Originally Posted by
AL3ZAY
If I told you at 5 years old about lucid dreaming, how much more effort would you have put into practicing it, versus if I had told you at 20 years old when you had a (hypothetical) clear-cut belief that dreaming was pointless, and control not possible, despite the truth that one can lucid dream? Children are highly receptive to learning in their first 5 years, more-so than adults. Children can learn multiple languages easier than an adult can, among other things. That's how you get child prodigies.
Obviously the information being taught has to be valid, but it can be grasped easily if you use the right method. Similar to "brainetics" or "your baby can read" methods of teaching kids to read and perform math in their head. My 5 year old cousin is rather skilled at Street Fighter IV after only 10 hours of teaching him the mechanics of the game the way you'd teach someone who wanted to go pro in the game. I have friends who have played with me for over a year and he is almost as good as them because he understands the game on a mechanics level based on what I taught him. Obviously he's not perfect and makes mistakes and mental mind games get the better of him at times, but he learns fast, and I've learned that's pretty common of children in general. They learn quickly if they are taught in a way that is engaging.