On our way up to Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, I told Lily it was okay if she went to sleep in the car since it was so late. She agreed to, but then said "I sleep with my eyes open though so it may not look like I am asleep." I just said okay knowing that her eyes would of course close as she drifted off to sleep. For the record, they did close.
Well, a couple of nights ago, Lily was having a difficult time going to sleep. She has a cough right now that she can't seem to kick, and it bothers her more at night. I calmed her down and said "Now I want you to close your eyes and just enjoy your music; you'll go to sleep really soon." She said "Remember Mommy I told you, I sleep with my eyes open." So I responded, "Sweetie, it will help if you close your eyes to go to sleep." Lily's response was "But if I close my eyes, I disappear into my stories. Sometimes they are scary stories that wake me up. Sometimes they are nice stories, but sometimes they are scary." This totally took me by surprise. Lily has never mentioned having nightmares, nor has she ever mentioned being scared of anything while going to bed. All I could think to say was "I know when you have dreams, it feels like you disappear, but you don't really. It's just a dream" to which Lily replied "No Mommy, I really disappear." She said it very matter of factly and didn't seem upset by that thought, so I said "Okay, well try to think about nice and happy things before you fall asleep and that will help your dreams be good ones." Lily thought for a second and then said "Okay." Hmmm. This is very interesting to me. I'm going to need to keep an eye out on that and make sure she isn't watching anything too scary.
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