Teddy Bears???

[Guest joey]

Ok, i'm still considered a little kid, i have a teddy bear that i cant fall asleep without. i feel like its pathetic i STILL have teddy bear. i was just wondering if anyone has or had an object like a stuffed toy or baby blanket that theyre attacted to for some reason? also if u had one how old were u when u gave it up?

[Guest JayJaye]

Gave up the blanky a long time ago; now I sleep with dogs.

Jay

[Guest J-Walker]

I've always been that way. I still sleep with a teddy bear at night now and I just graduated from high school last year. I sucked on a pacifier until I was 6. I think it's more of a security blanket than anything. If I'm sleeping in a bed with someone else I'm fine (lol). I just don't like to sleep alone.

No need to feel embarrassed. It's a private thing and no reason to feel ashamed. The more comfortable you become with yourself and the world around you, the less you'll need to attach to anything other than you. It's just apart of life. (:

[Guest Huff]

Ok, i'm still considered a little kid, i have a teddy bear that i cant fall asleep without. i feel like its pathetic i STILL have teddy bear. i was just wondering if anyone has or had an object like a stuffed toy or baby blanket that theyre attacted to for some reason? also if u had one how old were u when u gave it up?

I gave my baby blanket up when I was 15 and went away to high school. My younger sister went to the same school and brought hers with her. She's married now, and the blankie came with. I have a stuffed bear on my bed right now. He's a recent addition. Mostly, I think he's funny. I also use him to prop books up so that I can read in bed without my glasses.

So, is having a bear 'grown up'? I don't think it matters. Is it manly? Probably not 'John Wayne' masculine... but girls like sensitive guys better anyway.

MK

[Guest Seth]

I have a tattered old baby blanket that I still sleep with (if I don't knock it off my bed in the middle of the night).

[Guest Quinn]

When I was a baby, I was given "The Bunny Blankey". A blanket covered with pictures of little rabbits and the like. I loved it. I took it everywhere. Couldn't sleep without it. Every night when my dad tucked me in, he actually had a big entrance just for that blanket. "And nooooww....the BUUUNNNYYY BLANKEYY!" as if announcing a wrestler into a ring or something, xD. But when we moved from New York to Georgia, I lost it. I was 6 years old then.

So I got a new blanket! It felt and even smelt the same, was the same size and all, it just had baby Mickey, Minny, and Pluto on it.

I'm turning seventeen this Halloween, and I still sleep with that blanket. I'm distraught trying to think of how I'm going to manage relationships with people or whatnot when I still have the Gosh darned thing. xD Aw well.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I slept with a blanket up until around the middle of college. It wasn't like I couldn't sleep without it. I just liked it. Right now I have this one pillow that I hug when I go to sleep. It's a replacement for the dog, who is too smelly and snores too loudly to sleep in my bed.

English Bulldog in your bed = No sleep

[Guest harvester52]

I'll bet I can top the 'weird-thing-to-sleep-with' chart. Every night, I sleep snuggled up with my 8 channel Behringer soundboard.

It looks like this:

I can't sleep without that thing right by me.

[Guest Seth]

Ow?

[Guest Jackson]

I'd kill myself if I slept with something like that soundboard.

I can't remember when I gave up sleeping with stuffed animals. I was in my teens. Probably went through a phase in my twenties with one too. Now I just have the requisite dog. (See icon at left.) He's quite the bed hog though. He also has a penchance for stealing the pillows.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I'll bet I can top the 'weird-thing-to-sleep-with' chart. Every night, I sleep snuggled up with my 8 channel Behringer soundboard.

It looks like this:

I can't sleep without that thing right by me.

BC, you win.

That thing would hurt pretty bad if you rolled over on it. Do you ever wake up with knob prints on your face?

[Guest Cody_T]

I had a blanket up until I was like 12... I think I may still own it, but I haven't slept with it in quite a while

I now have a body pillow that I have named Katya, my pillow boyfriend (after scrubs, of course ), but I don't sleep with him all of the time.

[Guest Evan_J]

No, I got mine taken away pretty soon. I substituted women when I grew up I hated sleeping alone. However I realized somewhere along the way (toward the end of my marriage) that I really had to get over the whole "not wanting to sleep alone thing"- it was an indicator of feeling insecure (this is me not you) and so I opted to work on that.

[Guest James_]

I've been with my spouse for over 20 years and I have a stuffed siamese cat (not a real one! grin) that I slept with untill a few years ago. The only reason I stopped was that "Dream Kitty" (grin) was getting so tatty I was afraid his head would fall off. He now resides in a glass display case, right outside the bedroom door.

It may not be about not wanting to sleep alone, it may be about physical comfort. You just get used to things. I still have to sleep with a pillow or wadded-up blanket to take his place, even with my guy there. And my chinchilla, who like to sleep on my head.

[Guest harvester52]

I have indeed woken up with knob prints on my face, but I'm a pretty still sleeper and have been sleeping with that soundboard since I was thirteen.

The worst was when I had slept with my face on it all night, and had a perfect imprint of one of the XLR inputs (the black round ones at the top corner) on my chin. It got all red-dotted-looking, and all my friends gave me crap about it for weeks, saying it was a 'soundboard hickie'.

[Guest Huff]

BC- the soundboard is awesome... that is hardcore Tim Allen manly. *grunts*

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MK

[Guest CharliTo]

I'll bet I can top the 'weird-thing-to-sleep-with' chart. Every night, I sleep snuggled up with my 8 channel Behringer soundboard.

It looks like this:

I can't sleep without that thing right by me.

...ooo....i'm usually the field sound technician for film shoots so...whenever i see mixers or soundboard, i drool.

*drool*

[Guest mystiktiger]

hey don't swaet it. i have a baby blanket that my grandmother hand made for me when i was born. i slept with it until i was 23. i don't sleep with it anymore because it's getting pretty old and worn, so instead i have it in a special box on my headboard right above my head and i'm almost 28. it's just a comfort knowing that it is there.

[Guest Tayler]

The only reason that I gave up my no nose bright pink teddy bear dubbed with the name ~Pinky~ Was because when my mother was trying to "fix" me shipped it to me at the childrens hospital and on my return trip home >> ~still broken~ the air line lost him. I couldn't sleep without him and refussed to go anywhere unless he could come too. I was 15 when he was bear napped. Now even with my girl friend I snuggle my plush pillow with the Saiyuki guys on both sides.