Thread: Feeling tired.

Now tell me if anyone else notices this after waking from a long night of dreaming..

Whenever I can hit the peak of my lucid dream or wild, I'll find in the morning when I wake I'm tired, even throughout the day I'm sluggish and feel I need more sleep. Could my dreaming have anything to do with this?

Have you been sleeping for longer than usual when you feel that way after dreaming a lot?

Personally, the amount of dreams I remember doesn't affect how tired or sleepy I feel when I wake up or the next day. But, if I sleep too much, then I will feel the way you describe.

Originally Posted by Delta Moon

Now tell me if anyone else notices this after waking from a long night of dreaming..

Whenever I can hit the peak of my lucid dream or wild, I'll find in the morning when I wake I'm tired, even throughout the day I'm sluggish and feel I need more sleep. Could my dreaming have anything to do with this?

If it's a WILD then probably because you don't sleep immediately or soundly and that my guess is you loose sleep. Even with WBTB sleep is also lost.

IMJ

Aah see now I have a good sleeping rutine. I go to sleep at the same time and I wake at the same time. So I know it's not sleeping too long.
It's usually when I have powerful dreams.

I always feel tired when I wake up, regardless of how much sleep I get. But how tired I feel for the rest of the day usually depends on what I'm doing. If I'm just lounging around and not doing much, I'll stay tired, but if I do something fun or active, I feel more energized.

Originally Posted by Delta Moon

Aah see now I have a good sleeping rutine. I go to sleep at the same time and I wake at the same time. So I know it's not sleeping too long.
It's usually when I have powerful dreams.

Then it is your dreaming. I know I felt mental strain when I prolonged the lucid dream for more than it was intended. It was still dreaming but it got more and more straineous like a power drain until I decided to wake up.

IMJ

Originally Posted by Delta Moon

Now tell me if anyone else notices this after waking from a long night of dreaming..

Whenever I can hit the peak of my lucid dream or wild, I'll find in the morning when I wake I'm tired, even throughout the day I'm sluggish and feel I need more sleep. Could my dreaming have anything to do with this?

I don't find this, unless I am using supplements.

Same experience here. But it might have been oversleeping, too.

Peter Caroll wrote in Liber Null & Psychonaught that too much
lucid dreaming can be draining.

When I have vivid dreams ,lucid or not, I wake up energized.

I do not try to control my dreams, I let them play out however they unfold without trying to influence them. When I am lucid I simply remain in the awarenss observing.

I wonder if it is controlling a lucid dream that has an effect on waking up tired and drained?????

It's the opposite for me. When I have good LD's I have energy throughout the day.

Sometimes, when I have a good LD early in the night, I get excited about the possiblity or another--which interferes with falling asleep.

But for me, sleep is sleep--lucid or not--and I feel just as refreshed either way.

I think I have discovered this, too.
Though I can't say for sure which made me feel anemic
throughout the following day--the lucidity or the oversleeping.

I read in Liber null & Psychonaught (I think) that too much lucid dreaming can be draining,
because you don't get the same restorative sleep in lucid dreaming.