Kids and LD

[Lowercase Society]

I have come up with a theory. I think kids, younger than say...13 have natural lucid dreams if they know about controlling them. Or to rephrase...it is EASIER for them to learn, as it is easier for them to learn how to speak a language, snowboard, among other things.

[Corkdog]

the kids and LD thing is what i think. I am 12 and i have lucid dreams every time i go to sleep.

[Howie]

Younger Kids minds are much more impressoinable. For a lack of a better word, their brains have not yet been tainted. Altered as much by others beliefs & thoughts. Some doctors use lucid dreaming with young minds in etempt to overcome hurdles - nightmares-self esteem problems, etc. I wish I were young again

[Lowercase Society]

This guy named Brandon Boyd learned when he was a kid...his mom told him, if he was in a scarry dream to snap his fingers 3 times, and on the 3rd time he would wake up...thats how he started learning, at a young age! DAMMIT, why couldn't this have happened to me!

[ffx-dreamz]

Speak for yourself lowercase, but being young sure as hell doesn't help me...

[Ev]

Indeed, I wish I would've learn this at young age... I'll certainly train my kids to do LD...

[Lowercase Society]

Originally posted by ffx-dreamz Speak for yourself lowercase, but being young sure as hell doesn't help me... Haha, dude, im talking about younger than 13...kids DO LEARN FASTER than adults... Take language for instance. If a 5 year old tries to learn a language, compared to a 50 year old it would be SO MUCH EASIER. The 50 year old has been speaking the same language for 50 years, with the same mouth movements, and same accents...the 5 year old, only for 5 years, they pick up stuff so much easier... My little sister, here in greece, has been here just as long as me, and she knows WAY MORE than i do...

[Umbrasquall]

I thought about this as being the case too. For example, it's usually kids that you tell the well-known RC to. The bit with pinching yourself to see if it hurts and all that. You don't see adults talking about this RC with other adults. Kids are just more open and more built for LD I think.

[Lowercase Society]

well some people feel pain in dreams...although pain in my dreams is different; kind of blurred.

[Umbrasquall]

I guess pain is lessened or something. (I got shot with a mg and it felt and looked like mosquito bites) If you are lucid you can probably stop pain.

[Corkdog]

yeah. I had a dream the other night where i was dying of an accidental suicide and my heart was swell up and there was a huge bump in my chest and it felt very painful

[lucidreality]

Originally posted by Lowercase Society well some people feel pain in dreams...although pain in my dreams is different; kind of blurred. i feel very realistic pain to an extent. if i'm punched, kicked, whatever it will feel real. if i'm shot it wont be any worse than being punched. cramps are the worst in ld's. they are extremely real.

[Umbrasquall]

Wow, I guess I'm lucky that I don't feel much pain in my dreams then. It probably is different for everyone. Maybe you can do experiments like saying to yourself: 'This does not hurt, I can't feel pain because it is a dream.' to reaffirm your situation when you get hurt in a dream.

[Alaurast78]

Well I do agree that children learn faster. They also have a naturally higher level of melatonin. I'm sure that has something to do with higher control and night terrors that seem to be so common in kids. Just my conclusion. I also wish I had learned more control over my dreams as a kid but then again I never had nightmares so it was not a priority back then!

[Identity X]

Personally, I think kids should have compulsory LD lessons. It enhances life the same way Sex Education lessons do!

[YULAW]

Yah I would like to say that kids are more prone to LD's but I don't think that is the case. But has anyone ever took the time out to think why is it that some people are natural and some aren't what is it that seperates the two individuals? I would've said perhaps traits from a past generation but some people would have parents that can LD and some parents doesn't have the same ability. BUT WAIT!!! what about the ancestors? Just like some things in natural gene construction/makeup sometimes jumps generations maybe the same applies here. What do you all think?

[Sand-Man]

Yah we are because im 12 and ive been having lots of lucids so i guess the older we get the more we have I guess but I am alot more than 12 In my head lol cause the stuff I think bout every teen does lol.

[Remus]

I'm 12, also...But I've hardly ever had a LD. ><;...I think it really varies. But I think it is more prone to happen without any preporation in kids.

[MentalBakura]

accidental suicide..... How did you manage an accidental suicide?

[Dragon]

That kinda freaks me out cause im not that good at LDing yet and i told my little brother a bit about it when i first saw this site and hes been kinda intrested since. I dont want him to like start LDing and get better then me at it cause then id be jealous.

[Human]

Originally posted by Lowercase Society I have come up with a theory. I think kids, younger than say...13 have natural lucid dreams if they know about controlling them. Or to rephrase...it is EASIER for them to learn, as it is easier for them to learn how to speak a language, snowboard, among other things. Yes, I agree with that. It is a lot of things who is easier to learn when you are young.

[Kitti]

Ya im only fourteen and i just started lucid dreaming well only once but when i was younger i didnt really lucid dream all that much . sometimes lucid dreaming comes to little kids naturally.

[incubusfunkman]

im now 16, i started yoga when i was 9 witch led to meditation,witch led to LDing when i was 12, it was alot easier then, and im sure its alot easier then it is for most people now, but not as easy as it used to be. im glad i began my journey to enlightenment early. im lucky i guess you could say. maybe its because i have abnormal brain patterns that i started early, im always doing things that im not even supposed to know about yet, like the fact that i began smoking pot at age nine. ne way ,yeah things are alot easier when your younger.

[jennyinthesky]

13 and under? Darn, I'm already too old. :/ Maybe that's why before I turned 14 I had two LDs... So I suppose, if you had a child and they had nightmares, you could teach them to lucid dream, then they might be able to get rid of them. Hmm...

[kufu91]

i think oyu need self control to have lucid dreams because the only thing you are controling is your own mind. little kids have more self control so this might be the reason. this would also explain why controlling memories (dream recall) would help people have lucid dreams