reply to post by SteveR
Actually, I find it can be quite energizing. For the sake of practicality, I tend to sleep for a bit first, before I embark on any techniques that I
use for lucid dreaming. I find that the second sleep cycle produces far more results then trying to walk through the dream door so to speak when I
first go to bed.
My theory is the body and mind do need sleep, perhaps the mind a little less then the body hence the time to go dream. Interrupt said cycle after 4-6
hours, go back to sleep, the body drifts off faster, the mind follows suit but I tend to launch off into what ever dream I fancy.
There are other points of particular interest that I observe, such as the transition from when our physical senses invert in a unique way to perceive
the dream. This inversion of the senses can be trapped in a half-awake/half-asleep state when I can now think not in words, but say in full scale
music, or visualize an object in perfect 3D and rotate it, unfold it, morph it.
Or just push past that state and go into the dream, as the emerging visual and audio effects are really just the inversion of the physical senses as
they become mimicked by what ever mechanism dreams are.
And after a dream, I generally wake up feeling very refreshed, and energized, usually very happy because I never had a bad dream when I knew I was
dreaming it. Remember, dreams are thoughts, and more importantly, your thoughts, just projected in a way that creates the details of the dream.
From an entertaining perspective, I have re-created worlds like Star Wars, or Quake, or what ever movie or video game inspired the dream, and just had
fun with it on many occasions, the potential for fun is quite unlimited.
The list goes on.