What Are Lucid Dreams?

Concerns Linked To Lucid Dreaming

While many individuals have claimed and investigated the benefits of lucid dreaming, they have also investigated and researched the concerns and possible harm of lucid dreaming. The first concern science has about lucid dreaming is the negative effects it can have on quality of sleep. When an individual is somewhere between being asleep and awake, the processes that aim to eliminate toxins from their brain become impaired. Another problem with lucid dreaming is a phenomenon referred to as awareness of sleep paralysis. To keep an individual from acting out what they are doing in their dreams, their body triggers sleep paralysis at night when they are in the REM cycle. When an individual attempts to induce lucid dreaming, they can experience a state between being awake and asleep when their body goes into sleep paralysis, but their mind is awake. Another problem that can occur with lucid dreaming is called dream claustrophobia. Dream claustrophobia is when an individual becomes lucid in a dream they cannot wake up from and cannot manipulate.