I'm a natural lucid dreamer, and I love to lucid dream as I tend to think of them as night-time adventures. However, I've started having this side-effect which is quite possibly the most annoying thing I've ever had: I'm literally exhausted after lucid dreaming.
Like most people, I have to wake up early in the morning (around 4-5) and I go to sleep at a decent 8-9 o'clock. I've even started to go to sleep earlier to try to counteract this, but I'm still dead-tired. It gets scary, though, when I had a fantastic lucid dream on Sunday and slept for 16 hours. Sixteen hours.
Still tired. I think the one "dreamless" sleep I had saved my life around that Friday as I felt good for once that day, and I've been consciously turning off my lucid dreams since...For the most part, anyhow.
Does anyone else have this problem? Can I stop it? I really love my lucid dreams but I can't walk around like a zombie at work.

Thanks, guys.