Lucid Dreamer's Lifestyle and Tiredness

fenvank · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 10 Location: Poland

I hope this qualifies for the 'biology' label.
Anyway, I wonder if you people get tired by practicing lucid dreaming. Oftentimes I think that it's easier to give up lucid dreaming and sleep without disturbances a good night's sleep than to get tired by WBTB and confused in mind by too many dream memories.
My question originated this morning, when I had an alarm clock set for 6:00a.m. in order to wake up for a minute, remind myself I am dreaming, and just barely increase the likelihood of a LD (a poor man's version of WBTB). In the end I woke up at 8, and I must say I felt the consequences of such a small interruption strongly throughout the day. Generally I find breaking up my sleep cycle rather tiresome.
Is this normal? Do you get used to changed sleep habits? Are there any tested methods of reducing sleepiness and increasing one's energy reserves?

nailgirl10 · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:28 am Post subject:

I do WBTB about 5 times a week. If I only have 6 or 7 hours total to sleep I don't try to use the technique, though. I usually get up after 5 or 6 hours, stay up 30-60 minutes and then sleep another 1-2 hours. So, that means the whole process can be up to 9 or 10 hours. This does take time and effort. I usually have no problems getting to sleep in the beginning of the night, or when returning in the morning, so I get restful sleep.

Now, I do this so much that I think it a new normal sleep cycle, and I am surprised it even works for lucidity anymore, but it still does for me. I still want to LD so much that whenever I set my alarm when going to bed at night, I have a hard time setting it for the real (later) wake up time, because I feel I would "waste" a morning, by not doing a WBTB attempt.
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fenvank · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 10 Location: Poland

Thank you for sharing your experience. What you're saying seems reasonable, though of course it requires an unthinkable amount of commmitment and excitement. LD is not for apathetic people. Wink

Still, I wouldn't mind another opinion, another piece of feedback.

Solis Ryne · Joined: 05 Mar 2013 Posts: 110 Location: Trinidad &Tobago

Actually, it wasn't hard for me, I always had the tendency to wake up at five or so in the morning after going to bed at say ten or eleven (sometimes later, yes) but I don't do stay awake for an entire hour, I can't afford that. I will wake up and focus on the dream I just had, tell myself I will recognise I am dreaming and just think about it for a while and go back to sleep (I haven't had a successful WILD - it's hard since am naturally a hyper person and i can never settle) and even if I don't LD, I can have around two more dreams. I have most my LDs in week ends when i don't have to wake up early.

So it isn't much of a problem - it's only a prob when you make it one, But there are mornings now when I dislike having to wake and disturb my dream time, which can be troublesome.

But overall great stuff!

Dreamwalker3076 · Joined: 16 Feb 2013 Posts: 10

Have had some questions about this on my site. Basically, it all depends on the technique you're using. If you interrupt your sleep pattern by setting an alarm etc which is needed for the WBTB technique, then naturally you'll feel slightly more tired the following day.

The trick is to do loads of reality checks and improve your dream recall and stability so that you'll naturally have a lucid dream most nights anyway and don't need to interrupt your sleep pattern!

Hope this helps Smile

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