Thread: LDing More Common with Children?

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 )

I would have to say yes, IMHO. From what I've read, it seems that most of the "natural" lucid dreamers had their first LD when they were children, myself included.

It is more common with children. In my opinion, children haven't formed the notion of "reality" that most adults have. Their natural curiosity makes them prime subjects for becoming lucid. Also, as people grow up certain things become higher on a list of importance and those things are focused on. Naturally, dreaming becomes a lesser priority and so we begin to lose recall and, for many, our questioning nature that is key to LDing.

That's just my take on the issue.

-Amé

It is most deffinatly accurate to say that children have more dreams and Lucid dreams.
First of the youger you are the more REM sleep you have when dreams accur.

Age
3-5 months -daily sleep = 8-16 hrs + Rem sleep =40%
6-23 months

3-5 years - daily sleep = 9-10 hrs + Rem sleep =20%
10 -13 years

33-45 years

So as you get older you tend to sleep less and have less Rem

But the greater thing I feel is going down the same line as Amethyst Star. The mind has not yet labled and interpreted things. And is very impressionable.

The saying comes to mind -"You can't teach an old dog new tricks".
I mind set is a hard thing to change.

Originally posted by Howetzer
It is most deffinatly accurate to say that children have more dreams and Lucid dreams.
First of the youger you are the more REM sleep you have when dreams accur.

Age
3-5 months -daily sleep = 8-16 hrs + Rem sleep =40%
6-23 months

3-5 years - daily sleep = 9-10 hrs + Rem sleep =20%
10 -13 years

33-45 years

So as you get older you tend to sleep less and have less Rem

But the greater thing I feel is going down the same line as Amethyst Star. The mind has not yet labled and interpreted things. And is very impressionable.

The saying comes to mind -\"You can't teach an old dog new tricks\".
I mind set is a hard thing to change.

Growth Hormone is produced in larger doses when we are young, and diminishes as we get older. As well as the dreams.
Of all the methods people use for Lucid Dreams, all of them contribute to Growth Hormone Release. The underlying factor is that GH induces Lucid Dreams. Eastern Mysticism meets Western Science.
Various causes for GH release.


Hormones and Breathing (Pranayama)
http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/fu...full/122/6/2165

HGH and the Thyroid Gland (Vishuddha Chakra/ Tibetan Dream Induction Area)
http://www.hgh-pro.com/thyroid.html

Fasting
Stimulation of endogenous GH secretion by fasting or administration of GH during other catabolic conditions diminishes protein breakdown.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/f...full/87/12/5668

metabolic challenges such as fasting or cold exposure
http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/89/6/2174

Creatine/Exercise
Creatine stimulates growth hormone
http://www.aminomass.com/equi_amin.html
http://www.creatinemonohydrate.net/creatin...5.html#Featured
http://endo.endojournals.org/cgi/content/a...ract/118/5/1966

During chronic heart failure cardiac creatine levels are depressed. Creatine supplementation to patients with chronic heart failure increases skeletal muscle energy-rich phosphocreatine and performance in regards to strength and endurance.
http://www.bodybuild.com/ans/aacreatine.htm

Meditation and Growth Hormone Stimulation
http://www.atlantis.to/effects-of-hgh.htm

Fibromyalgia and Growth Hormone Deficiency
http://www.myalgia.com/GH_Site/adult_growt..._deficiency.htm

I rememebr when i was young i used to close my eyes and think my deb was floating and fallign into the drema world. fomr there i woudl be in the drema world and just explore and have so much fun. Now that im older, and i knwo luicd dremaing isnt the same as reality, i have chenaged my mehtod somewhat. Wehn i go to sleep i still feel dizzy and like im falling, and i tell myslef im entering my drema world. Its not the smae as when i was kiad, but it gets the job done someitmes. When I was a kid I relaly bleived i was goign to real place where i had magicla powers( infact, i alwayed used ot get annoyed that i didnt have them when i was awake, even today i get a little annoyed when a door woudl clsoe or open for me just by the wave of my hand)