Thread: Inherited Lucid Dreaming

Originally Posted by Loaf

I couldn't agree less, I can safely say that idea does not represent most dreamers here. I didn't bother getting into lucid dreaming until at a later age when I had the patience to read through material, and the ability to control my sleep patterns. A 5 year old would not understand lucid dreams, let alone develop their own methods. That is really outrageous to even humour.

The bold statement is only an assumption you have made, not fact whatsoever.

At a later age, you had gone how many years without actively pursuing dreaming? How many years without engaging those parts of the mind that lucid dreaming engages? Being a proficient lucid dreamer requires practice just like any other skill one acquires. If you are proficient at something and go 20 years without using that skill, will you be able to use it how you did 20 years ago with great skill and control? No. However if you are still young with all of those faculties of the mind still ripe and only briefly unused, why is it exactly that one could not understand a natural part of our experience as humans, just because they are young? Children don't have the misfortune of having a predisposition belief-wise to something like dreaming, and are curious about everything. Most wonder what it is before they are then told what they believe about dreaming later on in life. If that belief changes, it's only because they found out what they intuitively thought about dreaming in the first place to be true.

Explain to me what is so confounding and complex about lucid dreaming that a 5 year old could not understand it. They can experience it as freely as any adult, so why can they not understand it?

Many of the natural lucid dreamers as they are called, started lucid dreaming in childhood.

Originally Posted by AL3ZAY

The bold statement is only an assumption you have made, not fact whatsoever.

Having lived with and therefore been around a fair share of 5 year olds and had nothing more interesting to talk about than dreams with them, I have talked about lucid dreaming with many, and even tried to get my sister into it and the case is always the same. They don't fully appreciate or understand how to utilize sleeping techniques. You must not be very good with children if you honestly believe a 5 year old has more mental capacity to learn lucid dreaming than an adult; come on, that is just stupid to even suggest.

Originally Posted by Loaf

Having lived with and therefore been around a fair share of 5 year olds and had nothing more interesting to talk about than dreams with them, I have talked about lucid dreaming with many, and even tried to get my sister into it and the case is always the same. They don't fully appreciate or understand how to utilize sleeping techniques. You must not be very good with children if you honestly believe a 5 year old has more mental capacity to learn lucid dreaming than an adult; come on, that is just stupid to even suggest.

I could actually say that about you, because I have had no problem in aiding my younger cousins to lucid dream. For some it is primarily a weekend thing because of school. You cannot explain things in a manner too complex for their current intellect, and the way you explain things needs to engage their imagination right away, so that they actively seek information. If that is not what happens, then you are at fault in your teaching method, not the child. The only sleeping technique they need is WBTB. 6 hours of sleep, 1 hour awake (usually a drawing activity or something to engage their imagination even more), 2 more hours of sleep. I did not specifically state that children have more mental capacity to learn lucid dreaming than an adult. I said they grasp concepts easier than adults. Dreaming, being very imagination based and abstract, is right up a child's curiosity alley. Call it what you will, to each his own.