Did you do anything to comfort your self
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Nightlight. I absolutely cannot sleep without one
I had a light up plug that I used until I was about 14. I hated sleeping in pitch black.
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I had a thing where I had to look left and right a few times when I was laying in bed or the zombie dogs from Resident Evil would pop up 
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I was one of those kids who spent nights in terror, hiding under the covers even though it got so unbearably hot and the air got so thin it was too uncomfortable to just fall asleep, spending ages trying to pluck up the courage to make an airhole to breathe through or poke my head out. I had vivid nightmares that I still remember to this day, and for some odd reason felt it necessary to stare into the dark corners of my room to see what I could 'see' hiding there.
I don't think I ever managed to comfort myself TBH, especially not after seeing films such as Watership Down, When the Wind Blows, The Shining, Poltergeist and some of Bram Stoker's Dracula at far too young an age. I distinctly remember not being allowed the light on, despite bricking myself for quite some time afterwards.
I don't think I ever managed to comfort myself TBH, especially not after seeing films such as Watership Down, When the Wind Blows, The Shining, Poltergeist and some of Bram Stoker's Dracula at far too young an age. I distinctly remember not being allowed the light on, despite bricking myself for quite some time afterwards.
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I was one of those kids who spent nights in terror, hiding under the covers even though it got so unbearably hot and the air got so thin it was too uncomfortable to just fall asleep, spending ages trying to pluck up the courage to make an airhole to breathe through or poke my head out. I had vivid nightmares that I still remember to this day, and for some odd reason felt it necessary to stare into the dark corners of my room to see what I could 'see' hiding there.
I don't think I ever managed to comfort myself TBH, especially not after seeing films such as Watership Down, When the Wind Blows, The Shining, Poltergeist and some of Bram Stoker's Dracula at far too young an age. I distinctly remember not being allowed the light on, despite bricking myself for quite some time afterwards.
I'm pretty similar, I had terrible re-occuring nightmares and waking dreams as a kid up until my teens and throughout that time I either spent hours standing out on the landing petrified - sometimes all night until my parents would get up for work
or hiding under my cover lol. Even now I've got to be honest, I'm not keen on the dark in my house.
It's much more rare but I will wake up occasionally disoriented and feel an impending sense of doom, and the light has to go on, greatly annoying the Mrs. I can't sleep if I don't have the cover pulled up so I can't see the room, just becone a habit since I was about 4/5.
I'm pretty similar, I had terrible re-occuring nightmares and waking dreams as a kid up until my teens and throughout that time I either spent hours standing out on the landing petrified - sometimes all night until my parents would get up for work
Even now I've got to be honest, I'm not keen on the dark in my house.
It's much more rare but I will wake up occasionally disoriented and feel an impending sense of doom, and the light has to go on, greatly annoying the Mrs. I can't sleep if I don't have the cover pulled up so I can't see the room, just becone a habit since I was about 4/5.
Just as a head-up, there is a ghost waiting for you in the reflection of your bathroom mirror. Wouldn't look in it tonight if I were you!
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Awwww.
I can't sleep without my feet being covered aswell. If my feet aren't covered, then the rest of my body can't be.
Brilliant!
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I remember first coming to terms with my mortality as a child. I was around 12 years old. There was a moment, an extremely deep, cold, sombre truth set in and I no longer felt so young... My eyes, though closed, diffused a dull ache into my stark, frozen face. There is only chance. I had problems sleeping, and every night before I drifted, the universe and life's complexity and delicacy would keep me awake. I dwell and I pondered, and eventually... My comfort was sleep.
At least you didn't see Plague Dogs
Not really any habbits here, couldn't leave the door open to sleep though, feels wrong. I'm an extremely light sleeper so I know that anything would wake me up, so I certainly don't need to set anything up to 'alert' me. Absolute curse though, wish I could sleep through noise