Thread: Effect of age on the ability to LD

So you're a bit out of practice...it'll come back to you if you keep with it.

Well, I had my first lucid dream at around the age of 4 or 5, I remember being able to choose the monsters in my dreams, discarding the truly scary ones and keeping the ones I liked or being able to modify the ones I wasn't sure about. I never really had to practice anything, I just did it. When I was 13 I discovered that I could lay down for a nap, use a brief meditation technique I had read and go directly into a lucid dream any time I wanted to. I didn't have to do any extensive planning at all, it was just an ability I had. Now even with using all kinds of techniques I have very little control over when I LD. If I had known that I would lose that ability I would definitely have made a conscious effort to keep having LDs throughout the years. I am going to keep trying though...it's just discouraging because before it was so effortless. Thanks for the encouragement.