Lucid Dreams & Life Style

Let's take two profils :

- Bob is living in holidays, he's not stressed and don't care about what time is it, he have new experiences, talk to new people, and take time to enjoy simple things of life, like sitting in a park or looking at everything around.

- Brian work in a noisy factory, his job consist of doing a repetitive task all day long, in front of a computer, he never talk to people more than few minutes because it's time to go back to work, he's stressed, every new day is a copy of the previous one.

Do you think Bob and Brian can both have lucid dreams ?
Currently I can say "yes" because my lifestyle is mostly like Brian, but I have to work hard to have 1 lucid dream.
But do our lifestyle have an impact on our ability to have lucid dreams more easily ?
If our brain is more stimulated by social interaction, newexperiences and situations, isn't better to do reality check and dettect dream signs in these cases ?
Or do you think it doesn't matter of the environnement and life-style ?

Opinions and experiences are welcome ! :)

While Bob might have slightly better chances of lucid dreaming due to his low stress and laid-back lifestyle, without as much structure. You also started that he enjoys the simple things in life and observing the world around him. (Reality Checking.) However, if he is constantly stimulated, he might have less mental energy at the end of the day, and without such a structured life, he is much more willing to accept a new or unusual scenario as normal.

Brian might find more difficulties with a stressful life, but if he is constantly doing repetitive work, then he might have more mental energy at the end of the day in order to practice lucid dreaming, assuming he has time. With a repetitive lifestyle, he might be more likely to take a new or unusual scenario into question (when it might be a dream.) Also, with the stressful lifestyle might come lack of sleep, large quantities of caffeine or alcohol, all of which can be a detriment to lucid dreaming.

The truth is I don't think the life you live has too much of an impact on lucid dreaming, as both lifestyles you mentioned above seem to have their own benefits and drawbacks. Also, these lifestyles are somewhat unrealistic. Everyone is going to be somewhere on the spectrum in-between these, having aspects of both a structured and stressful working life and a stimulating and dynamic social life.

I firmly believe so long as you maintain a positive attitude, consistent sleep schedule and practice regularly, you will be able to lucid dream no matter what your lifestyle is.

From people that I have met on here, I would say that Bob has a lot less chance to LD, because someone like this doesn't often stick to one thing for a long amount of time. Most people that LD are good at lots of things in life and have more than just this as a hobby, because this isn't as different from other hobbies as people think. I honestly compare LDing more to sports than anything else. I think that myself being a crossover from intellectual things and physical things has helped me immensely.

The better you are at anything, the easier it will be to get good at anything. If you are going to get good at LDing, you will do it in spite of and because of your surroundings. If you are not going to LD, you can blame it on anything. I have a million reasons not to LD, but I do it anyways, because I am a boss. :shadewink: