Thread: Does age affect lucidity?

I remember reading an article online (I forgot where, though) and it said there that the older you get, the harder it is to attain lucidity. Is that true?
If yes, how old is 'old' in terms of lucidity?

Well, I use to believe that, but at least for me that is not the case. I new first time about lucic dreaming when I was 57. I have my first lucid 6 month later, and the y frequency was just 12 LD a year. Lately I have like 3 LD a months, but without trying. Last week i have my first WILD , I just enter in a Lucid Dream from the wake state. It just happened, I was not trying to do that. Last night I have a LD that was almost 20 minutes. I Knew that because I checked a clock that is in front of my bed, even I decided to finish it. When I have a lucid now is easy for me to stay dreaming. I do not do any RC, I just know from the beginning that I am dreaming

Oh, I see.. I was thinking maybe the older someone gets, the more stressed they get (what with work, and possibly marriage, and stuff) so the lucidity pattern ceases and probably stops (?)
I was just trying to figure out how the age factor could affect lucidity.

I think have read that stress increases the probability of LDs but Im not sure. as for the age thing I believe age definitely affects your lucidity. I had LDs all the time when i was really little. They were just as common as regular dreams and i still remember them vividly. I didnt know that they were any different from a regular dream though. well i could tell they were different but i didnt know they had a name. But yeah with me at least as Ive gotten older my LD rate has gone down immensly

When I was younger I too recall several lucid moments especially when my dreams are about Harry Potter (I'm a big fan and am obsessed with the thought of Quidditch) and I realized I could (only sometimes) steer the broomsticks and just fly around an open grassy area or sometimes even in my own house's living room, or sometimes I can conjure spells (yes, like the ones in the movie). They're quite vague, though, and it's like... Sometimes I can control them, and the other times I just sort of watch myself like a movie (third person POV). All I'm saying is, these happen quite a lot a few years back and I didn't know what LDs were.

Not a lot of time has passed since then (probably 5-6 years?) and I've only recently found out about LDs and how to induce them, but I'm finding it really hard for me to get into a lucid state now. So then I thought of the age factor...

But no matter, I'll see how many people actually gets affected by their age.

When I was younger I did not have lucid dreams. And I can remember trying out dream control but the attempts were never all that successful, for example, I would try to fly but could never get more then ten or twenty feet off the ground. Now (I am 17) I have lucid dreams all the time (maybe 70% of my dreams are lucid) and my attempts at control are almost always successful. I'm flying all over the place now.

I don't know anything about LDs (just joined, never even knew such a term existed before today) but I imagine that everyone is different when it comes to age. I would think that children would be more likely to experience them but I never did (that I can remember) as a child. Only now that I am nearly an adult.

I've heard this too. I started learning May of this year and I have been very successful. Im 18, so I guess that is relatively young. I think you can have the mind of a young person, even if time has aged your body.

I am sorry for the many mistakes I did when I sent my first message, English is not my first languaje. When people are young probably they can have LD spontaneously and then they forget about that; but I am completely sure that Ldreaming is something than people can learn. From my expirience I think that the more you LD, the more some connections are created inside your brain [I mean all those tiny connencion between brain cells) that helo you to increment the frequency of your LDing.

So.. To briefly conclude, age (physically speaking) does not affect lucidity?

I'm currently still trying to make my first lucid dream a success. Working on my dream recalling too, but I can't seem to get myself to do reality checks or look for dream signs. *Sigh* Gotta try a little harder, I guess. I had a lucid dream about flying on a broomstick once but I barely remember it.

well doing some googling i found another thread on here in which they seemed to have a small amount of scientific bass behind LDs becomeing less common as you age naturally but can be trained to not happen. But like I said I used to LD all the time when i was really young but then when i got about 10 they stopped happening as much

I'm not sure if being a younger age would affect lucidity so much. I've been interested in dreaming since I was young. In most of my dreams I would have control but I usually was never truly lucid. I would often fly and sometimes have super strength. Most of my dreams were not very realistic, in that impossible things often happened in them (they still do) and sometimes I would dream in third person and I was often other characters and not myself. Sometimes when I would be dreaming I would remember events from other dreams, and sometimes I think the events repeated. As I've gotten older I think that my control has gotten better, and the awareness in my dreams.

Now that I'm older I often recognize things that have happened in other dreams, or places I've been. Sometimes when I'm dreaming something will happen and I'll think "That's strange, that usually doesn't happen in my dreams" but then I don't think anything else about it after, and then other times I know what is going to happen. For example, in a recent dream I had I was in the Savannah and I noticed a dead lion and I thought "Hmm, animals usually attack me. I wonder if the lion is really dead" and then the lion got up and attacked me. To prevent the lion from eating me I held its mouth open with my hands, but I was having a bit of trouble holding their mouth open, then I thought "What? I usually have super strength in my dreams." so then it became easier and I just threw the lion off me. Also, in a different dream I had I swam through some extremely gross water, and when I came onto shore I vomited. After that I was like "Woah, that is really weird. I never vomit in my dreams." and then soon after that I woke up because it was morning.

Anyways, I think that the amount of lucid dreams you have depends on how aware you are of your dreams.

I'm not so sure about lucidity, but I'm guessing dream control might be affected, because older people have less of an ability to imagine new things - their minds might be fixed on what they've learned growing up. Unless, of course, the individual in question is rather imaginative and innovative. That's my take.

Hmm... I'm quite an imaginative girl. In fact I was thinking of lucid dreaming as a source of inspiration (I write. A little) for me, since I can just imagine a scene and easily describe it later. That is, when I get to master this.
So... As long as we have a decent ability to visualize and imagine, inconsistent factors like age won't be a concern, right?

So would that mean someone special (Retard) started dreaming, would it be easier for them?

Originally Posted by Raetin

So would that mean someone special (Retard) started dreaming, would it be easier for them?

How so??

because they have the mind of a child.

well, Im 14, and so far almost 30 WILD attempts and nothing happened. I always thought the younger you are the harder it is!