Do lucid dreamers experience that a upper limit in LD exists, above which it impairs the natural recovering functions of sleep ?
In other terms, if the frequence of LD is very high, does it weaken the repairing and regenerating functions of sleep ?
After lucid dreaming a lot, do lucid dreamers feel tired, and do they feel the need to alternate between nights with normal sleep and nights with LD ?
Could this trouble occur, indeed ? At the present, due to my LD frequence, I don’t have this kind of problem
The jury is still out in the scientific community as to why dreaming exists. Some say it is helpful for getting rid of junk, others say it is wish fulfillment, others say it helps select important brain connections, and still others say it is to make sure the eyes move, keeping the air flow to eyes going while the rest of the body is paralyzed.
Even the reason why we sleep is open to debate. The prevailing belief is that we sleep to regenerate or heal ourselves in some way. Others say it is to conserve energy. I’m inclined toward the latter, since sleep-deprivation studies have been done in which people go without sleep for over 100 hours, sleep in for 14 and then feel fine.
I used to get tired for being lucid all the time but that was high level lucidity, something that is rather rare to me nowadays…s ort of… I dunno.
The thing that pisses me off is waking up from an LD and not being able to go back to sleep, like, last night I succesfully MILDed into my first dream lucid, but, I woke up very quickly and though I was tired I couldn’t fall back asleep for 2 hours.
hard to say if we have selfdefence mechanisms which could protect us from bad effects of too many LDs (if any exists of course).
If we have them - ok, but from another point of view…
…maybe ability of being lucid in our dreams is just too NEW for human race and we just didnt have enough time to “develop” them… (it could be a looooooong process)…
I hope you understand this pulp above --my english sux