Please post you're age, number of lucid dreams and how long (approximately) you've been trying to induce lucid dreams. I'm trying to find out if there is any relationship between age and number of lucid dreams.
Thankyou!
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Please post you're age, number of lucid dreams and how long (approximately) you've been trying to induce lucid dreams. I'm trying to find out if there is any relationship between age and number of lucid dreams.
Thankyou!
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Trying to LD since: July 13th, 2004
Success: 2 short LDs in the first week of August. Nothing else.
There's my info. However, I have from time to time also had normal dreams about LD related material (ie. RCs, attempting to become lucid in a ND, general conversations about LDing, etc.)
-Amé
4-13-05 EDIT: I'm up to 7 LDs now. I average about one a month.
Age: 19
Gender: Look under the avatar!
Trying to LD since: I joined DV
Success: I've managed to have approximately five lucid dreams per month in the past three months
Surprise: I'd been having lucid dreams way before I even knew they were called "lucid dreams"; I daresay as young as five or so
Edit: Favorite Cartoon Show: Pretty much anything anime, but otherwise, the Daily Show with John Stewart
Age: 18 (Jan 23 1986)
Gender: Male, at least for now :P
Trying to LD since: Properly since March.
Success: 2 LD's, one many years ago so i disregrad that, and one last week that was so scattered and low level i also disregard it, so technicall 0.
Favourite cartoon show-The family guy.
lol had to add that option Haz2004
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Trying to LD since: 10th October 2004
Success: 3 LD's
age: 14
attempting to LD since when i was... 12
actually LDing since.... i was 13
LDs: 4
Age: 14
Lding for 3 months
6 lds
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8258
Maybe we should use the scientific method.
age: 13
number of ld's: 4
i'v had them since i was 5 :sniper:
age:14
number of LD's:17
time LDing: couple weeks
Age:16
Gender:male
Aproximate # of Lds: 4
Trying since Febuary 14th 2004
well started strong in beging but i lost time/motavation about 3 months in and started again 1 month after that hope that helps
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Approx. Number of LDs: 100, give or take a little(probably take :P)
Trying to LD since: Some where around the middle of February (was 13 at the time)
I have around 3 LDs a night when I'm not in a dry spell, I believe.
Age 32 years.
Lucid dreaming for a little less than two years.
Number of Lucid dreams. Approxomatly 78. one a week If i am lucky.
Note. I am on medication that is known to hinder dreaming up to 40 %. (thought that might be useful info.) - my dream recall an LD's are less but about 15% from what I can tell.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Number of LDs: Approx 30
Trying to LD since: 17
I have around 0-3 lucid dreams per month. Right now im in the so called dry spell.
Age: 16
Trying to Ld since: Joining this site
Approx # of LDs: 30
Age: 24 (by the time this post is read a few times anyways)
Attempting to LD since: I've been studying it on and off for the past few years, in association with other studies that constantly link in with it.
Total number of lucid dreams: That I can recall? None. If any.
How do you plan to use the results of this information? IE, what else is there to your particular study or is it more of a simple statistics game?
Age: 13, but only for a day n_n
Gender: Male
Trying to LD since: May 1st 2004 {I kinda..err..skipped a month :D}
Success: Had about 5 LDs n_n
As it stands at this point of the survey, the everage age is 18.5 years of age
Somewhere in another topic I dug up some information in a psyshology book that put into detail the decrease in REM sleep as you age.
It went from infancy to childhood - adolesence - adulthood -old age.
Not only did the REM sleep decrease but the amount of sleep required for the aging person lessened. I guess that would go hand in hand anyway. Less sleep = less REM.
It also seems evident to me that we have a tremandous amount of very young people who are members of this forum. And if what they claim is true a good portion of them have good lucid dreaming abilities.
age: 17.4 years old as of this posting
gender: male
natural LDer from ~5-12
lost ability at ~12
started trying to have LDs and dream recall at 14-15
started to succeed at 16
high-level LDs when natural: well over 200 with an average of 5 a week...
LDs since relearning: 15 high-level, about 30 low-level, and too many non-lds to count.
If you're a natural.. don't take it for granted, because it may leave you.
And howetzer, I'm pretty sure that as you age, sleep becomes lighter and less time is spent in delta, with more being in REM. I'll double-check my sources though.
Age: 16 years
Trying to LD since: A week and a half ago
Success: 0.5 LD's
This is in accordance from my psychology book from college.Quote:
Originally posted by TheUnknown
And howetzer, I'm pretty sure that as you age, sleep becomes lighter and less time is spent in delta, with more being in REM. I'll double-check my sources though.
From one to five months of age a tremendous amount of time is spent in REM, 40 to 50 percent.
As you age it the actual time spent sleeping decreases but the amount of time spent in REM is relativley similar from 3 years on. Only ranging from 19 to 23% in REM.
Age: 17
Been trying to LD since: Oct 2003
# of LDs: 6 or 7 maybe.
Gender: Male
Age: 17 at the moment
Been trying since: September/october 2004
Approximately 1-2 LD per week. More if lucky, less if unlucky
Or it could be that most people after college dont have time, or perhaps the mindset, for internet message boards... hmmm.
On the other hand, I had way more dreaming capacity up to about my early 20's. I could lucid dream on command about once every three weeks. These days I find it hard if not impossible to enter a lucid dream on command. It still happens, with much less frequency, but it is random and depends on my state of mind and body.
But I am not sure exactly whether its age, increase of responsiblity, more active or dietary, that effect LD.
I think age does have something to do with it, but consider this. While I was having the lucid dreaming, I was taking a lot of vitamins. I don't take many vitamin supplements anymore. Also, I have a lot more on the brain with work, etc. And, another important factor, I am much more active physically and am active at least 3 evenings and on the weekends each week, which tires me out both mentally and physically. So I tend to sleep pretty deep.
Last point. I took a b vitamin last night and had an involuntary dream spin in the middle of the night. Today, i joined the board and found out that others in the target age group use vitamins to assist the LD. I will start taking supplements again, but with more moderation, and let you know my success rate.
cheers and dont do anything diabolical with your scientific study! 8)
Age: 17
Sex: Male
Number of lucid dreams: I'm a natulra, so Im ussaly always semi lcuid in my dreams
As for full blown LD's I dotn really remember... Alot i know that.
Age: Almost 34
Trying to LD since: January, 6th, 2005
Number of Lucid Dreams: 14
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Trying to LD since: I joined DV
Success: Probably one uber-low level LD every week, or two.
I'm gonna push that average up a little HowetzerQuote:
Originally posted by Howetzer
As it stands at this point of the survey, the everage age is 18.5 years of age
Somewhere in another topic I dug up some information in a psyshology book that put into detail the decrease in REM sleep as you age.
It went from infancy to childhood - adolesence - adulthood -old age.
Not only did the REM sleep decrease but the amount of sleep required for the aging person lessened. I guess that would go hand in hand anyway. Less sleep = less REM.
It also seems evident to me that we have a tremandous amount of very young people who are members of this forum. And if what they claim is true a good portion of them have good lucid dreaming abilities.
Age 55 and still alive
Gender Male
LDS 4.5 in the last 3 months
The .5 is the last two I felt I was only half lucid maybe 25% whatever
It's all good. Glad your on the forum and still kicking. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtamer007
I'm gonna push that average up a little Howetzer
I appreciate everyone who is posting in this experiment and the clinical approach that everyone has stuck to----> The facts. This makes this research much easier.
[size=18]Thank you!
Age: 22
Lucid Dreaming for nearly 5 years
Number of lucids: too many to count, hundreds
I hope it's ok for me to post an update like this, but I've gotten alot better since then and didn't want the information to be missed.
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Trying to LD since a bit before February 3, 2004.
I actually have more than one LD a night consistently now. Back then it was only a week long thing. Now I've been having about 3 LDs a night on average, sometimes more and sometimes less, for two months. I've had a little under 200 LDs in the past two months and had 50 LDs between that last update and two months ago, so that means...
Number of LDs: A little under 350
Ok I didn't read much posts on this thread but I think I know what to do
Age: 15
Gender: male
Trying to LD since: somewhere around november, or october 2003
I used to have Ld's almost every night in the summer, I had realy good dream recall too, I think I'm getting worse though, because I tend to have trouble thinking straight, my mind works diffrently from most.
Number of LD's: I would say over 100 in my life time, this goes back to when I was a small child.
Gender : Male
Age 35
LD's total <five
One since joining this site.
I also wanted to say that establishing a correlation between LD ability and age will require understanding how the DV community is or is not representative of the general human population. Probably the most we can hope for is that the sample you get here is representativie of the DV distribution (Seeker has info on this and my archetype data also mirrors the demographic distribution of the site). Possibly we could infer about that subset of Americans who apply themselves to their dream life. But this is where it gets hazy because we need to decide on a statistical test for determining p-values (I am taking a class in regression analysis this fall so I should be able to develop the particular tests soon).
If you plot (Excel works fine for this) your data on a "number of LD's" versus "age" plot and then add a linear trendline you should see an R^2 value of over .96. If the slope of the trendline is positive then the data suggests increased ability with age, if the slope is negative then decreased. It is possible that the real population exhibits a bell shaped ability curve with some optimal age signalling the average peak years for LD ability. If this is your hypothesis then you want to think of fitting a non-linear trendline probably a quadratic polynomial will be sufficient. Again the R^2 should be over .96 for a highly significant result. An R^2 of as little as .75 may give reason for further study. I think both Seeker and Peregrinus can help with plotting and interpreting your data.
Questions of this nature were going to be my next focus so if you would like to work on a survey together I would be more than happy to help in that direction.
Good Luck! 8)
EJ
age : 15
trying to LD since: I joined
LD's: 6-7
Age: 17
Trying to LD: Are you kidding? I have naturally LDed since I was 3!
# of LDs: Multiply 14 1/2 & 365, & you will have your answer!
Age 19
Trying to know I am dreaming when in a dream since very young. Became really interested in it since 2001 through to 2004. And Joined DV in 2005.
Since I have been at this forum I've had about 10 lds.
I'm not exackly sure how many I have had In my whole life somewhere between 25-100.
I can remember atleast 25, I could have had as many as 200.
Age: 18
Gender: Male
LDing since: Well, I was trying to LD for a while more than a year ago, but now I am rekindling my efforts. That started about 2 months ago.
LDs (since I restarted my learning): 2 (one quite short, one extremely short)
Just had a quick look in my dream journal, between 30/06/03 and 19/05/04 I had about 12 LDs.
id love to c a graph with age vs LDs a nite
Age: 16
been LDing sinse i can rmber, now nd then i may have non LDs but no fotern
2LDs anite on average
Age: 46
Gender: Male
LD (total) 5, beginning in April, 2005
LD (since intentionally attempting) 2
The first two were spontaneous, about 2 months apart. I believe that the third was triggered after a discussion about the first two. Once discovering that they could be purposely initiated, it took about 2 weeks for the 4th, and exactly one week later, the last one occurred (but without contol, lost lucidity immediately upon realizing it and awoke).
I hope this study is still active. I'm grateful, because it tends to confirm a personal opinon of greater LD activity in youth. Outstanding forum, great idea.
Best to all,
Legend
I fear there is a flaw here that may be fatal. Not to be Miss Negative Killjoy or anything, but:
When the Internet gets involved there is a high level of anonymity that sometimes (often?) calls veracity into question.
From an initial tally, it would appear that, statistically, every 14 year old is able to achieve lucidity more often and more capably than a monk that devotes every waking and sleeping moment to preparing his mind for his literal entire life. When I was 14, my boyfriend and I were *obsessed* with the concept. Neither he nor I had these levels of 'success'. We reality checked each other. We drilled dream-signs together. We talked each other through it every night before bed. We both geekily wore watches with "Am I dreaming?" stickers across the face. We debated and postulated for countless hours.
Today at 33yo I can find "complete" lucidity probably an average of 1:3 times I go seeking it. My journals show that the best I ever did prior to graduating college was 1:10. I suspect a qualitative study would show that maturity and the more complete mental preparation it allows is a better indicator of success. That doesn't mean I don't think that some of the very young have a tremendous amount of dream control. Lucidity would be hard to argue for in a 4 year old since they are not as self aware (atleast from a legal/moral perspective) whereas dream control seems to come almost naturally.
So it could then be derived that instead of careful mental preparation, the Best Practice is to play X-Box games for a few hours, stress about an upcoming algebra test, worry about what people think of you, fantasize about that girl in class, post on half a dozen forums on the Internet, go to bed and naturally attain lucidity 100% of the time.
I suspect that model will fail when tested... ;)
I'm nearly at a point where I'm going to be ready to open an experiment with a limited call for volunteers. I believe I may be able positively identify the lucid state as it's occuring in a test subject. I think maybe a few of these "365 x 14" folks might like to volunteer.