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Headaches After Lucid Dreaming

by Rena Sherwood

Lucid dreaming is great, but it can take it out of you physicallyHave you ever had a really incredible dream where you realised you were dreaming, so then you were able to partially or totally take control of the dream? The ability to realise you are dreaming and help control the dream is called lucid dreaming. Although some very lucly people are born with this ability, most of us have had to learn this skill over time. There is a theory that lucid dreaming skills is what gives people the sense that they are astral travelling, or speaking to dream guides, or being visited by spirits.

However you view lucid dreaming, there is one thing that happens to some lucid dreamers like me — you wake up with happy memories, feeling high as a kite, but also with a bad headache. I also tremble as if exhausted and have balalnce problems for the first couple hours of the day. I have no scientific explanation for the headache and exhaustion I feel after lucid dreams. I call these kind of dreams “going travelling”, because how I feel is similar to arriving home at the end of an all-day trip or a few hours at an airport.

I Can’t Be The Only One This Happens To

If the only cure for these headaches, exhaustion and spacey feelings is to stiop lucid dreaming, well, I’d rather put up with the headaches than give up lucid dreaming. The headaches aren’t that bad in comparison to sleep deprivation headache or migraines and tend to go away after you manage breakfast somehow and start moving around.

After much research on and off the web for many years looking for inforamtion about how to better cope physically with the physical problems after a great lucid dream, I’ve discovered that there’s not much out there. This one blogger briefly mentions having a headache after a lucid dream. I do not know if having a personal history of other headache types puts me at more of a risk of getting hadaches and a trippy feeling after lucid dreaming.

Lucid Dreams Helped My Nightmares

One of the reasons that I won’t give up lucid dreaming is that since I started, my nightmares have lessened considerably. I’ve had nightmares since the womb. They are so vivid, so grotesque and so sudden that I wake up and can’t get back to sleep for hours, even days. This, of course, leads to sleep deprivation headaches, which are incredibly painful. So now if I’m being chased, I can turn to the chaser and tell him, her or it where to go and what to do while going there and they do. This gives a great feeling of self-esteem, which can help boost your body’s overall health.

Anybody out there in the Blogospehere have headaches, dizziness and other problems getting back to earth after a lucid dream? How do you cope? I just go about my day and eventually the headache goes away. I’d love to hear from you.

Have a great weekend, everybody.


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