Yeah, for some people the cost is just too high. I used to enjoy regular lucid dreams—I’m always dream-aware—but it’s not worth it to deal with fatigue and sleep paralysis.

I regularly have episodes of sleep paralysis anyway, almost any time I sleep on my back. The kind with terror, hallucinations, coming out of it bellowing and attacking things that aren’t there, the whole bit. So unfortunately lucid dreaming isn’t for me.

It’s all kinds of fun though, and I miss it. :(