scared of the dark

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Spideyman

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You ever wonder why little kids are scared of the dark?

even my own daughter is. she needs to have the fish tank light or the t.v on.

If we shut it off when she goes to sleep she will wake up and make her way to our room lol.


Have you tried one of the stuffed lighted toys? Some are designed that she can squeeze it and the light will come on and comfort her if the lights have been turned off.
 

RandallFlagg19

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I leave my desk light on, which happens to be enough light to read in. I woke up every other hour last night , read an hour in Salem's Lot, slept and hour repeated the cycle for 8 hours.

As a child I always slept in the dark without a nightlight. I was 16 when I started no longer being able to sleep in full dark...
 
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not_nadine

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I just scared myself..
 

Walter Oobleck

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As long as the light banishes the dark all is well...with me it was the basement. The toilet was down there set off to the side in its own little room, wood door, deadbolt slide, dirty window looking out under the front porch. Imagine one of those places...if you've never been in one of those places. This toilet had last seen a good cleaning back when Truman was president...not that it couldn't or wouldn't be cleaned...but the linoleum under and around it was beyond redemption. Smell? That could be masked with sprays and cleansers but it was always there, lurking...and the stairwell going down had a single naked bulb hanging over the spot where the floor joist passed overhead...the bottom two steps creaked so you knew that whatever was down there knew you were down there now. I'd try to avoid those, maybe leap off from the fourth step up. Run around the coal furnace and stoker...the furnace looking like a camped-up Robot from Lost in Space, the black sheep of that family...then flick this turn-knob switch that led to the toilet...and off to the left of that was the shower, the floor raised up about a foot above the rest of the basement, an always-present musty smell coming from behind the raised panel door...a plastic curtain hanging between the toilet room and the shower...a dim bulb lighting up behind the curtain when you flicked the switch, some suggestive shadows...the noise from the television above you your only contact as you went about your business, flushed...and then waited! doggone it! to make sure the thing stopped running, listening to the pipes gurgling, maybe some swirl spray from the toilet running down your leg where the pajamas didn't cover. Basements give me the creeps.
 

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The only thing I remember not liking about the dark was when I was staying in my grandmother's or great-aunts house, and they had painting and things that they liked, but to me, they were kind of disturbing, and more so in the dark.

The only time I asked my parents to leave the hall light on was when I wanted to read after I went to bed without raising their suspicions. At least, I thought I didn't.
 

skimom2

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You ever wonder why little kids are scared of the dark?

even my own daughter is. she needs to have the fish tank light or the t.v on.

If we shut it off when she goes to sleep she will wake up and make her way to our room lol.

Riot, you might want to break her of that TV habit now. True story: my SIL and BIL encouraged their daughter to do that for years, and she developed both severe sleeping and behavior problems as she got older. Dr. said that it is likely that the TV thing contributed: when the TV is on, you can't drop into deep sleep--part of your brain is keeping track of what's going on on the TV, so you don't really rest. It's like being seriously sleep deprived over a long time, and it can effect your ability to think and your behaviour.

Just a thought!
 

HollyGolightly

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I can't sleep alone in the dark, I get scared. I keep the bathroom light on (now the red light district). I cannot sleep with the TV going. My kids do but I always get up and turn it off around 10pm. I remember having to get up in the night to nurse the babies and I was always afraid. I finally just put them in bed with me - talk about a hard habit to break! Anyhow, I totally understand fear of the dark.
 

Riot87

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Riot, you might want to break her of that TV habit now. True story: my SIL and BIL encouraged their daughter to do that for years, and she developed both severe sleeping and behavior problems as she got older. Dr. said that it is likely that the TV thing contributed: when the TV is on, you can't drop into deep sleep--part of your brain is keeping track of what's going on on the TV, so you don't really rest. It's like being seriously sleep deprived over a long time, and it can effect your ability to think and your behaviour.

Just a thought!


Thanks for the advice skimom i will bring this up to my man today.
 

Riot87

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I must be a weirdo then because one of the things I like if the boy is staying the night away is that I can sleep in total darkness. Normally we leave the landing light on for him. But ever since I can remember, I've relished sleeping in total darkness. I find it so soothing.



Yea me too girl i think its comfortable to have all the lights off lol.