I highly doubt the fact that having lucid dreams makes you tired in the morning. Honestly, your brain is just as active as it would be when you’re awake. I think its the time you’re goign to bed and waking up. I don’t care if you get a decent night’s sleep. Maybe you’re waking up during a very deep sleep where you feel very tired when you wake up. Work at it a few days and see when you wake up, you’re deepest sleep stage is, and what your lightest sleep stage is, for waking up a light sleep stage should lead you to be less exhausted in the morning…
I don’t really understand what you mean, the only states I feel are dreams and lucid dreams. When I’m asleep I am not aware of anything so unable to tell if I am in a light or deep sleep.
I usually get up about 11am. I finish working about 4pm. I usually go to bed around 1am.
When I was looking on the net trying to find sites about lucid dreaming i read that the side effects of taking DMAE are lucid dreams, so maybe you should try that but i wouldn’t recommend it.
Lucid dreams are not really something to get excited about. Although you can control what happens in them, ultimately they are just dreams and you will get bored of them and eventually just long for a normal nights sleep.
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I have LD’s occasionally, without prompt. I don’t find my sleep to be any worse, in fact I often feel better when I wake up. You get bored of LD’s!?
I don’t think feeling tired and LD are linked in such a cause and effect way as you mention. Most nights, I don’t LD and still feel horrible in the morning so don’t be so sure that it’s the LD that is causing this.
I envy you anyway- not only are you having so many LD’s, but you also get to sleep in till 11.00am! Perhaps you are sleeping in too late? There is some evidence, that oversleeping can make you more tired.
Also, never have a big meal before sleep as this will ruin your sleep. If your new diet includes eating more food at night, then I would try and cut down on this at all costs because this is one of the worst things you can do…[/color]
so your getting 10 hours sleep a night? some people need that much sleep… others need more, others need less… so maybe try sleeping less - there is such a thing as oversleeping (and also undersleeping). So you need to find what works for you.
If you do have another lucid dream, I would suggest trying to “go with the flow” and just continue on with the original plot you were involved with in the dream, you may be consciously aware of whats going on but when you “go with the flow” it becomes very hard to keep that conscious state.
I have found myself a few times feeling tired after a good nights sleep that involved lucid dreaming - i think it was because the lucid dreams were really long and I was using my consciousness to its fullest extent i.e. flying around, using powers, etc etc. So if you try not to use powers and just continue on with the dream story (dont just sit down) it might ease your brain and let it rest more.
There is one other thing you can try which is meditation. Although meditation is linked to increased awareness thus possibly inducing more lucid dreams… it may prove useful in attaining deeper sleep patterns, resting your mind during the day and increased health. I once meditated for an hour before sleep and that night had the best nights sleep ever - even though i didn’t have any LD’s that night I remember having dreams before the REM state - almost directly after initially falling to sleep, and those dreams felt like they went for hours on end.
Hey there you go, your probably waking up when you are in one of the deepest stages in sleep. Like stage 2-4. It’s not that hard to really understand, i know of course you dont know when you are sleeping. But if you wake up at different times in the morning, and see when you are most tired, and see when you are less tired as you awaken. If it’s still not becoming clear, just ask again please, I would very much like to try and explain this.
Awwww, darn! I’m really sorry it didn’t work! Maybe you should go to a sleep lab or something, (a regular doctor will probably think you’re a wacko, laughs) I don’t know, this is just really weird, maybe it IS because you’re waking up at the deepest stage of sleep because when that happens you want nothing more then to just go back to sleep but I’m not sure how you would fix that…hmmmm…I’ll look around…
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Give your lucidity to me! =0) Just concentrate real hard and say “Cherriey now has all my dream awareness.” heheh It might work and then I’ll be rich! … did I just type that out loud?
[color=darkblue]This is an average based on how long it takes to drift into a deep sleep and how long it takes to come out of one (should be 2 hours either way).
The SAS train themselves into being able to go into a deep sleep within minutes so they can actually function well on only 4 hours sleep. I’m not sure how they do it; I’ll have to find that out.
Also it is worse to exceed the recommended amount of sleep than it is too get a little less up to a certain point. I.e. 7 hours is better than 12 believe it or not! 12 just makes you lazy![/color]