It appears that as I get older, my ability to have lucid dreams seems to be diminishing. In the past I used to have lucid dreams without even trying that hard. Presently, I do have lucid dreams, but the intensity seems to have faded somewhat. Along with how often I have them. I hope that it is my attitude that is causing all this and not the latter. I know that age related topics are a sensitive matter for some. So if you ‘elders’ 
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Warm Regards
I am still pretty young ‘22’ but I have been having LD since I was 10 or 11, but I have only known they were called LD in the last 3yrs. Anyway for a while they seemed to be dimishing, but sometimes you will go through patches of non-lucid dreams and then a patch of intense LD. Lately I have been having one every night or more.
I didnt get my first lucid dream until my late twenties. So if the ability to LD did go down, that would mean all the people who never had them as children would never be able to experience them.
I think that there are other factors that cause LD-s frequenzy, not the age. For example: sleeping habits, interest, dream recall…
I can agree with this. If you think about it, in general, adults just have more concers than do children. Kids can go all day thinking abut thier dream realm but with more resposibilities come more things you’re thinking about. Kids are also less defined and more open to what can happen without judgment.
Of course, I’m only assuming that you are in fact buisier than you were as a child.
I really don’t think age matters. I’ve beed LDing since I was 5 or 6, and some people here are up to 20 years older than me who still LD.
I agree, for my childhood, I wasn’t and still not amazingly intelligient in the sense of academic sense, as I am more creative, than interested in maths and so forth. I like the alternative side of life, and dreams have interest me from a young age. Though it has been harder with a higher think and doing workload in the last couple of years since going to university, but I still have time for it. I feel the time when I am dreaming at night whether it is Lucid or not and the time during the day when i recollect the dream or tell it to others, that is like a holiday from the stressful parts of life, without having to spend money and leave the country.
But many people see it that childhood is childhood and adulthood is adulthood, but really aspects of childhood you dream as you become and are a adult. Certainly for me, I preferred been a child than adult. Ok you can say that you loose rights and freedoms, but some say there is always the inner child within everyone. I feel that people should learn more from kids open-mindness than trying to assume that adults are better and have better lives.
I am not sure what other people think but certainly frequency of dreams and the time to do it, seems a major factor than age.
Seems kind of the opposite for me LDs didn’t start until when I was around 12, then again I’m usually a deviant.
I hope they don’t diminish with age! i’m only 14 and mine arent all that clear!
I don’t think It has anything to do with age. Maybe it is due to the change in your lifestyle?
Have to agree with samzen. You get older and get busier, so you can’t concentrate as well. If you have more of a relaxing life without stress, than you can probably LD a bit better.
This is one of those topics that I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating without anyone else really realizing it, since I’ve never really had a good opportunity to make my thoughts public. This seems as good a time as any. 
To begin, I’ve noticed a few trends among LDers; to begin, 15 seems to be a very common age for people to either take up LDing or begin to become proficient in it (not fitting this criterion myself, though, I am less sure as to why). However, some of the most skilled dreamers I have ever encountered (those who can LD at will, WILD effortlessly, etc.), both on this forum and off, seem to have started when they were between 16 and 18 and are now in their late 30s. Again, I am not entirely sure why this would be true, but it seems to be something of a trend present.
However, when these two trends are viewed side-by-side, it would appear that it’s actually quite possible to be skilled at LDing no matter what your age; many dreamers, both young and old, do well with it. Furthermore, there are many, many exceptions to both of those patterns; as such, I am led to believe that the physical effects of age, in neurological terms as well as elsewhere, do not extensively contribute to skill in LDing, though it would be interesting to see a study done (Lucid Lab, anyone? 
). It is true, of course, that adults tend to be busier than children, but those adults that have considerable time to devote to LDing seem to be quite good at it, though they also have often had considerable practice. Truly, it would seem that LDing is no different from any other skill; practice it regularly and you will improve, no matter what your age.
I read somewhere you’re more likely to have LDs naturally when you’re 14 to 17 or something.
Inducing lucid dreams probably has nothing to do with having them naturally, though.