 So a question I get asked all the time is can lucid dreaming make you more tired? Does it make you wake up feeling groggy and lacking energy or does it actually give you energy? Does it actually make you sleep better in a way or does it improve the quality of your sleep in some way? An interesting question and there's kind of two parts to this. So the first part is no, it does not make you more tired. It can't make you more tired because all you're really doing is using your mind to experience a dream you already have in, your conscious mind I should say. So no extra work, so to speak, is being done by your brain. You're really just being aware of the process and awareness doesn't really take much energy compared to just what you were doing anyway. So what that means is that you won't feel any more tired than you usually would. Right? In fact, in many cases, if you have a good lucid dream like one where you're flying around, you're experiencing really cool things in the dream, usually at least for me, I will wake up feeling much more energetic and motivated because I've just had that experience. Your mind and your mindset have an enormous impact on how you feel during the day. If you wake up and tell yourself I have energy, I slept well, you're going to go through that day, you know, bouncing off the walls. However, if you wake up and you see like a sleep tracking thing that says you only got one hour of sleep or something, even if you didn't get just one hour of sleep, you're going to go through the day with much less energy because your mind makes it true. And this is kind of one of the dangers of sleep tracking which I will get onto in another video. But long story short, no lucid dreaming cannot make you more tired. It just, you know, it can feel that way if you interrupt your sleep with something like the wake back to bed technique. This is where it gets interesting. If you lucid dream using the WBTB, wake back to bed, that involves obviously interrupting your sleep, right? You wake up at 3am and then you go back to sleep. That's not great for your ultimate, you know, your overall sleep health and so by interrupting your sleep in that way you will feel more tired the next day. Of course you will, right? But it's not the lucid dream that made you feel more tired because in fact you might not even have a lucid dream. It's really just kind of luck and skill and practice that determines if you will have a lucid dream. It's not the lucid dream as such. It's actually the act of interrupting or sleep that makes you feel more tired. But that doesn't mean that having a lucid dream makes you more tired. It just means that certain techniques will make you feel more tired if you do them regularly.