danieljohnson

Daniel had a period for about two weeks with trouble sleeping. He'd wake up in the middle of the night calling out for mommy. He'd wake up anywhere between 1AM och 3AM. Not too much fun for him or for me who gets up at 5.25AM every weekday. At first I would sit by his bed side and wait until he went back to sleep. That worked maybe twice. Then he would wake up again the same night and do the same thing over again. So I took him to our bed just because I got way too tired. We've been really lucky so far with Daniel with sleeping routines, he sleeps in his own bed the whole night. So we were not too keen on changing that now when there's a baby on the way, which most likely means even less sleep for all of us. Every morning Daniel would give us a full statement of his dreams. If they were good or bad, nice guys or monsters. A night without any kind of dreams was the best night for him.

So we started talking about what we could do to get rid of the bad dreams. His brilliant idea was to build a machine with a laser beam that would slice the dreams before they got to him. Since we are not engineers and experienced machine-builders with laser beam technology, we suggested that we would draw a picture of that machine instead. We thought that Daniel would be a part of that project and draw most of it, but he just gave us a piece of paper and ran off to play. So Marc and I drew the machine and Daniel approved of the end result. We put the picture on his night stand for the night. He went to bed and slept through the whole night without waking up. The next morning he announced with big amazed eyes that the dreamcatcher worked! He didn't dream anything. We are happy and well rested again :-)

This is what a dreamcatcher looks like: