Thread: Does being lucid stop you from resting.

It is entirely possible.
Everyone who is LDing likes to tell people there's no way it can harm you, even though there's not a lot of research out the proving that to be true. They assume becuase they've never personally gotten sick that LDing can't ever be harmful.

I know that personally after a night of Lucid Dreaming I -always- feel more tired. In fact I feel more tired just from having super intense dreams even if I'm not entirely lucid. In fact I always take breaks from practicing LDing because my body isn't well suited to keep it up without going a little loopy during the day. If you're fine though, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Different people are differently affected, I would think. But I'm pretty sure it does take away a certain element of rest from EVERY person, just some people have it on a small unnoticeable scale and others on a larger scale. I mean think about it, some people can function perfectly on 4 hours a sleep a night, oddly enough. So even if Lucid Dreaming does disrupt rest (and I'm sure it does) some wouldn't even notice or feel it.

And people saying your mind doesn't need rest are RIDICULOUS.
Your mind is everything you are, how you function, how you think properly, bodily AND mentally.
When we sleep, (and this hasn't been proven but many scientists speculate) there are many different options for why we need sleep mentally. And their main lead is that our memories and events of the day are being sorted out while we sleep, ect. If we're still busy thinking as hard as possible even while we're asleep then that gets disrupted. Not only that, most people report having better rest after a night that seemed dreamless. If being mostly in our subconscious when we sleep wasn't in some way important, then it wouldn't be a natural occurrence. Lucid Dreaming is not natural, even though we do it by accident sometimes, the extent practitioners of LDing take it to is not natural for our minds. I love Lucid Dreaming but people tend to just say its 100% healthy just because they don't want to believe their hobby could ever harm them in any way.