Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think I´ll try autosuggestion and not trying to remember my dreams.
Lucid dreaming depletes seretonin levels? I never heard of it. I don’t believe in it either. It’s dreaming were talking about here, it’s natural.
Where did you read about it?
Just to flip it around a bit, Suppose the subjects in the supposed study, were already getting depressed and as a means of making up for the unsatisfactory real life start to get obsessed with lucid dreaming and do that alot. Not dealing with their problems, getting more depressed and realising this in the end, and then seeing what they do- lucid dreaming. It is blamed for something that was happening anyway…
I’m just theorising here though.
THe good thing about the whole deal is that if lucid dreaming causes excessive release of seretonin it’s probably not that much. Not like MDMA wich really causes the release of seretonin os much that scientists fear you can lose the ability to reproduce it.
I hardly think that is going to be an issue with lucid dreaming at all seeing as it’s a natural process. If there is any depletion at all it should level out if you can avoid lucid dreaming for a while. Wich is your concern now.
The only thing you can really do is to either try autosuggesting or nothing at all. And not obsessing about it.
This is the page: geocities.com/alex_sumner/lucid2.htm
I realize it might not be too reliable, but the info there just made sense to me. I started having this weird dreamlike feeling coupled with depression around the same time I started lucid dreaming (nightly). And there was a period of time when I was temporarily cured, I had no memory of lucid dreams during that time.
Actually, lucid dreaming does not deplete your seretonin level, masturbating does (Right?). And low seretonin level gives you nothing but bad recall (In this matter if speaking)which would mean it’d be nearly impossible to have lucid dreams often since you wouldn’t remember them.
Okay. I read some of that, looked through it. Interesting stuff. I’m not into magick and all that.
I still don’t believe there is any danger. The author mentions REM sleep depletes seretonin. I don’t know about that, but I think the main point is that, I don’t think lucid dreaming does anything to your REM sleep.
And the recommendation of only 2 nights per lunar month that have to be consecutve to even attempt lucdi dreaming. That may be playing it a little too safe. I have an “average” of 2 LDs a week, with much variation. I should be be progressively getting more depressed, I feel like I am progressively getting happier.
More importantly, I always feel good the day after I have a lucid dream, I should feel the worst right after it if it was draining me of seretonin, right? I think most people would say the same thing too.
I have heard that depressed people have more REM sleep.
Again with the flipping it around, perhaps those who have more REM sleep and so confronted with dreams more develope an interest in dreams more easily. I sure know my interest in dreams comes from noticing my own.
want to get rid of those dreams too…never wanted to experience that , just came out of nowhere…recently i have been dreaming about my grandmum who died 3 years ago, and who never talks but always look at me as if she wanted to say…OF COURSE I SHOULD NOT B HERE, I DIED…and its really SCARY! i dont believe in any metaphisical stuff, im very down to earth but this is really freaking me out.
I am always paralysed when waking up and i always experience the … “fake wake up”… its horrible,
Note to [InsertAstralNameHere]: You probably know this by now but it’s not necessarily depression that you have but depersonalization/derealization disorder.
I know this topic was started several years ago, but it’s also something I’ve struggled with and have been reading ever since. The problem is dreams are not as well researched as we would like and they are also hard to research.
I too have read that lucid dreaming depletes serotonin, but what I wanted to share is that I have come a crossed a few ways to help those other people that would like a break from LDing.
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Many of you have probably read about the glasses that filter out blue light. Worn by people who have problems falling asleep, since the blue light suppresses Melatonin production. My first suggestion is for heavy sleepers, people who have problems waking up, or people with sleeping disorders brought on my deep sleep.
Add a blue light to your bed room when you sleep. This will create a lighter sleep for all in the room. This worked a bit of me. Increased the time it took me to fall asleep but it still worked. However, I had to give this up because my boyfriend was having problems getting a full night’s sleep.
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The second thing is I am supplementing my diet with whey protein. Tonnes of amino acids and extra protein (especially for a girl who doesn’t care for meat) but why I started this is because I read that the amino acid tryptophan (yes also theorized to help certain types of depression) and be converted into 5-HT (serotonin) therefore breaking the blood brain border. The idea was to give the body enough serotonin to offset the melatoin that is being converted. Ironically the first thing I read about whey protein was for inducing LD, but I figured it will either help by either giving me less dreams or by helping me wake up, or not help and give me more control or more vivid dreams. Either way it’s still beneficial to the body, if not the sleep.
I’ve been taking it for about a month and I find taking it before bed is best. It helps me prepare for sleep, winding me down, despite having slept more than I should have the night before and it also helps with the time it takes to wake up enough to function properly is reduced. Soon I am going to switch to half a dose at night and half in the morning, to see if it yields better results.
*Note I still have 1-2 lucid dreams per night, usually in the morning, but it doesn’t influence my waking day as much and the dreams themselves have a more pleasant effect, ie. no headaches, less sleep paralysis, normal dreams, and sometimes I’m awake when I turn off my alarm. The only thing I have ever found to wake me up 100% of the time is my dog whining to go outside. 
for the alarm clock that won’t turn off, until you are awake. I know I have only described what my problems are in a round about way, but I’m will to answer any questions.
Hope this helps.
I apologize if someone has already suggested this, but I do not have the time to read through 6 pages of block text.
Have you tried talking to a DC / DG / SG about your problem? Simply say that you wish to sleep, if you have the power to control your dreams, you have the power to end it.
Once again, sorry if this has already been suggested.
You’re just the man I’m looking for. PM me and we’ll talk about it.
Just to let you know, this topic is 4 years old and the original poster hasn’t been here since then 
/me facepalms
I only just noticed.
Damn, I would give my soul just if someone gave me his diet plan…
Would have been nice if we would have figured out what suddenly caused this lucid dream state of this guy. Anomalies usually are a great opportunity to learn more about a subject.
My best guess would have been that his “change of life style” might have a caused compulsive thinking about food or perhaps non-smoking. Like anorexia, but in his case not a compulsive thought about fat and calories, but a compulsive thought in WL that worked like a RC in his dreams. Most people with very frequent luid dreams have some sort of compulsive thought in WL that triggers lucid dreams in their sleep, like “how did I get here?”, “is this real?” or checking their watch every minute.
I have a quick question about the blue light thing, I recently have been trying WILD a ton, I often get really close (Sounds, swirling colors and all that) But I always mess up and move after reaching 200 (I do the 1 I’m dreaming, 2 I’m dreaming and so on). The computer in my room, the keyboard and the mouse all glow blue, and are on as I fall asleep. Unless I read your post horribly wrong that would mean it would be counter productive to my lucid dreaming attempts and dream recall to sleep with them on. So should I turn off the blue lights as I go to bed, would it help a lot?
Sorry about posting in a zombie thread, I just thought it would be easier to post it here than creating a new thread.
You could just experiment with it. Turn off the monitor, all lights and see if it makes a difference.
You should notice a deeper sleep without it, whether that helps your LDing, I don’t know.
…dont know what to think of this thread, i mean…this guy probably is also registered at some erectile-dysfunction forum, starting threads like “how can i stop having strong erections” or so…
@ Neo You can’t just assume everyone in a liar, sometimes you just have to hope they have good intentions when asking these kind of questions.
@Lantzzy thanks, I’ll start trying and expermenting with the lights 
from reading the comments here obviously i am not the only one who thinks this thread stinks a little, if this person isnt (or “wasnt”, he doesnt even visit this forum anymore) just making fun and really has that problem, then its surely not him being constantly lucid, but rather him just not being able to USE his lucid dreams to his advantage.
but from a psychological point of view this thread is paradox to begin with, i mean just examine the main problem of this guy, he is soooo bored with his lucid dreams that he wants them to stop. Its a miracle to me how a person who finds his lucid dreams soooooo boring and asking to stop them, doesnt complain that his REAL LIFE isnt sooooo boring as well and how to stop it.
lets pretend this guy is all real, FOR SURE his problem arent his lucid dreams, his problems are somewhere else then…you just dont feel tired all day long because you were lucid the whole night, but you probably feel so tired when you constantly wake up from lucid dreams but then again youre not tired from lucid dreams, youre tired from all those sleep interruptions, someone who has expierience with lucid dreams would know that but obviously this guy doesnt has any.
…and there are even more odditities in his claims but i think i better stop coz probably someone thinks i am steppin on his toes…
@Neo: The person that originally posted this thread may no longer be around, but I AM and I have the same problem. Constantly having lucid dreams is extremely tiring. Maybe you shouldn’t disrespect people when you have idea about their problems.
Maybe my dreams were tiring because I was usually a ninja or some Gerneral/Leader in a war. Or it could just be that being aware and making decisions in your dreams is just as exhausting as it is in real life, except you can’t just climb into bed at the end of the day and have a great nights sleep that makes all your problems go away.
It’s true that a lot of people are on here because they would like to LD, or at least LD more so it’s easy to understand how you might not be able to see that it’s like everything else in life, You can have too much (possibly with the exception of love).
So what ? In my dreams i often get chased through cornfields, have to climb through ventilation systems, dive in water, i am in middle of wars, sometimes i am fully stressed with fighting aliens and at the same time escaping them on a space-ship which is about to explode…and i am never tired of it nor do i feel tired during the day because of those dreams.
Come on you dont have to make life-important decisions for hours and hours while being lucid in your dream.
Sorry but you come here and blame lucid dreams for your problems with being tired during daytime, thats bullsh**, did you ever thought your actual problems like being tired is something far else than lucid dreams itself ? A lucid dream cant “exhaust” you in any way like a normal dream would exhaust you, if lucid dreams would exhaust you than normal dreams would exhaust you as well…probably even more because in a normal dream youre at times stressed and scared but being lucid youre all relaxed and easy, feeling well and great and feeling even better when you wake up.
You and this guy seem to suffer some serious problem and obviosly try to blame lucid dreams, sorry i cant follow you and i have to say i feel like being bullshitted if someone tells me “my dreams exhaust me and then i am tired during daytime”, i absolutely cant follow that.