Hi
Yes I have experienced breathing problems as a result of lucid dreaming.
It is a while since I experimented with lucid dreams.
I went through a period when I experimented quite a lot with lucid dreams, and I found that my mind kept creating what I regarded as defence mechanisms, in order to make me decide to wake up.
I came to the conclusion that this was because lucid deaming was unnatural - It's quite a long time ago, and I don't know whether I still think that.
At the time, I told quite a few people that lucid dreams caused a variety of 'negative' experiences, but I never read about or encountered anyone who shared my negative experiences with lucid dreams.
The final straw came when, as a result of lucid dreaming, I developed chronic asthma - I had already had asthma as a child, but it had more or less gone -
but lucid dreaming brought it back -
I was however able to cure my asthma after a few days.
Before this happened, I often noticed that in lucid dreams, my breathing seemed laboured - but I never heard of anyone else experiencing anything unpleasant with lucid dreams
My tentative theory is that I am a very focused person, and it could be that too intense awareness causes problems in lucid dreams.
I thought that one's mind being awake within the dream environment, caused deep conflicts, and having a highly focused mind, intensified that conflict.
I think it's a very similar mechanism which normally causes asthma
I don't know if anyone has done any research on the sort of personalities who have problems with lucid dreaming, as hardly anyone complains of problems.
It was always said that introspective people find it a lot easier to become, and to understand the meaning of lucidity, but perhaps if you are too introspective, it may cause other problems - Like mental conflicts
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