Seems my youngest decided to compete with the oldest in nightmares. For 3 nights I was getting up with the oldest… last night the oldest slept through, but the youngest hollers at 2am. I go in to find out he was having nightmares. I asked him what it was about and he told me “cobwebs in the toilet”. Mumble mumble. Of course I thought it was funny and said that it sounded pretty cool to me. He just closed his eyes, grabbed my hand and went to sleep. Well, until I let go of his hand, then he would wake up again. Ugh. It took a while for him to complete sleep.
This morning I asked him about his dream. He told me these huge spiders were making spider webs near the toilet by the front door. In fact they had made cobwebs on the hinges of the door. I started to laugh. He looked at me and I told him that a toilet by the front door sounded pretty funny. You could see it go through his head and suddenly he laughed. I don’t think spiders and cobwebs are going to bother him for a while now. Me on the other hand… the thought of having to clean all that.. makes me think it is a nightmare!
I also had a spider nightmare last night. I was sleeping on my right side, which puts my face in close proximity to the dresser. And a spider had built a web between the dresser and my forehead. It was an active (jump out of bed and run across the room) nightmare, culminating in me having to turn on the light and search my bed to make sure it was spider-free.
I have a lot of active nightmares. All spider-related. Great is my fear.
I didn’t think he was afraid of spiders but it looks like he might be after all!
Many years ago I found a palmetto bug on a toilet seat and ever since then I have to turn the light on and check all around the toilet… it’s great you got him to laugh at the dream so it doesn’t become a waking nightmare!
We actually do have a toilet by the front door!
I hope you have recovered from the sleep interruptions.