Thread: Teaching a 7 year old.

Originally Posted by Niddiboy

well Diz m8, i think its class that you are starting to teach ur lil brother. i know that at his age i had nightmares nearly every night which was pretty bad, one reason why im still afraid of the dark, over active miagination and all that jazz!

Well i have started to teach my little cousin whos only 3 about 'wakey dreams' as he calls them. I didnt really believe that he had one but then he explained it pretty well, and the theme of his was similar to my 1st lucid dream when i was 5, a nightmare about dinosaurs.

The way i talked to him was as if i was telling him about a really cool TV show but that he could be in it. I also said that when he was in the 'wakey dream' he can do what ever he wants, go to the moon, go underwater with mermaids etc etc (general kids stuff). He was really excited about it and since then (i see him pretty often as he only lives about 10mins away) that his number of nightmares has dropped considerably. He now loves telling me about his dreams, i think the last one was about him saving a bunny or something lol, but i really think that my intro to him worked.

concerning nightmares, i asked him whether or not he was afraid of anything in real life that he was afraid of and he said the dark (lol) and frogs xD. So i decided to try and conquer my fear as well as his and go into a dark room and make it seem less scary (i left the door open so at least a lil light was in and that helped him to see that there was nothing to be afraid of. Then i said that next time something really scary happens, ask if is real life or a 'wakey dream' and then dont be scared of it anymore.

well he had another lucid so im pretty confident it worked lol.

hope this helped!

Thanks dude ^^

Thats really cool what your doing with your cousin. I've never actually told y brother that it is called 'lucid' dreaming, so maybe i will call it wakey dreams aswell. It will probably make more sense that way.

Originally Posted by Caradon

Well I was already seriously into my dreams at that age, even before that.
And I often fantasized about how much fun it would be, to be able to know that your dreaming.

At the time though, I thought if it was really possible to do that, every one would be doing it and talking about it all the time. So I didn't really try that hard, thinking it wasn't something that could be done.

As a kid I didn't understand that most people were not into their dreams the way I was. So I didn't actually get into Lucid Dreaming until years later. After watching the Movie "Dreamscape" I decided that possible or not, I was going to make it happen. And I did, that very night.

So, yeah, it would have been very nice to have somebody to talk to about dreaming, and Lucidity at that young of an age. If you bring it up, I'm sure you will find out soon enough if it's something he will want to, or be able to get into.

Thanks Caradon.

Yep I know hes up for it. I spoke to him about it last night after he woke up from a nightmare all teary-eyed and panicky. I said that if he wanted to i could help him realise when he was dreaming so that things wouldent be scary and he'd be able to have fun. Now its just up to me to teach him in a fun, non-boring way.

Cool, good luck!

Go Dizko. I love this idea and when it comes to stress thing I don't think it will be a problem as long as you make lucid into a fun creative thing!

I also had nightmares when I was little, mostly about aliens but once I became lucid and as the aliens were running around with their laserguns I was going "wtf is up with u guys?", acting allhigh and mighty and I felt in control, and they seemed ridiculous, after that I never had nightmares. Hopefully your brother will get the same results!

Originally Posted by ollei

Go Dizko. I love this idea and when it comes to stress thing I don't think it will be a problem as long as you make lucid into a fun creative thing!

I also had nightmares when I was little, mostly about aliens but once I became lucid and as the aliens were running around with their laserguns I was going "wtf is up with u guys?", acting allhigh and mighty and I felt in control, and they seemed ridiculous, after that I never had nightmares. Hopefully your brother will get the same results!

Yea hopefully. Im glad of the feedback ollei.

tack!

Originally Posted by Dizko

tack!

varsågod kompis

Hm, I don't see why it would be hard, I started to train to get lucid when child too (was horribly bad and no info about it...) as long as its funny and with not so-much info (like, hit him with all that scientific info all at once lol), it should be ok, or thats my opinion, but remembers, if its no fun and there is stress because of info and techniques, a child will quickly stop any training <.<

good luck, i wish someone taught me about lucid dreams when i was younger as well.