As much as I enjoy LDs and the prospect of controlling my dreams, I would not like LDs to affect my sleep quality. For those of you who don't know, it's not so much the quantity of which you sleep but the quality of your sleep. i.e. even if you sleep for 8 hours a night, if you have poor sleep quality, you'll always wake up tired, and feel lethargic for the rest of the day.

So my query is: Are there studies that show the affect of Lucid Dreaming on sleep quality? Before I stumbled upon LDs, I noticed that after a heavy night of vivid dreaming, I would always wake up a little more tired than usual. Frequently waking up in the middle of the night etc unintentionally. Now that I'm used to attempting MILDS and WILDS,etc, I find myself waking up several times a night EVERY NIGHT (which I know is the basis of most methods of LDs). Has anyone noticed themselves waking up more tired because of LDs? Less tired? No difference? I go to bed at 11 at night and wake up at 730 in the morning and it's getting really hard for me to get out of bed these days (hitting snooze 3 times in a row, etc). But then again, winter in Australia is just beginning and it could just be my body adapting to the weather.