http://nathanielclark.org Mopping the floors of consciousness Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nathanielclark.org/2009/07/do-infants-dream-of-electric-milk-bottles/ http://nathanielclark.org/2009/07/do-infants-dream-of-electric-milk-bottles/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:48:55 +0000 nathaniel http://nathanielclark.org/?p=3 Sitting in bed, in the silver-blue glow of my laptop, watching my son sleep, soothing him first with sound when he wakes. Interestingly, more than half the time he wakes with a violent start, and starts crying immediately — before even opening his eyes. So I have to ask — is he having nightmares? Or is he simply hypersensitive to his situation– in the crib, not in the bed, and alone, no bodies next to him? I can’t decide. I know that he’s upset before he’s fully conscious. It makes me sad to think that a child of a mere 8 months could have anything in his head other than warm, fuzzy, liquid, fleshy happiness.

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