Thread: Maintain the ability of lucid dreaming to old age?

Hey,

I searched around the web and found out that you have similar dream length and dream recall as an young person when youre old:

For "dream recall in old age" the medicine-journal "Gesundheit im Internet" tersely distributed the message: "You are dreaming less in old age." This isnt true just like the opinion that you need lesser sleep in old age. One of the evidences is a survey of the swiss population where we were asking: "How frequently are you dreaming?" The answers showed that there was an equal number of old people recalling dreams as good and as bad as young people. This means dream recall wont get inferior at old age. In a research in Mannheim (Mannheim is a city in germany) we were asking old people if the dream recall were gotten worse in comparison when they were younger. The majority of the participants stated that the recall of their dreams were the same, but also there were people were the recall was better or inferior. The dream recall depends at every age on many factors: The interest in dreaming improves the dream recall.

Results are showing that old people dream as much as young people and have a good dream recall. She [Prof. Dr. phil. Inge Strauch] stated after empirical studies that dreams of elders are more based on reality, but have more unknown sorroundings and persons than young persons.

Source: Lebenshorizont Alter - Google Books

Sorry for my poor translation. This means that you can have lucid dreams at old age as good as when you are young? Ive found out on reddit.com/r/neuro that REM sleep doesnt decrease much when you are old. This sound good, doesnt it?