I’ve had lucid dreams by accident (never tried to induce one). Upon waking up, my head hurts. Do others have the same experience? What are common negative effects of lucid dreams?
I’ve had a few lucid dreams, only by accident. No aftereffects. My difficulty is staying asleep. I always start waking up before I’ve had a good chance to explore the dream world.
The main risk is entering is sleep paralysis state, which itself is benign, but some terrifying sounds can be heard during it and this can cause stress.
Yes, it is to wake up from lucid dream—juts thing about your slleping body.
(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”
I’ve had lucid dreams by accident (never tried to induce one). Upon waking up, my head hurts. Do others have the same experience? What are common negative effects of lucid dreams?
Also, can you control when you wake up?
I’ve had a few lucid dreams, only by accident. No aftereffects. My difficulty is staying asleep. I always start waking up before I’ve had a good chance to explore the dream world.
The main risk is entering is sleep paralysis state, which itself is benign, but some terrifying sounds can be heard during it and this can cause stress.
Yes, it is to wake up from lucid dream—juts thing about your slleping body.
Discussing sleep paralysis might be an infohazard…
The times I’ve entered sleep paralysis it hasn’t bothered me, as I knew what it was.
(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”