Hi this is my first post so im going to give a brief introduction of myself as I hope to be a regular contributor in this forum. Im 18 years old and im a young man from puerto rico. I had a rough childhood, which im proud of as it has enabled me to break through the blindness and ignorance fueled by the system and become one of the aware 5 percent (an earning of stripes if you will). The fact that I had a rough childhood left me feeling that many things were out of my control, such as my own security and physical capacity to defend my self. This vulnerability mixed with a phobia of wasting my life causes me to lead a very productive and active existence. I lift weights, I do grueling conditioning for fighting, I feed my mind with information, I rap, im computer savvy, im one of the fe in my family to ever go to college and the list goes on. This is how I fell upon lucid dreaming. I saw lucid dreaming as an oppurtunity to gain a skill that a VERY small minority of people have and as an oppurtunity to capitalize and be productive in those supposed inactive 8 or so hours of sleep, as well as explore the unknown that is the lucid dream phenonema.

That being said, the problem is the following: monday through friday, apart from college, I literally attempt to kill myself in the gym in order to become more physically capable. When I get home at around 4 im ussually destroyed and drained in everyway possible. You would think that being this tired would enable me to sleep better and achieve a certain ammount relaxation during said rest that would enhance the possibility of lucid dreams. Unfortunately it is much to the contrary. I feel so tired that I cant even concentrate on attaining lucidity, its like my physical exhaustion affects my ability to focus and to do reality checks. I guess what im looking for advice on or im asking is if this seems plausible, and if anybody else has experienced something like this and found a solution.


To summarize, has anyone had any experiences with activity enduced exhaustion in correlation with negative lucid dream effects or the hampering of dreams? Or simply put, does being too tired affect your ability to focus and attain lucidity? If so, any solutions or advice?