Thread: What Causes That After-ld Feeling?

You know that strange sort of drowy yet at the same time fully awake, tingly feeling in you head after and LD? Thats not a very good way of putting it, but do you know what I mean?

What causes that? Would it be addrenaline, the fact that your minds been doing overtime, the fact that you might be using differnt/unknown regions of the brain or other?

wouldnt know..I always feel refreshed after a lucid dream, once reason why I desire them!

Originally Posted by juroara

wouldnt know..I always feel refreshed after a lucid dream, once reason why I desire them!
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Same. I feel calm and happy!

"refreshed" is a good way to put it

Originally Posted by arby

You know that strange sort of drowy yet at the same time fully awake, tingly feeling in you head after and LD? Thats not a very good way of putting it, but do you know what I mean?

What causes that? Would it be addrenaline, the fact that your minds been doing overtime, the fact that you might be using differnt/unknown regions of the brain or other?
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I get that after nightmares, always. Is it on the back of your head around your cerebellum?

Originally Posted by Zakar

I get that after nightmares, always. Is it on the back of your head around your cerebellum?
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yeah, pretty much.

Adrenaline probably.

Originally Posted by arby

the fact that your minds been doing overtime[/b]

I like that thought.

I feel lots of things when waking from a lucid...sometimes I feel amazingly refreshed and happy...sometimes, if I've been in and out of lucids for a few hours...I'll become exhausted. But yeah I assume that the happy tingly feeling is from adrenaline/dopamine release?

For me its just excitement that I had a lucid.

Hmm. Perhaps it is because your body was resting while your mind wasn't. Or something like that...

massive seratonin/dopamine cascade? beats me, but it feels cool. A sense of total completion and peace usually, doubled with a full-body buzz.

I think of it as just the transition. I often get that horrible feeling as if great music was recorded on a tape recorder from 1957, as if the awesome clarity of my dream was being lost as I woke up...like remembering it with my physical brain somehow made it lose it's realism.

The best analogy I can give is it seems as though my lucid dream is water: clear, ever changing and real...yet when I wake up and recall, it's as if I see that water flash freeze in an instant...giving me that "tingly" feeling and a return to a solid state. I hate that.

Wow this is my first post in like... 4 months or so. Woo. It's been a while since I had a lucid dream... I don't even remember. There's a reason for all of this, and it kind of relates to this topic which is why I'm gonna post. For my first LD's I would definitely have to agree with the profound sense of completeness and satisfaction feeling. Eventually I got into the habit of always seeking out a dream character that you can read about in the favorite LD link in my sig. I very rarely succeeded at this and I always woke up with a profound sense of loss and incompletion. And all of my LD's were filled with stress and urgency over this. Eventually I got to the point where I just gave up. I rarely have LD's anymore, well compared with the frequency I used to have them. I have one probably twice a month now. I remember all my dreams quite well, and I've been having lots of nightmares lately. I kind of want to get back into LD'ing because of that fact, but at the same time I feel I'll probably fall into the same thing as before.