Thread: dreaming fatigue

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

That's actually something I was curious about. Does lucid dreaming inhibit you from getting the amount of rest you need? It sounds like your brain is pretty active and "wakeful" during lucid dreams.

I don't have a lot of lucid dreams, but I have pretty vivid ones. I've never noticed any ills effects, even when I am motivated enough to wake up during the night to jot my dreams down even though I'd much rather be snoozing.

If you're fatigued, it's probabaly more to do with lack of sleep.

i get about 6-8 hours of sleep a day
lately it seems like it's not enough

Originally Posted by Small Town Wizard

That's actually something I was curious about. Does lucid dreaming inhibit you from getting the amount of rest you need? It sounds like your brain is pretty active and "wakeful" during lucid dreams.

Your brain is constantly active even if you are not lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming has no more of a physical effect on you then normal dreaming does, it is after all just a dream you are controlling.

If you however find that when you have lucid dreams you tend to think you are more psychically drained then try having normal ones as well. I use to lucid dream a lot, but I always let my mind have free realm over my dreams ever once in a while since a dream is your mind trying to express itself and its not good to hold those expressions back all the time, or so they say. However I noticed no ill effects on myself. Or the common one is if I became lucid I would just go along with the dream, somethings they turned out to be exciting, like watching a TV show