Hello all, I've been lurking the forum for months but today have finally had my first lucid dream and felt the need to speak up a bit. One of the things I mentioned in my initial posts is teaching young children to lucid dream, and I think it deserves a thread of it's own. I, like many others, had lucid dreams when I was a child but didn't have the knowledge or vocabulary to recognize them, and eventually lost the ability as I grew older. WHAT IF (???) someone had told me to keep exploring those dreams, to create new realities and to learn about myself and the world every night while I sleep? What would my mind have created? I think what it creates now is phenomenal, but as a child there is no firm construct of reality yet. Rather than slowly, painfully relearning the physical laws of the universe in dreamland (in other words, realizing they don't exist in the first place...), a child could tread forward without feeling the need to question reality. What a gift that would have been to know all along....


SO... For those parents out there, what are your views on this and have you told your children about lucid dreaming? I am also asking because I have a deep, wonderful friendship with my older sister's 9-year-old daughter and I want to share the art of lucid dreaming with her. She is incredibly creative and I know she would love to learn it, but I am scared that my sister- who is not nearly as open-minded or as spiritual as I am- may not understand where I am coming from. Any advice?