Hi Andre,

lucid dreaming will not necessarily help with night terrors, as these happen in deep stages of sleep and the child usually has zero recollection of what triggered them.
Are you sure these are night terrors (child screams and screams and can’t be comforted, then falls back to sleep and recalls nothing of the incident in the morning) and not nightmares? Lucid dreaming can be instrumental in helping with nightmares.

I started teaching my child about lucid dreaming when she was 2.5 so the earlier the better – of course the concept is hard to explain at that age but just letting them know they can change nightmares and make friends with scary dream figures so they are not scary any more can all be extremely helpful.

My book Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming has many tips and tricks on how lucid dreaming and waking dreamwork can help with nightmares and a chapter on children’s dreams. I also explain how to eliminate night terrors in that book.

Also a book I co-edited, Sleep Monsters & Superheroes, has many dream experts from around the world writing on children’s dreams and nightmares.

I wish you the best of luck helping your child, do feel free to contact me again with further questions, I would love to help. I was on holiday which is why I didn’t answer your post much sooner, sorry about that.

Clare

Having a child (age6) who suffers from night terror, can teaching them about LD help them?
Also, what age is a good age to start learning about LD.

If you could guide me to books or links about night terror and LD that are for children, that would be amazing. I will look more into this website as well.

Thank you,
A

That depends what black spiders signify for you personally, and on the emotions you experienced in the dream. In my book Mindful Dreaming I give lots of practical techniques for unwrapping the meaning of dreams.