Thread: Lucid dreaming disturbs rest?

Hello there everyone.

I'm doing a project about Lucid dreaming for my school and I've been asking myself some questions about it and one thing that I really feel that I need to know is this, by being mentally conscious during your sleep, do you really rest as well as you would normally during sleep?? Why or why not?

Thanks,
David

I feel as rested on nights that I lucid dream as those that I don't. If anything I feel more energized because of my mood.
Dreaming mostly happens during REM sleep anyway, and that is only about a quarter of the time you're usually sleeping.

Yeah I agree with Awesome-o there. I used to ask this same question, but I never noticed any sort of difference. I was more energized if anything.

I think this is because the parts of our brains that need the rest DO get the rest. It only takes a very small part of your brain to gain awareness in dreams and... yeah.

I find myself less rested after a night of heavy LD'ing than when I don't do it. I don't think it has anything to do with not getting as much rest when you're aware of the dream, but I do wake up in the middle and have to re-enter the dream, and also get a lot of FAs so I think that it can be very disruptive. Not enough of a pain to make me stop though

Hmm. I think it's important to distinguish between LDing with WBTBs, waking up a bunch of times during the night, that sort of thing... from LDing in the middle of an uninterrupted sleep.

Well I never actively try to WBTB. However, any LD that I've ever had (that I recall anyway!) has lead to me waking up. And then of course I always have to try to DEILD because it sucks to wake up in the middle of a cool dream!