Thread: LDing and age.

Originally Posted by Loaf

That just proves a lot of people stopped caring about dreams as they got older, or had less time to bother.

Dreaming is what our brain does. Getting old won't change that.

... Have you tried it yet?

The question was about lucid dreaming, not just dreaming in general. A lot of people report that the reason they started having lucid dreams is because as children they had a lot of nightmares and this sparked lucidity. Nightmares are a lot more common in childhood than in adults. Also youth is characterized by an "I can do anything" mentality that fades in adulthood, and I believe this mentality is important in lucid dreaming. It would certainly help to explain the ratio of teenagers to adults on this website.

A lot of people go through a period in youth when they have a lot of sleep walking and sleep talking issues and also lucidity. This usually doesn't persist long and is much less prevalent in adults.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

The question was about lucid dreaming, not just dreaming in general.

Lucid dreaming is just dreaming, but you know you're doing it (as we all know, I don't need to tell you that ). Unless you become one of those old people that isn't even aware of things while they are awake, I doubt there will be a problem.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

A lot of people report that the reason they started having lucid dreams is because as children they had a lot of nightmares and this sparked lucidity.

Those people do it by accident then. They "grow out" of nightmares and forget about lucid dreaming because it was never an interest of theirs in the first place.