Do Babies Have Nightmares?

14 years ago

SHOOT! I was going to say that evidence suggests DOGS have nightmares! CHILDREN have nightmares. ADULTS can have nightmares. It would be hard to believe that babies don't. HECK, ever see smallville? There is one episode where superman has nightmares about being BURIED in a COFFIN! He later figures that it is a MEMORY from when his parents put him in the spaceship, as a baby. Stewie, in family guy, has dreams of some guy in a white coat mistreating him, and it was the doctor that delivered him. GRANTED, both were fiction, but they DO show how a baby can have plenty of fodder for FEAR! And who knows how much is innate to life or the species.

As a child, I would see creatures in shadows, or have fear from seeing some pictures of "greys"(A type of ET alien representation often small with large eyes, a large head, clam like hands, VERY strong, etc...) in a magazine. I didn't have any unreasonable reactions, insist on lights, or have nightmares from THEM, but I certainly COULD have.

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Intrepreneur

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

As a child, I would see creatures in shadows, or have fear from seeing some pictures of "greys"(A type of ET alien representation often small with large eyes, a large head, clam like hands, VERY strong, etc...) in a magazine. I didn't have any unreasonable reactions, insist on lights, or have nightmares from THEM, but I certainly COULD have.

Steve

Gotta LOVE the random words in CAPITAL letters. They just SEEM to be a part of your character now Steve.

WITHOUT them where would we be?

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Bill Farnham 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

Gotta LOVE the random words in CAPITAL letters. They just SEEM to be a part of your character now Steve.

NOW?

That stuff started at post #1...

Luckily for me I have Google Decoder installed.
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KenThompson

14 years ago

Dude... I remember this one doozy I had. I must have been
about 3 or 4 months, tops.

Oh man...

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thunderbird 14 years ago

Originally Posted by KenThompson

Dude... I remember this one doozy I had. I must have been
about 3 or 4 months, tops.

Oh man...

Ken

That is incredible. I'm pretty sure I was at least 2 in my earliest memories. One is pulling out the bottom drawer of a fridge and seeing cactus fruit. Another is my father catching a swordfish. It all seems to be stuff I would have had to be a little bit older to experience. The only possibility of a memory under a year old would be when my hand was slapped as I was reaching out to touch a black widow spider (that red spot on their back is really quite attractive).

I definitely don't remember my dreams from that time. I don't even remember my dreams now.
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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

Surely nightmares are caused by fear and a young baby wouldn't have anything to fear as yet. How can they have nightmares if they haven't experienced fear or seen anything bad?

What do they have nightmares about coming out of their mothers hoohoo? I mean really, what would they have nightmares about?

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KenThompson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Surely ...

What do they have nightmares about coming out of their mothers hoohoo?

First... don't call me Shirley...

Secondly... LMAO

hoohoo?

Come again, please?

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Surely nightmares are caused by fear and a young baby wouldn't have anything to fear as yet. How can they have nightmares if they haven't experienced fear or seen anything bad?

What do they have nightmares about coming out of their mothers hoohoo? I mean really, what would they have nightmares about?

Gee, I thought I covered that. From a child's point of view, they certainly have plenty to be afraid of, even if it is simply the birth. EVEN if the old myth that they couldn't feel pain or see were true, it is STILL good fodder for nightmares.

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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Gee, I thought I covered that. From a child's point of view, they certainly have plenty to be afraid of, even if it is simply the birth. EVEN if the old myth that they couldn't feel pain or see were true, it is STILL good fodder for nightmares.

Steve

Oh sorry, I didn't take too much notice of examples from Smallville or Family Guy

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

Oh sorry, I didn't take too much notice of examples from Smallville or Family Guy

Yeah, on some level, I don't think fiction counts as evidence.
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garyv 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

What do they have nightmares about coming out of their mothers hoohoo? I mean really, what would they have nightmares about?

Maybe he's realizing it will be the last time he'll see that for a while?

Although if you're a boy I'd say that circumcision would be great nightmare material.
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- Sheryl Polomka 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by garyv
  
  Maybe he's realizing it will be the last time he'll see that for a while?
  
  Although if you're a boy I'd say that circumcision would be great nightmare material.
  
  Oooooh yeah, circumcision would be cause for nightmares I would imagine - ouch!
  
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  seasoned 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka
  
  Oooooh yeah, circumcision would be cause for nightmares I would imagine - ouch!
  
  Yeah, that's ANOTHER! Some IDIOT said they can't feel pain, YEAH RIGHT(sarc). And the tissue they cut off is some of the most sensitive. And the way it was described to me as a kid is VERY different from the truth. HERE is a GREAT explanation of the stupid MYTH, and reality:
  
  http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/garcia/
  
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- jacktackett 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by garyv
  
  Maybe he's realizing it will be the last time he'll see that for a while?
  
  Although if you're a boy I'd say that circumcision would be great nightmare material.
  
  Gary, circumcision is definitely traumatic - I know I couldn't walk for about 14 months after I had mine.....
  
  --Jack
  
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  seasoned 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jacktackett
  
  Gary, circumcision is definitely traumatic - I know I couldn't walk for about 14 months after I had mine.....
  
  --Jack
  
  WOW, that WAS traumatic. I was walking less than 11 months after mine. But STILL, I know what it must have felt like.
  
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  KimW 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by KenThompson
  
  First... don't call me Shirley...
  
  Secondly... LMAO
  
  hoohoo?
  
  Come again, please?
  
  Ken
  
  LMAO, you beat me to it Ken!
  
  Originally Posted by jacktackett
  
  Gary, circumcision is definitely traumatic - I know I couldn't walk for about 14 months after I had mine.....
  
  --Jack
  
  Jack,
  I can relate, I was walking sooner than 14 months, but at least I wasn't dragging the ground anymore.
  
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  KenThompson 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jacktackett
  
  Gary, circumcision is definitely traumatic - I know I couldn't walk for about 14 months after I had mine.....
  
  --Jack
  
  14 months, only?
  
  Hell, I still have a hard time talking. And if I EVER find out who that
  doctor was... "So how 'bout it punk. Feeling lucky, today"?
  
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mattlaclear

14 years ago

Did someone really use an example of Family Guy to prove babies have nightmares?

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seasoned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mattlaclear

Did someone really use an example of Family Guy to prove babies have nightmares?

Give me a break! It showed a simple thing, delivery, as a possibly scary thing. I was merely saying that that could be recounted of modifed to be a nightmare.

I also used smallville, and my own fears.

Gee, you use a movie to illustrate, and it gets blown up out of proportion. I guess next you'll say that watching a scary movie, that is fiction, or seeing a scary description and picture, can't be used to create a nightmare.

BTW OBVIOUSLY someone ELSE saw the connection if it made it to something they actually PRODUCED!

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Andie

14 years ago

oh what a funny bunch y'all are this morning...thanks for the grins..

and, i think it is 'woohoo' and hopefully they won't BE seeing that particular one again *ewww*

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Andie

oh what a funny bunch y'all are this morning...thanks for the grins..

and, i think it is 'woohoo' and hopefully they won't BE seeing that particular one again *ewww*

A

No, I think hoohoo is correct. woohoo means YIPPIE or YEAH!

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garyv 14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

No, I think hoohoo is correct. woohoo means YIPPIE or YEAH!

Yep, they all mean the same to me!
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perfectlovehere

14 years ago

I wonder what they'd dream about. How would they know to be scared?

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seasoned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by perfectlovehere

I wonder what they'd dream about. How would they know to be scared?

WOW, you mean babies aren't EVER scared??
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  Kurt 14 years ago
  
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  They have no nightmares - because they don`t know about sex, drugs, money, jobs and taxes
  
  But they may have older siblings...
  
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gareth

14 years ago

Of course they bloody do - how stupid.

they have feelings, they have dreams, they have nightmares.

What do they have nightmares about ?

Giant jars of vaseline, things moving fast, getting dropped etc.

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seasoned

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Intrepreneur

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Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

As a child, I would see creatures in shadows, or have fear from seeing some pictures of "greys"(A type of ET alien representation often small with large eyes, a large head, clam like hands, VERY strong, etc...) in a magazine. I didn't have any unreasonable reactions, insist on lights, or have nightmares from THEM, but I certainly COULD have.

Gotta LOVE the random words in CAPITAL letters. They just SEEM to be a part of your character now Steve.

WITHOUT them where would we be?

You REALLY think it is just random? I used

A. because they were the beginning of sentences. OK,, the one between the parenthesis isn't a proper sentence, but I guess I thought it COULD be.
VERY... to emphasize. Should I have said "very very"?
THEM. because I wanted to say I have had nightmares, but not from the thing I earlier listed.
COULD. was simply to emphasize.

I guess I could say that YOU randomly capitalized it as well.

BTW a person recently emailed his list, which I am on, and I saw something interesting. In a moment I will quote it, and you can see what is interesting. I should first emphasize that this guy does NOT know me, and I never sent him an email!

In other words, extreme diets WILL help you lose weight fast…

…but much of that weight WILL be muscle! That’ s not what you want!

The secret is to modify the TIMING of your calories as well as modify the AMOUNT of your calories based upon a “sliding scale” for your personal needs.

Are THOSE supposedly random ALSO? He seems to be using the same pattern I do!
WILL to emphasize
TIMING to emphasize
AMOUNT to emphasize

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Intrepreneur

14 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

You REALLY think it is just random? I used

A. because they were the beginning of sentences. OK,, the one between the parenthesis isn't a proper sentence, but I guess I thought it COULD be.
VERY... to emphasize. Should I have said "very very"?
THEM. because I wanted to say I have had nightmares, but not from the thing I earlier listed.
COULD. was simply to emphasize.

I guess I could say that YOU randomly capitalized it as well.

Steve

As RANDOM as they come.

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Pauline60

14 years ago

I didn't think babies had nightmares as i assumed you had to have bad experiences to produce nightmares. Of course at that age they cannot tell us. None of my kids ever had them, despite having me as a mother and I have nightmares almost every time I sleep.

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Megan Elizabeth

14 years ago

I can't really remember my nightmares from when I was a child, nor can I really remember the nightmares I have now. But I have this one nightmare, which is very hard to explain, and it has been a reoccurring nightmare of mine since I was a child. I used to have it frequently as a child, fortunately this has decreased with my age (perhaps because I have more on my mind to worry and think about?) but every time I have this nightmare, I wake up terrified and unable to fall back asleep and my heart rate accelerates dramatically.

Can you imagine if I had this nightmare as an infant?

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thunderbird

14 years ago

Maybe some images are hardwired into the human mind? It is well known that baby bats -- closely related to primates -- have an instinctive fearful reaction to owls, their natural predators, even when they'd never been exposed to them.

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gareth

14 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Maybe some images are hardwired into the human mind? It is well known that baby bats -- closely related to primates -- have an instinctive fearful reaction to owls, their natural predators, even when they'd never been exposed to them.

Kittens are instinctively fearful of great height as assessed in psych labs.

Through my experimentation with torturing cats I have found kittens to be instinctively fearful when you raise both hands and pull a funny grimace bearing your fangs.

Much like a ghoul or goblin about to devour a nymph.

Also if you hold a hammer behind your back and call a cat, even nicely - they know.

This means cats understand deception and murderous intent. No doubt a consequence of their hunting instinct.

Cats know, people.

They know "BEFORE" you splurt their brains out - now thats freaky.

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