As a child somewhere between the ages of 7 and 10 I could have lucid dreams nightly. Not only did I know I was dreaming but I could do just about anything I wanted. No one ever told me what lucid dreaming was nor do I recall having any discussions with anyone at all about controlling your own dreams. It just happened and came easy to me. I fully understood they weren't ordinary dreams and that it was my own mind controlling them. After the age of 10 I lost the ability to control my dreams and only occasionally am aware that I am dreaming. I have had several lucid dreams since ranging from a vague awareness that I am dreaming to full out content control but very infrequently over the years and nothing like that intense period of dreaming in my youth.

Are children more apt to have lucid dreams then adults? Is this a very common thing with many or most children? (I don't have any of my own to ask )