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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 196509" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>You know how we dealt with that logic? </p><p></p><p>I explained to the kids that nightmares will leak out of your head - all you have to do is roll over and go to bed lying down on your other side, and the nightmare you WERE having will trickle out the ear now facing down.</p><p></p><p>So if your child says, "I'm scared to go back to bed - what if I have the same bad dream?" explain to him that all he has to do is roll over and lie on his other side. And this works - for ANY nightmare.</p><p></p><p>OK, he might still have another nightmare, but that's the point - it will be ANOTHER nightmare, it won't be the same one.</p><p></p><p>There is also sound science behind it - because any dream is a combination of factors, from the brain dealing with the combined input of the day, to the position you're lying in, the background noise, everything. </p><p></p><p>We used the "trickle out the other ear" story until the kids were old enough to understand the science of exactly what dreams are, including the news that the more stimulating the day, the more processing the brain had to do at night to sift through the day's input and file it. Nightmares are often the result of too much jumbled information in the brain because there is just too much to sort through in one day.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 196509, member: 1991"] You know how we dealt with that logic? I explained to the kids that nightmares will leak out of your head - all you have to do is roll over and go to bed lying down on your other side, and the nightmare you WERE having will trickle out the ear now facing down. So if your child says, "I'm scared to go back to bed - what if I have the same bad dream?" explain to him that all he has to do is roll over and lie on his other side. And this works - for ANY nightmare. OK, he might still have another nightmare, but that's the point - it will be ANOTHER nightmare, it won't be the same one. There is also sound science behind it - because any dream is a combination of factors, from the brain dealing with the combined input of the day, to the position you're lying in, the background noise, everything. We used the "trickle out the other ear" story until the kids were old enough to understand the science of exactly what dreams are, including the news that the more stimulating the day, the more processing the brain had to do at night to sift through the day's input and file it. Nightmares are often the result of too much jumbled information in the brain because there is just too much to sort through in one day. Marg [/QUOTE]
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