It can be a range of things, stress, depression, lack of motivation. Or perhaps it is what you are eating, lack of certain chemicals, or excess thereof can cause detrimental effects on dream vividness, recall, and even awareness which in turn reduces lucidity, natural or not. As for getting too old, if you are in your late teens or older, you are past the big decrease of REM, from now till death you will need less sleep, but your REM only reduces a very small amount of that per year, pretty much the same actually.
As for a question to others reading this, when do you have the most vivid dreams, and best lucids? Is it DURING REM, or around it, for example stages 3 and 4? I always thought it was in REM, but in a recent college psychology class they said that stages 3 and 4 are where you have the most vivid dreams, and it is extremely easy to wake up in REM. I question, because they seemed to be doubtful about allot of stuff when it came to sleep, so it would be nice to have some ideas from here. If the psych's were right, then I guess yeah lucidity goes down with age a LOT.
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