Thread: LDs and age?

Is it true you lose the ability to have LDs as you age?

Many people report having naturally occuring lucid dreams in their early childhood. I myself for example had a few natural lucid dreams between ages 4 and 7. I doubt that you actually lose the ability when you get older, but mabye you lose the ability to do them naturally, without an induction technique.

I believe I have seen studies that show that people tend to spend less time in REM sleep as they get older, so that means less dreaming overall, and less chance for lucid dreams. But it doesn't mean that you lose the ability to do it -- just that you'll have fewer chances and may have to work harder at it.

That's good to know. Seems like there are a lot of young folks that post here - makes me feel like an old guy at 35

Originally posted by chris_
Is it true you lose the ability to have LDs as you age?

I'd say NO!

I attended a lucid dreaming workshop with LaBerge. I believe he's in his 50's. He claims he can LD any night he tries to.

His 2 assistants were in the late 40's/early 50's. Both report extensive LDs (both WILD and DILD).

Participants ranged from 20s to 70s. Most had at least 1 lucid in a 9 day period.

Hi,

I am 63. I have no problem having lucid dreams.

I had my first lucid dream at about 30 years of age. Right now at 44 years old, I now have more lucid dreams than ever in my life.

I always had Lucid Dreams, but they were far less frequent as a kid. They came naturally maybe once a week. In high school they were almost entirely gone, replaced by really intense non-lucid dreams, and now in college I have about 3 or 4 lucid dreams a week. If I try at it, I can have a lucid every night, but that usually messes me up in the waking life. I get really exhausted, and then my dreams for the next week usually aren't as strong.



So anyway, I think that a person's LD's probably depend on how hard he or she is trying to have an LD. Maybe naturally occurring LD's come easy to children, but I don't think LD's in general have anything to do with how old a person is.

As a kid you believe you can do anything in your dreams. If you maintain those sentiments as an adult, you shouldn't have any sort of problem.

Originally posted by chris_
Is it true you lose the ability to have LDs as you age?

I'm over sixty and I am Lucid Dreaming about as much as I ever had.

and the spiritual quality of my recurrent dream motifs is improving.

it may be just as true in Dream Life as in Real Life, that Life begins at 40.

Now, you youngsters may insist that whatever it is you are experiencing must account for something. but when you are asked at 50 what it is that you believe, like everybody else, you will say "life begins at 40".

i think that children have more lucid dreams because imagination is greater than adults, and they have that amazing child instinct that makes anything seem possible, adults loose this ability through maturity, but if you learn that you have this ability whatever the age then anyone can reach any level of lucid dreaming regardless of age...

Not to mention the fact that most children have virtually no stress.

- -Barrett