I'm gonna cut to the chase. I hear a lot about how young children are supposedly superior lucid dreamers, and can pick up the skill more easily. Is it because of brain chemistry, or because of a child's tendency to take things into question as a child? Or any combination of the above?

I'm not trying to go against the whole 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks' mentality. I am aware that we have some well-aged and very capable lucid dreamers on Dreamviews.

Personally, I recall having extremely vivid dreams as a kid. I also had excellent recall. As a kid, I was not a practicing lucid dreamer, I was unaware that it existed. But I also remember being able to 'continue' dreams. In that I would wake up from a dream one day, then, if I found the dream interesting, have it continue the following night. I know for a fact that it is not nearly as easy for me to simply incubate dreams now. Simply reflecting upon the way those dreams felt and behaved, I feel as though they would have been much more easy to become lucid in than the dreams that I experience now. I guess it had something to do with the fact that the dreams felt naturally very vivid and clear. They also felt longer, as if I were remembering better.

So is it true or not?