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.