Well I suppose I be somewhat fortunate in that I haven't experienced such a flooding nor anything similar that I can recall. Still, I doubt I'd have been very happy surrounded by water either. Still, the Horizon documentary about dreams that was on tonight suggested childhood nightmares are a useful learning mechanism to prepare for us for the dangers of life. An infuriating documentary though, just as it seemed to start to get onto interesting territory it went off somewhere else leaving us with little of the scientific detail or something new I might have learned and just making generalised and obvious conclusions. Grrs. Ah well. Still it sounds to me, not that I'm any kind of expert of course, that you has the balance of protection and learning down pretty well for your little ones. :)
Not sure if anything would have stopped me worrying. I don't recall having anything much of that nature anyways. Even the times I shared rooms with other family didn't seem to help much anyways. I just used to try and stay awake a lot, though of course I could never keep myself awake all night and I used to see faces and hear strange noises in the dark anyways so it wasn't much of a help. Still I did grow out of that although I still get faintly unnerved by things like the ticking sounds of my watch (a sound that frequently would unnerve me when little) and I will often see shifting abstract patches of colour in the dark, mostly blues and greens, though they no longer resolve themselves into anything scary. Still my fearful and anxious nature is something that has been with me since a particularly young age methinks.
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branchandroot
Re: vivid imagination
Date: 2009-02-11 02:37 am (UTC)Not sure if anything would have stopped me worrying. I don't recall having anything much of that nature anyways. Even the times I shared rooms with other family didn't seem to help much anyways. I just used to try and stay awake a lot, though of course I could never keep myself awake all night and I used to see faces and hear strange noises in the dark anyways so it wasn't much of a help. Still I did grow out of that although I still get faintly unnerved by things like the ticking sounds of my watch (a sound that frequently would unnerve me when little) and I will often see shifting abstract patches of colour in the dark, mostly blues and greens, though they no longer resolve themselves into anything scary. Still my fearful and anxious nature is something that has been with me since a particularly young age methinks.