Zzzzzzz…
Well, around here, even with vaccinations and masks and being careful, the effect of just being in a world that has changed so radically has, let us say, caused a bit of insomnia in this household every now and again.
Oh, not for ME, but for mama and papa, who sometimes wake up three or four or five times a night, often, in mama’s case, from a dream in which crowds of anthros are unmasked or she has misplaced her car and has no mask to go look for it on a busy street, or she is completely lost and hasn’t a clue how to find papa or where she lives, and on and on and on. She also loses her purse sometimes and can’t find it. That old Freud would have a ball with some of mama’s reves.
Does this happen to anyone out there? The effects of this strange world are certainly evident in so many ways, so I guess it’s not such a surprise that anthro sleep patterns might be changed.
I seriously do not know what they are talking about!
Like you, Loulou, we can sleep anywhere, anytime. Our mom has always been a lousy sleeper and the way things are these days have not helped this situation. We hate hearing about your mom’s bad dreams, however. That is even more exhausting than not sleeping. Maybe you can help purr her to sleep. XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, angel Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
I will try that..she loves my purring calmness.
Loulou, my recent sleeplessness was caused by the incredible amount of change that’s happening in my life, and since Sweetie will sit on my chest and purr, I just open an audiobook, and let her purr me back to sleep.
Ah, ha, audiobooks! Papa can wear earplugs!
This world has knocked Dad way off his sleep and we are all following. What a strange new world
I wonder hiw it will all play out, but I think we shall all have to get some shuteye when it is better.
It’s pretty strange here too Loulou, but that’s a Southern thang!
Hey mama knows what southern thangs are…especially now in Texas. But Matthew McConaughey might run for governor!
The mom doesn’t have dreams like that but she does wake up several times during the night.
I guess my mama and your mama could call one another and chat, haha.
Well, my Mom says she’s sleeping better now that she’s not reading/watching news as much. It makes it hard for her to “turn her head off” at night if she has all that stuff rolling around in her brain. Also she thinks if a human is sleepy no matter what time of day it is, the human should SLEEP. Naps included. Their bodies tell them when they need rest – so she can take a 15 minute nap and feel GREAT when she wakes up. Just another sign that humans are very complicated right Loulou? I think WE cats have “THE LIFE”….!!!!
Hugs, Teddy
Wow, okay, my mama is fine with that, if she just wanted to sleep!
There’s a Bach Remedy for sleepless nights and also magnesium helps, LouLou, but maybe the Full Moon (today) had influences on her dreams and sleep, if so she’ll have peaceful sleep again soon. Here’s a Pawkiss for some well deserved sleep🐾😽💞
Btw have I already said that you look over-cute while you’re sleeping💗
Well, we have Bach Remedy and even one for ME, not for sleeping, of course, haha. Mama takes the Bach Remedy and zilch happens, but I think it’s because she loves to read so much that she keeps herself awake with the new book on Thomas Mann. Maybe she should read The Catique of Pure Reason….
I know how your mama feels, Loulou. I’ve also been experiencing a few distressing dreams and had the purse dream many times. I’m sure your mama and papa know this but if they wake up many times in the night, they should try a few slow breathing exercises. Hope that helps.
Oh, thank you, mama does THAT, too. I’m sounding like a bore, but she has tried everything. One thing does help – imagine you are flying out of a window of your house and to some place you’d love to visit…you fly through the air and hover over, Paris, let’s say, or Hawaii and the lovely water, and just travel around whever you wish to fly and that seems to work.
Sometimes. Maybe she’ll try South Africa!
Please do 🙂 What a lovely idea – kind of like Peter Pan.
Yes, nama will try to visit in her pre-sleep.
I haven’t had any dreams like that. If anything, I sleep more than ever including a nap. Maybe I am morphing into a cat. 🙂
If only mama knew how to do what you do. And mama always reads during a nap and thinks that if she sleeps, she won’t sleep at night. Either way, it’s all the same. Sleep in a nap, no sleep at night, DON’T SLEEP in a nap, no sleep at night. Maybe mama is morphing into a bat. No wait a minute, they sleep alot…
When our huMom has an afternoon nap she often has dreams about people she hasn’t seen in years and they are sort of realistic and make sense, and that makes her feel even more disoriented when she wakes up and in the afternoon she doesn’t like to drink too much coffee,
Well my mama drinks one tiny cup of espresso in the morning and in the afternoon she drinks about 1/8 of an inch of a cup of espresso and that’s all the coffee she ever drinks and even when she doesn’t drink coffee in the afternoon she still five times a night and dreams weird dreams. All suggestions welcome and it’s sort of nice to dream about people you know which is a lot better than some of the weird characters in mama’s dreams!
well, some of the people I know are pretty weir characters…
Haha, same here…