Ok, I am glad I found this forum, because I need help! I have had Lucid Dreams now for years, though I never actually knew it was called Lucid Dreams until this morning… The thing is, they are getting out of hand.
Each night I have Lucid Dreams, and they are all pretty intense, which leaves me tired in the mornings. I feel that I am not getting a good nights rest. The only time I have not had Lucid Dreams was when I was at a friends cabin for a few days. Let me tell you, it was bliss.
So, I really want tips on how to NOT have Lucid Dreams. It is all I know how to do nowadays. I just don’t want to be an active part of my dreams or even remember them.
Why don’t you just nap in your dreams? Find somewhere quiet and meditate or something.
But do try and look into it more. It might not be the dreaming making you tired, it’s posible something else is both making you lucid dream and tired at the same time.
I dream lots but after some mornings when I have more dreams than normal I will feel really tired and demotivated the whole day. Although that hasn’t happened to me in a while now.
I will try that, though it is not always easy when I am trying to save the world or some people, which is what most of my dreams are about. The thing is, although I know very well that what I am experiencing is a dream, I enjoy the excitement so much, that I go with the flow and try to play along with my dream characters. Though, I hate the dreams where I try to wake up and I “wake up” and I am not really awake.
When you save the world on a nightly basis, I am no longer so lucky! Though it is not so bad when I have nice… romantic Lucid Dreams.
Just don’t actually do anything in the dreams. Just hang around, admiring the view and chatting with the DC’s. Maybe show off your powers to them.
Maybe do something that could be relaxing - like turn yourself into the sea. Or float around into space (just hand there and look at the pretty sights). May have a nice pick-nick on a cloud with a couple of DC’s.
Basically, just do something that wouldn’t wear you out in anyway.
If you were to try and stop having LD’s, then that may not help. You may carry on having tiring ND’s, which wouod leave you just as tired. And as you wouldn’t have any control over the dreams, you wouldn’t be able to make them relaxing.
I agree, I’d definitely see somebody about it. Sleeping all night and then waking up tired happens to alot of people for alot of reasons…Maybe you should have a sleep study done or somehing?
Hi Noor,
Welcome to the LD4all forum!!
I agree with what has been said above, it’s very possible that there is a third variable that may be having an effect on your lucid frequency and exhaustion - as opposed to lucid dreaming itself causing the exhaustion.
It would be interesting to hear more about your diet, lifestyle, age, and what technique you believe leads you most frequently to lucid dream (ie WILD, MILD etc).
It wouldn’t suprise me when Noor has a busy life. That normally causes these annoying chaotic and tiring dreams.
If your life is busy, but without stress and with variation, this could even cause you to have more LD’s. Like how children are very often lucid.
Maybe it would help to do something creative IRL, like drawing or writing. Maybe this way you don’t need to dream this much. Chaotic dreams are imo, because you have too much to work out as a dream for one night.
I completely agree with what everyone above has said. All I can suggest is that you see a doctor. There are any number of things that can cause you to feel exhausted even though you slept. It could be anything from some sort of sleep disorder or depression to protein deficiency (and a slew of other medical causes). I can tell you that it is not from lucid dreaming! See a doctor! One thing is for sure, your body is trying to tell you that something needs attention!
Try to dream about Lucid Crossroads or whatever, where you can get astral… Why dont you try to train your lucid skills? You can control the whole dream if you are skilled enough… You can make yourself die or something and you can be happy in heaven, etc…
I don’t think you’d have to be a skilled LD’er to kill yourself in a dream (note: this won’t kill you in RL, for anyone worrying ).
Simply shooting yourself in the head, taking poisen (or anything like that really) could ‘kill’ you if you wanted it too (or not, if you didn’t want it too - nothing is set in stone in a dream).
Or maybe you wouldn’t even have to kill yourself. Just fly to Heaven .
Good advice. I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (where your throat relaxes so much during sleep that it gets floppy and closes off), and had it for years before being diagnosed. It left me exhausted all the time. It can also be a strain on your heart.
That is, your lucid dreams might not be making you tired. It might be something else.
Dont you ever say you have too much lucid dreams!!
NEVER!!!
They are ur dreams, so you dont have to save the world everytime or something, just do what you like in them. If you cant control what you do it is only half lucid .
I have had 2 half lucid dreams and i want more…
(and no, i didnt read the complete topic, just to post 6 or something)
I think you’ve gotten a bunch of solid and good responses on your “dilemma” Uhmm… sorry about that.
But truthfully, you really should have yourself looked at and really take into consideration what everyone has said. If you are really truly lucid every single night, and now that you’re informed that YOU are in control, then you should be able to calm those events down.
Wonderful!! There is another person on this planet that shares my views on lucid dreaming. I had my first when I was four. I can still clearly remember trying to convince my friends and siblings that they too could jump on the roof of the house and coast down because it was just a dream. They didn’t believe me and refused to try.
I’m 30 now. My adolescent years were the absolute worst. I finally decided then that I would simply wake up as soon as I began to dream so that I could then hopefully go back to sleep and actually get some rest. I don’t recommend doing that!! I didn’t get any sleep at all. The second I would fall asleep I instantly woke up. All night long!! Even after I tried to stop!!
After I was no longer conditioned to automatically wake up, I still spent years forcing myself awake. Yes there was the “Yes, I’m awake, no damn I’m still dreaming” and lots of trying to move and arm or speak a word out loud, to wake myself, which can be very difficult.
For years I was terrified to take something to make me sleep. I was afraid I would get stuck in the irrational dream world, where buildings could sway in the wind like tree branches and gravity was an option not a law. I remember once when I was a teenager, I had the most horrifying dream. Yet, I was not certain it was a dream. If it was a dream I could make myself wake up but if it wasn’t I was in serious trouble. There was the scariest person I’ve ever seen, he had rats climbing out of his mouth and was chasing me with syringes. I ran up a flight of stairs and went to an open window. I was standing there contemplating whether or not I should jump. My rationalization was if this was a dream I would fly not fall, BUT if this wasn’t a dream I would be committing suicide. I decided to rethink what was happening. How did everything come about? Then as I was trying to remember how exactly I had gotten myself into such a situation I remembered that when I came up the steps I hadn’t exactly climbed the steps I just kind of was teleported up them. Then I realize I was dreaming and woke instantly. So my point is that I was terrified that I would be stuck standing at that window and be able to wake up (and at the time not realizing that I could just make the scary person turn into something a bit more benign like a kitten).
Forcing yourself to wake up also presents other problems. For one you lose a lot more sleep and the absolute worst of the worst is when you force yourself to wake up and you do indeed wake up only to find that you are a step ahead of your body and you lay there paralyzed waiting for your body to catch up.
So anyhow back to my point. If you need a good nights sleep, then take a sleeping pill. I’m not sure why but for some reason I don’t seem to have lucid dreams when I’ve taken an over the counter sleeping pill. Although, this certainly isn’t something you should do every night, but it might do the trick and catch you up on some much needed sleep. As for the rest of the time, just try to float around in your dreams. That is what I try to do now. I use to go flying but it keeps my mind too awake when I would much rather be resting. Not only that, but one time when I was flying the coast line I decide I would take a trip to the moon and look around. Well I’m sure what exactly happened put if felt like someone picked me up and body slammed me back down to the recliner that I had dozed off in (since I wasn’t getting enough sleep at night). I felt like I had the wind knocked right out of me and was startled awake. So, no more moon excursions for me. I just float and relax and this will often put me back in a non-lucid sleep.
Though it is not so bad when I have nice… romantic Lucid Dreams. 
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Uhmm… sorry about that.