C'mon then lets hear the best stories about silly things your kids have done at night. My eldest son, 12 who loves computers and logical type stuff, just came out 3/4 asleep and muttered "you know when you have two objects and one of them has better features..." Whaatt are you on about?? Gave him the standard "go to the toilet then back to bed".

 

Sometimes they are right off. My youngest girl, 7, sometimes wakes with the night terrors and is looking around everywhere frantic. 10 yr old son used to get out of bed and walk up and down the hall 5 or 6 times, then eventually go back to bed. Man - got to make sure I lock the doors. One night I had not gone to bed yet and followed my son out the back door, then stopped him as he got to the side of the house and steeered him back to bed.

Wow that's a *bit* disconcerting. I don't recall stuff like that from my childhood... except when I was like <4, watched ET waaaaay too young as a kid and had nightmares about him for years... in my nightmares he could spew fire though so he was particularly scary. I recall that in the dream I'd hear something down the hall (our house was one of those big brick shaped ones with the massive corridor in the middle...) and call my mom but no one would answer. I'd walk down to the kitchen to see either the fridge door open or the lights off but noise around [variants] and then I'd see the glowing eyes and it'd go bad from there.

 

Just had a shiver. I still refuse to watch that movie! My grandmother was here a few months ago and she's almost 80 now... she woke up screaming one night... like full on screaming... she said there were people outside her window staring in etc. Creepy stuff!

 

Apparently I'm a sleep-conversationalist according to the ex... as in not murmurs but actual sentences, sometimes calm... sometimes laughing, often yelling. I'm also a massive snorer, ugh... how did she put up with sleeping next to me every night?

^^ thats probably while you call her your ex.. lol

 

I dont have kids... but Ive had some pretty nasty dreams / nightmares stuff when I was around the under 10 area.. I have a good imagination, so its easy to think up very bad situations and what can happen, many times got freaked out from movies or what not then thinking them up in my head, what if, what if its there, in here, behind that etc lol so theres been alota nights I couldnt sleep.

 

Would be pretty weird/scary to watch your kids go through it thats for sure.

Yeah, my eldest (4) has night terrors and sleep walks *every* night. Always ends up in our bed in the early ours of the morning talking about monsters and stuff.

 

I read that in children, the part of the brain that disconnects physical activity while asleep hasn't quite developed yet, which is why they are prone to sleep walking and night terrors - so I'm waiting until he grows out of it - if ever...

 

I still refuse to watch that movie!

If its any consolation, you're not missing much. I watched it again a year or two ago and couldn't believe how crap it was!! What was I thinking as a child...

"you know when you have two objects and one of them has better features..."

 

Mate I think your son was dreaming about chicks! He prefered the one with bigger boobs, lol j/ks.

 

I grew up with a house full of boys im the eldest of 6, so there were always times when someone went sleep walking or one was having a full conversation in thier sleep.

 

The Brother after me was well know for sleep walking and sleep talking and I think his wife told me he still is. One night when we were younger my mum told us the next morning that he walked upto her bedroom doorway and stood there for a couple of minutes, she then asked him are you ok. He then continued to raise his right arm and stick his middle finger at mum and then turned around and went slowly back to bed. Mum didnt know what to do but laugh.

 

ahhhh good times good times.

Not really a kid antic but darn funny during a cadet camp when we found one of your cadets rolling around in mud fast asleep. He had somehow ended up 10 metres away from his hootchie blindly flailing like a fish out of water when we found him at around 5 in the morning.

Well one of my mates was a "night screamer" a.k.a he'd sit upright in his bed then let out a blood curdling scream then slowly lye down again . . . was very interesting on a youth camp i went on, bout 200 kids all sleeping in a gym down in Bunbury, i was up quietly talking to another mate when i noticed the other bloke sit up, then scream damn it was funny seeing ppl jump up going "WTH?!?!"

 

Use to sleep walk a bit (i think) myself, when living down in Esperence (was around 6-7) my mum told me the one day that i sleep walked the night before, they had friends round, i came stumbling down the hall, walked up to mum sat on her knee then asked her if i could have a cup of tea, she said ok, i said thanks then stumbled back to bed. Another night (still in Esperence) had a pretty wicked dream, just finished watching Jaws (while eating a large helping of fish n chips covered in tomato sauce!), had a dream i was watching the news, they were talking about this rouge shark that was attacking boats, the news chopper towed a small dingy with outboard on out to where it was suppose to be then this small 1-2 foot long shark that looked like a mini-great white jumped out of the water and proceeded to eat the top of the outboard. Next thing i knew it 'fell' out of the tele and started flopping up the hall, thought "eh its only small i'll throw it back in the tele" went to pick it up, which of course is when it turn round, proceeded to open its mouth and rip my arm off. Had that same dream for about a week or two after watching Jaws . . . wasn't scared to go swimming tho which is funny (o:

 

My little tacker is too small to go sleep walking yet but when the wife goes to retuck him in before we go to bed he's always sprawled out or has his face mashed up against the side of the cot sticking his bum up in the air, always good for a very quiet chuckle (o:

Another antic which, thankfully, seems to have gone away now is that the boys would wander down and "randomly" choose some place to attempt to pull the "wee man" out and let loose. Have had them open the pantry cupboard, stand in front of the bath, just do it on the bathroom floor, even once opened the pot drawer and stodd over it. Luckily have been awake and jumped up and hurried them to the toilet before they "let loose", but does scare me to think what happens when I go to bed early (which is not that often)... Boys!!

Now that's funny - I got two boys, I'm a little worried now...

Just don't go to sleep ;o)

My youngest daughter (4) often wakes in the middle of the night and comes out with some really lucid questions seemingly randomly. She has a pretty high IQ so I guess there is something going on in there!

 

The other night she just appeared next to my bed at 1AM wanting to know what it was that made it easier for kids to slide down the slide instead of climbing up and why didn't gravity work upside down!

 

Then she asked me if fairy magic was real. I said no, not really (thinking she was scared at the time..). She then announced that since fairys were not real Jesus must not be real either since he did magic too!!! Needless to say my (very) catholic wife is not very happy with me now!

Heh.. My daughter (7) asked me whether mermaids were real the other day and when I said no she was pretty let down. Kind of sad, felt like I was popping one of her balloons. She loves fairies and that kind of stuff. Going to SciTech with her tomorrow actually, with class of Year 2 kids, should be fun.

Gazza they are real, just show her this

 

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/wp-images/malaysia-mermaid.jpg

 

yes I know it was a fake

my girls 12 and 10 are yet to deny the existence of Santa Claus.... I think that this is only because they probably think they won't get presents if they tell me he's not real.... I still get my beer and biscuits on xmas eve though so I don't care.....