(source epistemic status: mostly experiential and anecdotal from a lay lucid dreamer who knows a few other lucid dreamers)
The common negative effects from my lucid dreaming experiences: - If I’m not careful with how I exert the “influence” I have in the dream, I can “crash” the dream, usually resulting in me waking up and having trouble getting back to sleep for a bit - When I use a lot of influence in a lucid dream, especially to extend the length of a dream, I find that I end up seeming way less rested than normal (but that has proven hard to try and quantify beyond “when in the day do I hit a point of exhaustion”)
A somewhat less common negative effect I keep in mind: - Some people I know have had issues where their nightmares became far more unpleasant after trying to learn lucid dreaming to “fight back”
(source epistemic status: mostly experiential and anecdotal from a lay lucid dreamer who knows a few other lucid dreamers)
The common negative effects from my lucid dreaming experiences:
- If I’m not careful with how I exert the “influence” I have in the dream, I can “crash” the dream, usually resulting in me waking up and having trouble getting back to sleep for a bit
- When I use a lot of influence in a lucid dream, especially to extend the length of a dream, I find that I end up seeming way less rested than normal (but that has proven hard to try and quantify beyond “when in the day do I hit a point of exhaustion”)
A somewhat less common negative effect I keep in mind:
- Some people I know have had issues where their nightmares became far more unpleasant after trying to learn lucid dreaming to “fight back”