Thread: Does being lucid stop you from resting.

Even if it does, I think its worth it:

Moo

Our hearts generally beats almost one time per second. Our brain never is totally asleep. LDs shouldn't be much of a problem, since we just awake another part of the brain...

Dreams and lucid dreams are really the same though, except I read somewhere that in a lucid dream they believe the logic part of the brain becomes active or something.

Actually, I just watched a 7 minutes documentary about sleep/dreams/lucid dreams and it said that the brain was even more active during our sleep than during the day, well, during the REM sleep at least. It said that at that moment, the brain was more active than ever except for the logic part of the brain... So I don't think being lucid makes it so more active...

Hey guys; we'd better respect the Dream Pirate...
That gives me an idea!

Originally Posted by Tobi Uchiha

Hey guys; we'd better respect the Dream Pirate...
That gives me an idea!

What's your idea?

Well me, it's just that the way the seal talked to me about him in my first lucid dream, is that he was the king of dreams and lucid dreams so I had the feeling he is my dream guide and when I become good in lucid dreams I will go find his boat and ask to meet him and give him a present and then he will maybe be my dream guide... I hope

A few points. first of all babies spend what 50 to 75 % of their time in REM? so obviously (?) REM is supportive of growing rapidly. i don't think REM can be bad for you.

secondly i believe we are having levels of consciousness at many levels simultaneously. it's just that most people aren't conscious of their levels.

so in tibetan dream yoga i believe... or other forms of awareness practice... you learn to tap into what is already happening. you are already dreaming, already having multiple states of awarenesses.

hey everyone: YOU ARE GENIUSES! that's right. LD is teaching you to reclaim this and to function with optimal capacity! to wake up from your slumber and become superhuman.

you can do it...!!! i can do it... !!! (well, i'm trying, anyway.)

wish me luck, this is the direction i want to head.

i think the tiredness comes from waking up, and/or not getting back to sleep, the stresses of the friction of our emotions when we don't get it right, let go of potential ld's, not remembering dreams, etc... well, again, i know that's the part where i think i get tired or discouraged.

true LD nourishes my soul because i know i am coming home to my deeper/deepest levels of being.

Originally Posted by beachgirl

A few points. first of all babies spend what 50 to 75 % of their time in REM? so obviously (?) REM is supportive of growing rapidly. i don't think REM can be bad for you.

secondly i believe we are having levels of consciousness at many levels simultaneously. it's just that most people aren't conscious of their levels.

so in tibetan dream yoga i believe... or other forms of awareness practice... you learn to tap into what is already happening. you are already dreaming, already having multiple states of awarenesses.

hey everyone: YOU ARE GENIUSES! that's right. LD is teaching you to reclaim this and to function with optimal capacity! to wake up from your slumber and become superhuman.

you can do it...!!! i can do it... !!! (well, i'm trying, anyway.)

wish me luck, this is the direction i want to head.

i think the tiredness comes from waking up, and/or not getting back to sleep, the stresses of the friction of our emotions when we don't get it right, let go of potential ld's, not remembering dreams, etc... well, again, i know that's the part where i think i get tired or discouraged.

true LD nourishes my soul because i know i am coming home to my deeper/deepest levels of being.

I hope everyone see's your post. It is so important for us to become aware of what we are capable of. Although I have not attained lucidity yet; I have experienced many other spiritual highs. Trance comes innately to me for some reason; I usually have full fledged conversations while talking to others, and maintaining full attentiveness: If those of you reading this cannot do that; then you must believe that we are aware on multiple levels... that or I'm just special, which I don't think is true. Least not in that way.

I never experience anything spiritual.. I don't meditate or anything. I do LD all the time and I think I may have shared a dream once or twice now... unless it was just a coincidence.

Originally Posted by Loaf

I never experience anything spiritual.. I don't meditate or anything. I do LD all the time and I think I may have shared a dream once or twice now... unless it was just a coincidence.

It wasn't a coincidence Loaf... it was a shared dream, and I'm gonna keep telling you that to keep you believing it. From what I've read, believing is a lot of where your power comes from.

First Question: No. Lack of sleep stops you from resting. NEXT

Originally Posted by Portalboat

Well, from what I know, the mind doesn't need rest. Although, of course, if you decide to live out a second life, THEN you might go insane.

But my answer is: That's why we don't have lucids every night.

Originally Posted by Lucidness

I dont think so, because your sub concious mind is always doing something all the time. Whether your dreaming or not. But as someone has said, trying to live a second life in your dreams all the time, might make you go a bit insane.

I have lucids every night. I live out a second life in dreams. I am going crazy, wanna come?

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

I have lucids every night. I live out a second life in dreams. I am going crazy, wanna come?

Incidentally, I've done the same for years. Not insane yet, and I get plenty of rest (although I like having extra sleep so I sleep in whenever possible.

Well dreaming is just your imagination going a million miles an hour...

During the day... that part of the brain tends to relax.

During the night, the Day parts of the brain turn off and the imagination center turns on.

So i see no harm in being 100% lucid all the time.

It's just swapping around the brain areas for different usages.

The part of the brain that is active during LD, my beleif is, is NOT used in day to day activity.

Rather, it get's an ECHO of your day to day activity. (memory is stored all throughout the brain in random locations.)

I'm kinda hard to read here so I hope this makes a bit of sense.

Originally Posted by OfficerFlake

Well dreaming is just your imagination going a million miles an hour...

During the day... that part of the brain tends to relax.

During the night, the Day parts of the brain turn off and the imagination center turns on.

So i see no harm in being 100% lucid all the time.

It's just swapping around the brain areas for different usages.

The part of the brain that is active during LD, my beleif is, is NOT used in day to day activity.

Rather, it get's an ECHO of your day to day activity. (memory is stored all throughout the brain in random locations.)

I'm kinda hard to read here so I hope this makes a bit of sense.

just wondering, is this a personal theory or is this really what some studies show. Just wondering what to make of this.

Originally Posted by Xedan

just wondering, is this a personal theory or is this really what some studies show. Just wondering what to make of this.

It's not exactly scientific, no, it's more of a very broad layman's explanation (no offense to Flake).

Yeah parts of the brain shut down during sleep and dreams, but as far as I know there is no literal imagination center of the brain.

I agree with Awakening

Stephen LaBerge says in ETWOLD that lucid dreaming DOESN'T affect you in any bad way. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Originally Posted by XeL

Stephen LaBerge says in ETWOLD that lucid dreaming DOESN'T affect you in any bad way. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Yes, this. LaBerg is an expert on the physiology of lucid dreaming, so I would take his word over anyone else's.