Dream intentions help settle the minds of children — and adults — by focusing their imagination on something gentle, meaningful, or kind.
In Goodnight Sheepy, a child doesn’t just fall asleep — they remember someone they once dreamed about.
And with one quiet, powerful thought… Sheepy returns.
The Dreamworld isn’t a faraway place.
It’s just on the other side of a kind thought.
Dream intention is the gentle practice of guiding what you’d like to dream about before falling asleep. It’s based on the science of Targeted Dream Incubation — a method that shows we can sometimes influence the themes or feelings in our dreams just by focusing on them before bed.
In Goodnight Sheepy, we explore this idea through story — not instruction. A child brings Sheepy back into their world simply by thinking of him… a memory from a dream, reignited by imagination.
And at the end of the book, we quietly offer the prompt:
“What would you like to dream about tonight?”
That question invites children (and adults) to drift into sleep with a kind and creative thought — something they’d like to explore, feel, or return to.
In future Sheepy stories, we follow that thread even further — discovering where dreams can lead when they’re sparked by intention, kindness, and imagination.