How to talk to kids about their dreams

Connecting with children through their dreams

Tzivia Gover
4 min readOct 27, 2022

By Tzivia Gover

As I child, I loved my dreams because it felt like every night I had a ticket to a magic movie theater. What’s more, I didn’t know if when the lights went down and the midnight movie screen lit up, I’d be seeing a comedy, an adventure, or a scary movie!

As an adult, I continue to turn to my dreams because they reconnect me with a sense of childlike wonder. I’m awed by the nightly productions that visit me — and the mind-blowing thought that equally dazzling dreams are unspooling in the minds of every person in the world, beginning with their time in utero and each night throughout their life. What’s more, dreams have been doing this since the beginning of time.

The first dream I remember took place when I was 4 or 5 years old, an age when many kids start to talk about their dreams. In that dream, I am standing barefoot in my nightgown at the top of the stairs. Peering down, with my nose pressed between the spindles of the railing, I see my father, seated cross-legged on the living room floor downstairs. He’s holding up a Mickey Mouse doll — only to break it open. An army of little mice escapes from within it and the mouse-warriors fan out through the house to attack.

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Tzivia Gover
Tzivia Gover

Written by Tzivia Gover

In my books, 1:1 sessions, and workshops, I inspire people to turn to their nighttime dreams to supercharge their creativity and personal growth.

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