solid state. I hate that.

Wow this is my first post in like... 4 months or so. Woo. It's been a while since I had a lucid dream... I don't even remember. There's a reason for all of this, and it kind of relates to this topic which is why I'm gonna post. For my first LD's I would definitely have to agree with the profound sense of completeness and satisfaction feeling. Eventually I got into the habit of always seeking out a dream character that you can read about in the favorite LD link in my sig. I very rarely succeeded at this and I always woke up with a profound sense of loss and incompletion. And all of my LD's were filled with stress and urgency over this. Eventually I got to the point where I just gave up. I rarely have LD's anymore, well compared with the frequency I used to have them. I have one probably twice a month now. I remember all my dreams quite well, and I've been having lots of nightmares lately. I kind of want to get back into LD'ing because of that fact, but at the same time I feel I'll probably fall into the same thing as before.