I have been learning how to lucid dream recently, and i have noticed increased awareness in my dreams. I am now able to recall dreams almost every morning, but sometimes i am not. on these mornings i wake up and i can remember that i was dreaming, just not what it was about. After some time, if i cant remember the dreams, i decide to go back to sleep and then i usually wake up and remember a dream, its just not as long.
On this particular morning, i could not remember my dreams, so i decided to go back to sleep. So i closed my eyes and like every time we fall asleep, we dont realize it. In my dream i was in the back seat of a car and my friend offered me a cup cake. For some reason i knew there was mariquana in it because the last few nights i have noticed alot of sightings of weed. So i started eating it, and i then lost track of time, vision, and i felt blank, without a thought running through my mind. Then i felt like i was gaining consiousness, but i could not move and my vision was blurry. I started to somewhat panic and tried to talk and move, and then i woke up.
I do not know what happened, all i no is that i have had an increased sense of awareness and consiousness in my dreams and i was wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

I am a new mom and I have an infant who is almost 4 months old. He is starting to wake in the middle of the night being hungry, should I start giving him cereal? I’m not getting any sleep just need some help or helping advice.

I’m not getting her a toddler bed just yet cuz she’s only 15 months old, but I was thinking about it today because when we were at the store today she saw a toddler bed and wouldn’t stay off of it! She goes down great at nap and bedtime, I just lay her down with her paci and she goes to sleep (she may fuss for a few minutes). Do you think she’ll transition well?

How did you get your toddler used to his/her bed?

My child is 4 1/2 and has always had a very hard time with getting shots. Even as a baby she did not calm down afterwards until she cried herself to sleep. Today we went in and she had to get the wax cleaned out of her ears. It was TERRIBLE. We had to put her in restraints, it took 3 nurses. She screamed and thrashed the whole time, screaming for her daddy, screaming that she couldn’t breathe, screaming, screaming, screaming. Choking on crying.

I’ve tried all the general advice. I prepare her, but not too much, I act calm and business like, but loving, I promise a present afterwards, I explain why we have to do it, I give her something to cuddle. None of it seems to help! She always says she’ll try to be brave, but once it begins, she can’t calm herself at all. She gets in full blown fight or flight mode. Complete and total panic attack. It’s like participating in torture.

The doctor said it’s anxiety, and if it turns up in other areas of life it could be an anxiety disorder. Well, all of that aside, is it realistic to ask for her to get some sort of child-safe tranquilizer when she goes for something like this ear cleaning today? It took an hour of screaming to do this little procedure. If she were an adult I would’ve insisted that she be given something. I feel like I should be advocating for her more. I mean she really REALLY has difficulty during these "events". They are always traumatic for her and me, both. Is there any kind of tranquilizer I could ask for to make this better? She’s only 4 1/2. Is there something I should make the doctor’s office do? I thought of telling them to leave us alone for awhile and I would try to calm her, but it seemed like it would just prolong it and I know that when she’s thinking about it, she thinks she can do it, but when the time comes, she can’t.
We have tried breathing exercises and talking about it. I did ask her why she is so scared, all she will say is she does not like it. We’ve read books about shots and explained in depth all about this sort of thing. She acknowledges that we have to do it to keep her healthy. She completely understands that. I tried to get her to do her yoga breathing, and she took some deep breaths, but as soon as they go in again she screams and forgets it all.
thank you, yes I certainly plan to ask the doctor, never fear. I am asking here because this is all occuring to me now as I’m trying to sleep but relieving the screams, heh. Thank you for the replies and any additional replies. I will not give her anything without approval from doctor, but just need an idea of what to ask for.

We’re both 16, she’s a girl and I’m a guy, if that helps at all. I was in the back seat of a car with her while on the way to pick up her friend to sleep over at her house. She got a text from some guy asking her what she’s doing on friday night. I have a habit of being over protective and I’m wrong for being so. Anyway, I asked a few questions like, "How old is he?" "What grade is he in?" This happend when we were pulling into the driveway of her friend’s house. She said "honestly, thats like the one thing that you do that really annoys me and makes me want to slap you." Along with some other things I can’t recall. She slammed the car door and went into her friend’s house.

I just got dropped off at home, even though she invited me over to hang out with her and her friend. What do I do? She’s never yelled at me before and it really hurt. I know what I did was wrong and that I shouldn’t be that protective. I just don’t know what to do. She got back into the car and acted like she was happy with everything and all, but still. I need advice. Please help?

So just a few minutes ago actually I was laying in my bed. I ALWAYS have to sleep with my fan on, it soothes my I guess. But anyway, I was laying in bed trying to get to sleep but I just couldn’t. I finally started to get a little tired and thought I should just close my eyes and speed it up. I don’t recall when, but I somehow found my eyes open again. I heard a crinkle-ish sound (Sounded exactly like when you turn on the monitor your computer and it makes that static fuzz sound has the screen lights up.) and I thought maybe my computer screen was coming to life and out of the corner of my eye I see a blue-ish hue and starting getting scared. I zoom up only to see that it wasn’t my screen but my night-light. (yeah-yeah. I’m a 15 year old girl with a night-light, who cares?) So I calm down and start laying down again. but this time the crinkle comes back. I try to tell myself it’s something going through my fan or something but the sound is very distinct over the noise of the fan. I keep shutting my eyes until I feel my blanket move a little down by my feet. I ignore it and hold perfectly still hoping I’ll fall asleep. Then the crinkling sound moves towards the foot of my room where my bed points. I again, ignore it. I lay down again and squeeze my eyes shut really tight and just try to calm myself since I know I’m just getting worked up. Then I start hearing distant sounds and words that feel like I’m hearing them inside my head, but it’s not my voice and I know it’s not me since I keep thinking "Oh God.. oh God.. Oh God.." over top of it. i tried to breathe in and out and block it, hoping I’m just taking sounds from out side my room and hearing them differently. Then the fuzzy words multiply and lots more voices join in and I finally made some out. Just random things like the words "But, then, more, distant, again" really random words. I start feeling super scared and unable to move until finally I hear a ‘pop’ sound from beside me where my alarm clock is. (Now this is the sound you hear when you plug something in. Like a microphone into a karaoke machine, like a quick popping noise.) I knew what the sound came from and jumped up and raced to my closet so I could turn on it’s light. I was almost in tears and I felt like when I tried to walk there was nothing… like I couldn’t feel air or make myself walk straight. I ran upstairs and told my parents which was weird because when odd stuff happens I really try to just make reasons for it and AVOID telling my parents because they always tell me things like I imagined it or I’m just silly. They must have noticed something was off because my dad told me I could sleep in the living room on the couch which is a HUGE random pet peeve of his. I grabbed my cat from their bed and now I’m in the living room writing this. It’s really weird since I feel like being in the living room doesn’t make me feel any safer.

To be honest WHILE I’ve been writing this I heard the weird noises once more but I blocked it out and ignored it. Months ago my step-dad and I talked and he even admitted he’s heard weird stuff too. He once said that downstairs where his drums and music stuff is while he was playing he heard someone say from a room "What’s with all this God damned noise?!" and when my dad stopped playing and said "sorry." he heard shuffling of footsteps walking away.

When we first moved in I noticed lots of movement, when I was doing dishes and when I sat a cup in the rack upside down it FLIPPED into the air and landed right-side up. I was shocked and asked my mom if she had seen it and she said no. Then I saws my brothers car-seat that was set on the stairs move three steps down right in front of me. Again, no one had seen it. I couldn’t even move as I watched it. And once I heard my TV come on, but I figured maybe someone had paused it earlier and it had just came un-paused.

The noises though, I’ve heard lots of. That movement of things was only in the beginning, I haven’t seen anything else since then.

Could my house be haunted? Kind of hard to answer question I know. But I needed to type this out to calm down….

Any explanations you can think of?
SORRY IT’S SO LONG.
Yeahh, I used to think I felt the presence of my mom’s still birth baby (Jacob, who would have been my older brother) and I always tell myself it’s just him. But tonight is the first night in awhile I’ve actually gotten words out of the jumble.. It’s making me a little scared.
I’d love if you could tell me. i’d really try anything.

My aunt sent me a Graco pack n play for my baby who is due in 2 weeks to sleep in. She didnt send the instruction booklet so I dont know how to set up the bassinet and changing table part of the pack n play. Can anyone help me?

I need to travel cross country on an airplane with a 11 month old baby and I was wondering if it is a good idea to travel on a red eye airplane flight with infant baby? The thought is that she would be sleepy when we got on the plane and hopefully would sleep thru the flight. Has anyone done this before or have seen it themselves when they traveled on a red eye?

What do you do that you know you shouldn’t?

Do you give your baby solids really young/really late (depending on what you believe)? Snap the infant carrier on shopping carts? Forward face before 12 months? Cosleep? CIO? Crib sleep?

I give my almost 2 year old some pretty unhealthy foods, and sometimes I whine back at him.

What do you do?

My son is 4 days old. Normal for a newborn he still sleeps a lot. When he does wake up he is only nursing for about 10 minutes before falling back to sleep. I’m concerned he’s not eating enough. How long should he be feeding?

So When My baby is due my daughter will be 2 yr 3 months… so we need a double stroller… I like the tandem kinds but hubby likes side by side… in your opinion what pro and cons for both… which would be better for a infant and toddler together? And I dont like the sit stand strollers cause we go to disneyland a lot so need something my toddler can sleep in also.

So When My baby is due my daughter will be 2 yr 3 months… so we need a double stroller… I like the tandem kinds but hubby likes side by side… in your opinion what pro and cons for both… which would be better for a infant and toddler together? And I dont like the sit stand strollers cause we go to disneyland a lot so need something my toddler can sleep in also.

i don’t understand. i would LOVE to buy an infant carrier but i thought that babies are not supposed to sleep upright against your chest because it’s a SIDS risk????? am i wrong?

examples of carriers:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4285643

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4447843

We looked at cribs for the first time today and I am left with tons of questions, as you can imagine. My main one right now is(I’m sure there will be many more)…. Is there a specific type of crib that allows baby to remain in the crib until they reach the ability to sleep in a toddler bed or do they all have this quality? How do you know if they have this quality, because this is what we are looking for.

This is my first if you can’t tell. lol So I really appreciate your comments.

What age did he/she sleep in their toddler bed, and how did you go about doing it?

My daughter just looks at her new toddler bed like its a big toy she can play on. But she will NOT sleep on it.