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Inferin

So realistic you get tired?

First post on reddit ; P

Okay everyone's been through those nightmares where you wake up in a cold sweat freaking out with full adrenalin. Lately I've been having a series of realistic lucid dreams where i wake up with muscle fatigue feeling like i seriously did the stuff i did in dreams (fighting, flying, sex etc)

example yesterday (when i made this account) i had a dream, i knew it was a dream but didn't/couldn't(?) control it as it was fun on its own. This was where I fought and had a ridiculously long quest (for a dream) after waking up i couldnt move, i thought it was sleep paralysis at first but after moving a leg i realised it wasn't and it was another of the reoccurences where i had just had a dream and got fatigue. This fatigue isnt always just physical, sometimes i feel emotionally worn out, feeling nothing for awhile, but the worst part is that all my muscles feel as if they were stretched very hard and then let go, almost as if i did really just destroy a floating island with a big sword >.>...

Seriously has any1 else had this happen to them? Has it gotten so bad that you felt like you just ran a marathon? Is it just an effect that my brain has to mess with me?... ive got so many questions >.<

p.s the fatigue is temporary generally about a few minutes of lying down makes it better or just sleeping again even if i walk around it goes away.

tl;dr has anyone woken up from a lucid dream feeling ridculously tired almost as if it actually happened to you?

Posted Jul 10, 2012, 2:02 AM UTC

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dragonbreath015•

I've just started, but this was worrying me a bit too. I've reluctantly started a dream journal (again) - I only ever have nightmares and they tire me out. Does lucid dreaming ever seem to prevent your mind from resting adequately?

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InferinOPLD nut•

No both emotional and physical fatigue always go away after awhile, when it gets srsly bad i just sleep again. You won't exactly feel perfectly rested but it still feels like you did sleep for awhile.

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Deadeye_LeoneLiving The Dream•

The more intense feelings you feel in dreams (which can even be more intense then their waking life counterparts) tend to stay with people for a few minutes after waking up. For example, emotions, pain, fatigue, reactions..etc.

I've never experienced this much, but it seems to be on the normal side, at least somewhat.

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mynameistrollirlLD nerd•

I'd say it might be the time you wake up. How exhausted you feel when you wake up depends mostly on the stage of sleep you were in. Are you waking up directly out of the dream? if so, then that's likely.

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InferinOPLD nut•

I thought everyone wakes up after a lucid dream, well I do as far as I can tell. Ive been able to control dreams properly for about 5 years but these are a recent string of dreams (1 year about) that make me wake up feeling like muscles have been "pulled" and are retracting, I honestly can't explain any better than that. I'm sure this does not relate to tiredness as it happens to just about all dreams that I remember which are generally all lucid.

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mynameistrollirlLD nerd•

That's really interesting. Then my guess is that your brain is so accustomed to lucid dreaming that it is causing your body to have slight physiological response to your dream activities, as in sending your muscles the same hormones as it would if you actually were exercising. At this rate perhaps you could actually use your dreams to exercise in hour sleep...

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[deleted]•

This has always been a problem for me. Its annoying especially since I always dream vividly when I go back to sleep after waking up in the morning, and of course the only way to deal with this issue for me is to go back to sleep. So its like playing a gamble. Will I slip into a timeless dream and have to go on a quest that takes multiple days? Will I have to wrestle wiz khalifa? Or am I going to have to run from a goddamn demi god again? Who knows, its fun at times, but it can be obnoxious as well. Wouldn't trade it for the world though.

You can kind of choose to not go lucid in a dream, but you can't really make them less vivid. I guess you could drown your dream concious in drugs, but that starts a different stew of issues.

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InferinOPLD nut•

Maybe I didn't quite portray that it doesn't feel bad having post muscle fatigue, there's no pain but I'm just curious on why it's happening and whether other people feel this

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ipconfiggedStill trying•

I've had dreams where I've done something really morally wrong or something that's against my nature. Sometimes this stays with me all throughout the day and it takes me forever to figure out why I'm upset. I then remember that I was dreaming and go on my merry way :).

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