Creepy Kid Story 2
Creepy Kid Story 2
I’m just about to head out the door to work this morning when I hear Coop whining through the baby monitor. My wife is still sleeping so I run up hoping to get him back to sleep before she wakes up. Coop is laying in his crib wide awake, looking upset.
“Hey, buddy. It’s not time to get up yet. You want to go back to sleep?”
“No, Papa, I see a ghost.”
“What? There’s no ghosts.”
“I see a ghost in my eyes and it try to get me!”
“Ok, let’s just go back to sleep. There’s no ghosts.”
“It really creepy.”
And my wife just texted me that he’s still talking about it. But the ghost was a turtle, so that’s not very scary anymore.
Man, my son is just about Coop's age and has no idea what a ghost even is. I'm pretty sure he's had some bad dreams, but he just comes into our room and crawls into bed with us and maybe whines a bit before falling back asleep.
ReplyDeleteWe've watched some Scooby Doo. And he's got a big sister to fill his head with stuff too. I'm always surprised when he talks about stuff he barely knows anything about in the proper context though.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, I would have nightmares that would wake me up, and if I could get back to sleep before my grogginess wore off, I could return to them and nerf them. Like, I had a nightmare that my house was on fire and after I woke and returned, it was a dream about a bucket-brigade of cartoon animals putting out the fire.
ReplyDeleteMy son said he had a nightmare where he was stuck in a hole and was calling for us and we weren't hearing him... that would terrify me too.
ReplyDeleteNo lucid dreaming as an adult though?
ReplyDeleteOne of my earliest memories is what I assume is a dream. I'm in my crib in the trailer-house bedroom I shared with my sister. I see her sleeping in her crib across the room. I look at the doorway and see a mop float by. Bobbing up and down like a jellyfish. Then my parents peek in and out of the door like cartoon characters peeking around a tree.
This probably means I was abducted by Greys as a baby or something.
For a significant portion of my adult life I was living with severe sleep apnea and didn't actually dream or recall my dreams. Last summer I got my C-PAP and my dreams and I have started to become reacquainted with one another.
ReplyDeleteC-PAP machines work secular miracles from everything I hear.
ReplyDeleteThey kind of do!
ReplyDeleteJesus, yeah C-PAP is a miracle device.
ReplyDelete...Mop -wielding greys! They must have wiped your memory of them walking by, but not your memory of the mop they were carrying.
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