Does Age Matter in LD

Hey, does your age affect how well you can LD?

I’m a little annoyed at the moment because i’ve had more than 10 dreams where I realised I was dreaming, but in all of them I fade out of it almost right away. I don’t understand why this happens anymore… perhaps its my age, or something to do with a lack of imagination. Does this happen to anyone else, where they realise they are dreaming with an intial shock, try to do something but can’t move at all and then everything gets blurry and wake up?

That has happend to me a lot, and still does! Good to hear that it is not only me. Read the how to stay lucid turtorial, it did wonders for me, my record now is maybe two minutes!

Cheers

That happens A LOT to me too :neutral:
I think exerience counts more than age.

My most recent LD only lasted a couple of minutes, but it was the first in a month, so I don’t care :tongue:

I think age can affect, but practice makes perfect. I don’t think this has ever happened to me. My normal LD’s usually last 30 mins. My longest is 3 hours, but since i started none were under 10 mins.

i also think age can affect cause when i was about 6-7 years old i could do a wild whenever i wanted (without practise :tongue: ) now when im 13 its almost impossible :cry:

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30 MINS?! If I had a 30 minute lucid dream i’d be over the moon a million times and back :cry:

@NeoMarine:
I do not think the ability to dream lucidly is in any way related to age.
Anyway, do you consider yourself to be too young or too old?! :eh:

I have this fading-out problem after becoming lucid more often than I would like, but there are things I can do if I remember to do them. I think it is a matter of practice, so don’t get discouraged. :smile:

I agree. :mrgreen: And I would probably later tell my grandsons about it (if I should ever have any… :tongue:).

Too old… well, it seems 14 year olds (such as Bright_Eyes_Rocks) have it easier than us 18 year olds… lol

Anyway I am an old fart so its ok i’ll just have to try HARDER!

Well, considering you get more ‘tied’ to reality along the years I’d say age would increase your chance to be able to dream lucidly.

Yea but when you get older your imagination can get pretty poor… like, if you watch tv it will rot your mind!

The tieing to reality is also one of the main reasons why the imagination gets poorer over time.

And I still have to find out how tv-rots your mind it seems.
I spose my view is distorted but I learned more from TV than school. (English for one, while my class was doing Winnieh the Pooh I enjoyed Brave New World)

lol… well, my class was doing Brave New World while i’m at home enjoying Winnie the Pooh… well not Winnie the Pooh, more like Warcraft 3… haha but still you get the point.

I don’t know what you mean by “Tieing to Reality”, but I assume you mean getting more used to things? There is no physical, mental or spirital “tie” to my knowledge…

Well, I suppose you could call it taking reality for granted, babies for instance at first won’t realise the difference between reality and dream, I suppose you could call it “getting accustomed to reality”.

And you would’nt by any chance enjoy a game of Frozen Throne as well? ^^

lol… I went ahead and uninstalled Warcraft 3: TFT recently because I played it too much…

I have a map that I made called Tag You’re It!.. version 2.2 is the latest, you can try it if you like: freewebs.com/nmmaps/

you will need lots of players to make it fun, heh…

heh… I went off topic! oops :peek:

Heheh… I know that map yeah, I used to host it alot.
Great work on the coding of the map, even though the point system gives you too long passwords to type in ^^.

More a fan of TD’s and such these days though.

I think age would probably make a difference in how easy it is to learn lucid dreaming - younger kids would be able to learn it easier than teenagers or adults because that’s when we retain the most information, etc.

There’s also more instances of children getting LD’s because the younger you are, the more REM sleep you get. And LD’s happen mainly in REM.

My friend told his little sister about LDing and then she took a nap. She woke up and told us “she had one of those dream thingys” apparently she saw a unicorn and she realized those don’t exist so she decided she wanted to slide down a rainbow. Yeah whenever i hear “ive been LDing since…” its always “since i was 5” so i would go with a yes on that.

I see what you mean and can definitely agree with that. And yet, couldn’t one argue that it’s easier for those older people to pursue lucid dreaming simply because they’re usually more dedicated and have longer attention spans? I think it really depends on the person. :smile:

Well mt first LD was when i was like 6.It was messed up.These life size legos,covered in alluminum foil were chasing me and some kid when i said “hey im dreaming”,I closed my eyes,opened them and i was awake.