 Alright, so I thought I'd talk about the brain and sort of the age at which it stops developing itself So right off the bat, let's just talk about this really directly The brain is a very complicated thing, so we don't really fully understand the brain But what we do know so far is that at the ages between 25 and 35 your brain will stop developing in terms of like a physical thing But that doesn't mean that you stop developing neural connections and this is a really important thing to understand especially if you want to change or improve any part of yourself, so The way it works in a word is called neuroplasticity This means it's the idea that your neural connections can change or be adapted over time Depending on which ones you use the most This is a fundamental concept, which is it's massively important for anything you want to achieve in life Basically in layman's terms the things that you do the most Your your brain will strengthen those connections and make them easier to use the things that you don't do as often Your connections will get weaker and it'll become harder to do those things This is at the basis of all sort of habit building habit forming and life-changing things Is this this idea that the things that you do often Become easier and you can you become better at them and the things you do less often become harder And you become worse at them So say if you're trying to give up smoking, right? The the only thing you need to concentrate on doing obviously is not smoking, right? But every time that you have a relapse and have that last cigarette again You're just strengthening the neural connections making it even harder to give up when you next try and give up Well, you know the next time no matter what you're trying to achieve Whether it's trying to give up a bad habit or establish a new positive habit You've got to understand that this idea of neural connections is really powerful So the things the things that you do often Your brain will literally make those connections stronger So all you need to do is focus on doing small things every day that you want to become good at If you want to become fluent in language or if you want to become, you know, the next world-class athlete Obviously that takes a lot more work than becoming fluent in a language But the point is that if you focus on doing things every single day Over time the the results that you're going to get are going to be astounding because your your brain will form much Stronger connections fairly quickly Your brain is very liquid and transient and you can easily change the connections if you just do something Repeatedly every single day now how this relates to lucid dreaming is that you're at the moment if you're a beginner And if you've never done this your neural connections for lucid dreaming and for self-awareness Will be very weak and that's why it's difficult for you because you're forming a new habit any new habit Is hard to form so when you're a beginner you need to focus on making sure that you're consistent with your efforts You can't just do this you can't just do this like over a weekend or just one time You need to make sure you do these things every single day from now on Otherwise every day that you don't do these things and I'm gonna get on to what things you need to practice in a minute But every day you don't do these things you're gonna become even weaker at lucid dreaming and it's gonna become even harder to get there So what things do I mean? Well, if you do reality checks every day if you write your dreams down every morning And if you constantly meditate in the morning as soon as you wake up This is gonna strengthen those neural connections associated with remembering your dreams being self-aware and Realizing and recognizing when you're in a dream. This is neuroplasticity as finest All you need to do is those things every single day if you do them every single day And if you make sure you put in the effort to do these these even though They're small things if you make sure to put in the effort to do them every single day You're gonna become better at the thing You're gonna become a lucid dreamer and the neural connections in your brain will physically rewire themselves to make it easier for you All you need to do is just commit to those tiny micro actions every single day and your brain will do the rest and then suddenly in a Years time you'll look back on today, and you'll think how did I ever find it? So difficult what was I doing and all you were doing is just not doing the small tasks every day You just weren't building the neural connection and once you've built this connection guys once you've actually trained your brain to Have a certain neural pathway whether it's for lucid dreaming giving up smoking Establishing a good habit or waking up early whatever it is Your brain will work with you, and it will make it so much easier for you that eventually you won't even need to try You won't even need to Attempt to get out of bed early because you'll already be doing it automatically. It'll be in your memory and your muscle memory You won't even need to think about whether you're gonna smoke or not because you won't even the idea won't even cost your mind if you've Eliminated that habit and it's the same with lucid dreaming eventually You won't even need to think about doing reality techs You'll just constantly be on the lookout for things that are strange or you'll constantly be critical and and Aware of the world that you're in to the point where you'll have natural spontaneous lucid dreams and you've probably heard of those and those lucky people who claim they're just natural lucid dreamers They're probably not lucky in that sense. They're probably just They've probably just over the you know a long period of time done those things without thinking about it. They've probably done things like Consider what their dreams are at the very least or you know, write their dreams down They've probably done things like constantly be aware for certain things You'll find that the natural lucid dreamers or the spontaneous lucid dreamers. They are very critical as people They're very aware and they sort of question things and they ask questions. They're curious and That's what it is. It's not random. It's not it's not natural in in that sense of the word It's just that they've been practicing those things and strengthening those neural pathways, whether it's for remembering dreams being critical and aware of the world or Questioning things and being curious. These are the things that you know, you should be doing if you want to lose a dream So that's why these these people are natural lucid dreamers Anyway, I thought I would also mention my patreon page, which is something I've completely neglected for a number of years Basically, if you do enjoy this channel and if you're one of my regular viewers I would highly encourage you to donate just a dollar a month and this will help me to produce better content for you or help To fund things like the new camera that I've that I've got as well and it will just help to It'll help to build the channel and give me more time to devote to you guys and answering questions Replying to comments this sort of stuff and it will help me just to know that you appreciate the content I make anyway Anyway, there's also a Udemy course You can check out the link in the description if you if you want to get started with those dreaming I'd highly encourage you to check out the Udemy course, which is a video lesson series thing I think that's about it for today guys done