I was just wondering if there was any scientific explanation to why children usually achieve lucidity so much easier than adults.
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Maybe because kids don’t have such developed rationalising skills. In adult dreams we seem to find ways to explain away pretty much everything?
i think thatkids have less stress but that we have alot more then some people think either way we seem to care more about dreams than adults
I don’t think it’s necessarily about stress, people will usually have something stressing them in some way. Whether it’s where the next meal is coming from, whether the next pay-check will come in before the next bill, or what somebody else thought of them. I think it has more to do with what a persons focus is on. An adult is most likely focusing on life and external factors, so they can survive. A child is most likely focusing much more on themselves, and their internal world and how it relates to the external one, even if it is just sub-conscious. Dreams really are part of our internal world.
Due to believing as I do above, I don’t think children are inherently better at lucid dreaming for any other reason than their train of thought is more given to it. We have control over our train of thought and can change it.
As a kid lets say 1st grade i remember dreaming I was at school and a monster attack me and I would know it was a dream so I could always say “Wake Up!” and i would be able to wake my self up.
I remember having more vivid , lucid and longer dreams. I think kids are better at dreaming thats why people around their 40s say they don’t dream no more. We are born with it and as we grow older we forget it. Just a theory…
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Hmm…interesting theory. 
I’m not that far from kid-dom, and I can actually remember more of my dreams…with better quality, I might add. 
Good luck. I haven’t had any lucid dreams as a kid, though. 
Lucky kids. 
I think that’s how it might go for alot of people. Dreams must have a larger impact on a child yes. However, anyone can have a vivid long dream like they use too. It seems sometimes though that adults will have to train themselves more to recover that, escpecially if they haven’t focused on dreaming during a large portion of their lives. A child will be more reluctant to discuss and share it as well, seeming it must be memorable thing, specifically if it’s frightening.
As a young kid, the world is still new to you, and you do whatever you can to explore the world - to the little things.
Young kids explore the leaf on the sidewalk, the bug in the garden, and the lightbulb in their room.
The thing they use, is constantly awareness - which goes on to dreaming too.
When we get older, we already know the world,
We already know the leaf is green, we already know that they are plenty of bugs, and we don’t find the lightbulb in our room interesting anymore.
We take anything for granted - which goes on to dreaming too.
As adults it’s nearly impossible to have the kids awareness if you keep a routine,
A possibility, is to go to the moon, and explore it.
Or go to Japan, or even take an alternate route to work.
Good luck 
When you become adult you learn to focus only on the necessary - your work, the mortage, the bills to pay etc. and forget exploring what surrounds you, that is, living with awareness.
Moreover, with age people start seeing dreams as some place you don’t belong to, that smacks randomness in your face or gives you nightmares, instead of a place to discover your true self, so even if they still dream, they don’t make any effort to remember them, and start thinking they don’t dream at all anymore.
It is indeed possible to get back on the LD road, but it takes a lot of conscious effort and sometimes it requires some 180° turns in the way someone thinks, which can be difficult to accept. (For example, some were running away from their fears, and remembering nightmares could be very painful for them)
It could also be because a childs brain is open and ours are full of crap 
Haha, very true WASD.
The watergun thing was not wierd, it was good that she did … justice !
Also, i’m 13 years old wich still is a kid, but i don’t dream often 
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Still… i will try to improve my DR, and i will struggle to reach LD! 
i had them the same when i was young.
a lot of what you all said makes sence. i used to have ld’s all the time when i was a kid. mostly dreams where i could fly.