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I'm new to the forum (but not to lucid dreaming), and I was wondering...when you lucid dream, do you lose or gain sleep? What about in states of sleep paralysis (sometimes I can be in a state of sleep paralysis for hours at a time without reaching the lucid dream threshold)? I would like to practice all nights of the week, but if it makes you lose energy I would only want to do it on the weekends or something like that.
I wake up feeling more refreshed.
Quoted from Stephen LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming":
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Q. Won't all these efforts and exercises for becoming lucid lead to loss of sleep? And won't I feel more tired after being awake in my dreams? Is it worth sacrificing my alertness in the daytime just to have more lucid dreams?
A. Dreaming lucidly is usually just as restful as dreaming nonlucidly. Since lucid dreams tend to be positive experiences, you may actually feel invigorated after them. How tired you feel after a dream depends on what you did in the dream—if you battled endlessly and nonlucidly with frustrating situations, you probably will feel more tired than if you realized in the dream that it was a dream and that none of your mundane concerns were relevant.
You should work on learning lucid dreaming when you have time and energy to devote to the task. The exercises for increasing dream recall and inducing lucid dreams probably will require that you spend more time awake during the night than usual, and possibly that you sleep longer hours. If you are too busy to allot more time to sleeping or to sacrifice any of the little sleep you are getting, it's probably not a good idea for you to work on lucid dreaming right now. Doing so will add to your current stress, and you probably won’t get very good results.
Lucid dreaming, at least at first, requires good sleep and mental energy for concentration. Once you learn the techniques, you should be able to get to a point at which you can have lucid dreams any time you wish just by reminding yourself that you can do so.[/b]
And you feel much more lively during the day I think... if you've ever had a really bad dream then you might wake up and for the rest of the day feel crappy. But you feel really good after a lucid dream...