Comments on: The curse of a wild imagination? http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/ The Mummy Blog everyone is talking about Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Andrea http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2118 Andrea Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:53:36 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2118 Wow, sorry your little one has night terrors, but glad mine isn't the only one. He'll have them several nights in a row, each time screaming that he' doesn't like it', but can't tell me what! It's very strange and disturbing, but I used to have them too and still do on occasion so maybe it is hereditary. I have read that it's very common and nothing to worry about, just a phase! Wow, sorry your little one has night terrors, but glad mine isn’t the only one. He’ll have them several nights in a row, each time screaming that he’ doesn’t like it’, but can’t tell me what! It’s very strange and disturbing, but I used to have them too and still do on occasion so maybe it is hereditary. I have read that it’s very common and nothing to worry about, just a phase!

]]> By: Tamsin http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2021 Tamsin Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:00:48 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2021 This night terror stuff is freaking me about a little bit. I think this may have happened to Amy a few times. She seems to be awake, but not quite! Once when she woke crying I went to check and she just sat and screamed at me that she wanted Mammy, I tried to tell her that I was there but she looked straing at me and screamed at me again that she didn't want me she wanted Mammy! I don't know who she thought I was, but it was very upsetting, she went back off to sleep and didn't seem to remember anything in the morning. This night terror stuff is freaking me about a little bit. I think this may have happened to Amy a few times.

She seems to be awake, but not quite! Once when she woke crying I went to check and she just sat and screamed at me that she wanted Mammy, I tried to tell her that I was there but she looked straing at me and screamed at me again that she didn’t want me she wanted Mammy! I don’t know who she thought I was, but it was very upsetting, she went back off to sleep and didn’t seem to remember anything in the morning.

]]> By: Selina Kingston http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2020 Selina Kingston Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:37:27 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2020 The whole sleepwalking thing completely freaks me out although it doesn't happen so much anymore now my son is a teenager. It last happened a year or so ago, when I woke up suddenly to find him by my bed, with that horrid glazed look, holding out a pen to me. God knows how long he had been standing there. "Are you OK?" I asked and he replied "I just want to give you this". So I took the pen and and he duly turned on his heel, robotic style, and went back to bed with me close on his heels checking he got there in one piece! He had no memory of it in the morning. Hate it - really HATE it!!! The whole sleepwalking thing completely freaks me out although it doesn’t happen so much anymore now my son is a teenager. It last happened a year or so ago, when I woke up suddenly to find him by my bed, with that horrid glazed look, holding out a pen to me. God knows how long he had been standing there. “Are you OK?” I asked and he replied “I just want to give you this”. So I took the pen and and he duly turned on his heel, robotic style, and went back to bed with me close on his heels checking he got there in one piece! He had no memory of it in the morning. Hate it – really HATE it!!!

]]> By: Pippa http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 Pippa Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:12:49 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2019 Daddy suffers from Sleep paralysis and I often wonder if Top Ender and Baby Boy will suffer from it. I know that they both already take after me in sleeping position and talking in their sleep so hopefully not. Scares me and I don't even have it! Daddy suffers from Sleep paralysis and I often wonder if Top Ender and Baby Boy will suffer from it.

I know that they both already take after me in sleeping position and talking in their sleep so hopefully not. Scares me and I don’t even have it!

]]> By: Jen @ buried with children http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2018 Jen @ buried with children Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:43:39 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2018 I don't dream often, well I don't rememer my dreams very often but when I do they are always so vivid that I usually wake up out of breath. I don’t dream often, well I don’t rememer my dreams very often but when I do they are always so vivid that I usually wake up out of breath.

]]> By: Josie @Sleep is for the Weak http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 Josie @Sleep is for the Weak Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:18:15 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2017 Oh can empathise with your poor babbas, I've also always had a rather over-active imagination which fails to 'turn off' at night. It was fine once I was older and could understand the difference between dreams and reality (well, most of the time, I still get a bit confused) but when I was little it was terrifying. That not quite asleep not quite awake bit just before deep sleep was always the worst for me - when all the monsters would come out to play. I hope it passes for them soon - if it's any help my mum used to do a kind of wind-down relaxation with me before I went to sleep. She's get me to 'talk out' all the stuff in my head however weird and wonderful and then run through a relaxation where I would say 'night night' to, and relax every part of my body. It would really help. Interestingly (and rather famously) my son is an APPALLING sleeper and often wakes up seemingly crying in fear, or other times screams blue murder but is still fast asleep. During the day you can see his little brain working ten million miles an hour and I have a feeling he has developed my inabilty to switch off - I'm guessing that as soon as he can verbalise how he's feeling we may find out he gets disturbed by dreams and night terrors too. Oh can empathise with your poor babbas, I’ve also always had a rather over-active imagination which fails to ‘turn off’ at night. It was fine once I was older and could understand the difference between dreams and reality (well, most of the time, I still get a bit confused) but when I was little it was terrifying. That not quite asleep not quite awake bit just before deep sleep was always the worst for me – when all the monsters would come out to play.

I hope it passes for them soon – if it’s any help my mum used to do a kind of wind-down relaxation with me before I went to sleep. She’s get me to ‘talk out’ all the stuff in my head however weird and wonderful and then run through a relaxation where I would say ‘night night’ to, and relax every part of my body. It would really help.

Interestingly (and rather famously) my son is an APPALLING sleeper and often wakes up seemingly crying in fear, or other times screams blue murder but is still fast asleep. During the day you can see his little brain working ten million miles an hour and I have a feeling he has developed my inabilty to switch off – I’m guessing that as soon as he can verbalise how he’s feeling we may find out he gets disturbed by dreams and night terrors too.

]]> By: Jo http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2016 Jo Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:42:17 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2016 Oooohhh, I don't like that glazed over, stare right through me look either. Eery! Oooohhh, I don’t like that glazed over, stare right through me look either. Eery!

]]> By: admin http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 admin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:21:21 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2015 I love that you shout at him in German. I have been known to grab my husband round the head and witter to him ... in English though. I love that you shout at him in German. I have been known to grab my husband round the head and witter to him … in English though.

]]> By: admin http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 admin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:20:44 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2014 Justin? Oh god no. Although in my eyes, slightly better than Martin Clunes! I had to stop giving the 5 yr old any sort of cough medicine becuase of her hallucinations. Justin? Oh god no. Although in my eyes, slightly better than Martin Clunes!

I had to stop giving the 5 yr old any sort of cough medicine becuase of her hallucinations.

]]> By: admin http://arewenearlythereyetmummy.com/the-curse-of-a-wild-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 admin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:15:21 +0000 http://addcreative.co.uk/AWNTYM/?p=1302#comment-2013 I hope she grows out of it. I'm relatively unharmed by it, but as a child it wasn't great! I hope she grows out of it.

I’m relatively unharmed by it, but as a child it wasn’t great!

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