Thread: Lucid Dreaming gets harder with age?

Originally Posted by seinfeld55

Hello, I was just reading a wikipedia article that had some kind of tutorial for lucid dreaming, and it said that lucid dreaming gets harder as you get older. It said that it gets harder during the teenage years and after. Is this true? I know that wikipedia isn't always legitimate, but I've been lucid dreaming for several years, and I'm a little freaked out about this. Does anyone know what this is about?

Harder as in? I don't remember having many if any LDs when I was a boy. But have gotten more recently because I tried and I'm way past teenager.... It's both..brain chemistry and the awareness of lucid dreaming. The training or techniques actually alter brain chemistry by changing the way we percieve reality over a long period of using them. Things like reality checks during the day is one major alteration. I used to have issues doing them cause I'd get mental strain but after a long time I gotten used to doing them and the strain is minimal. So I don't believe it has to do with age.
IMJ

Originally Posted by imj

The training or techniques actually alter brain chemistry by changing the way we percieve reality over a long period of using them. Things like reality checks during the day is one major alteration.

whoa can you have a link to any references on that? I'd never heard it but it sounds very interesting! I'd like to learn more about that!

Originally Posted by Shift

whoa can you have a link to any references on that? I'd never heard it but it sounds very interesting! I'd like to learn more about that!

Those reality checks and questioning "Am I Dreaming?" when you obviously know your not is creating Obsessive Compulsive thought patterns. And the disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is linked to brain chemistry so in other words doing those checks and asking if we are dreaming or not on a regular basis is changing the normal brain chemistry to an OCD one to a small degree. The more you believe that you may be in a dream, the deeper the mind is in the Obsessive Compulsive state and will enter into dream state because it has become a high priority aka genuine to check if he or she is in the dream state or not. It's safe as long as the person still knows he's doing the checks to get into the habit of doing them but that reduces the effect that will carry into the dream. As for techs like WILDing, VILD, FILD..etc are more toward the meditative state. You can do a search on a Dr Herbert Benson and a Dr James Austin about the brain when in meditative/relaxative state.

IMJ

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