Sitting. Awake. In the dark. Weird right?

Ok from my other posts everyone would know I have just transitioned my DD to her own bed in her own room after co sleeping. It is going really well, she is waking less and settling into sleep so much easier. I finding it harder but that is not what this post is about

So

I have the monitor by my bed and at around midnight I can't stand it anymore and go and peek at her since she hasn't made a peep in hours.

She is sitting up. Wide awake. In the dark. Hands in her lap. Staring right at me once my eyes adjust to the dark room.

Wtf!? I laid her down and she was instantly back to sleep.

A little freaked out I go back to bed. At 3am I wake up and can't resist checking her again.

She is sitting up. Wide awake. In the dark. Hands in her lap. Staring right at me once my eyes adjust to the dark room.

Again she goes straight back to sleep once I lay her down and doesn't stir till morning.

Is this normal? Is she sleeping at all or just sitting in the dark waiting for me all night but not calling out!?!? Or am I just spidey sensing when she is awake? I am really freaked out. DP is worried she is too scared to call out but she doesn't seem scared.... Just calmly sitting and.... Waiting???

So weird. So so weird.

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Hmm, is it possible the door is waking her up, so she is bolts right up? And how is she in the morning, does it seem like she has had a good night sleep?

I wondered about the door but DP has oiled it and checked it so it is pretty much silent. And she seems so .... Casual and comfy? Not like she has just sat up you know?

She seems well rested, her sleeping patterns have always been crazy but they seem to be better now.

It just really bothered me that BOTH times she was doing it. I keep telling myself I just caught her in between re settling herself but it is so weird I can't stop thinking about it. I want to check her so bad but don't want to wake her up... And tbh I think I would be a bit scared if her if she was waiting for me in the dark again! Lol


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Is she really awake? Or is it like sleep walking but sleep sitting instead? I can see how whatever it is, it would feel pretty unsettling!

I might guess though that as you are both so used to each other's night rhythms that maybe you are just sensing that she's awake and walking in just as she's sat herself up? She certainly doesn't sound upset or worried.

Wow it's so interesting - look forward to hearing if it continues!

I'm sorry.... But that just gave me chills!!!

What the!?

I suppose she could be not really awake. I have found her asleep sitting up once since we started using the big bed.

Yes! I was actually quite terrified of her for a few moments ( I straight away thought she was possessed... I am deeply ashamed of that now but it was so freaky)

I am going to check her now. I can't stand it. If she is doing it again I may never sleep again.


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I wish I hadnt just read this before I try to go to bed LOL sorry but I have goosebumps. If she stands and starts walking backward I would get concerned.

Having said that, my DS has done this before. Except he would be standing in his cot, leaning on the rail so only his littl eyes were peering over the edge. Totally silent, scared the hell out of me the first time because I was looking for a sleep bub laying down and saw eyes staring at me.

Oh my goodness I'm terrified for you! Please be lying down Meercat's DD! Haha! I just had to take my phone to the toilet with me for extra light cos I was scared! Haha

I am glad I'm not the only one who is scared by it!

DP wants to put a camera in her room to make sure she is sleeping but that is a little too "paranormal activity" for me. I am already having to for myself a pep talk just to check her in case she is doing the creepy Mr Burns hands again!

Ok she is fast asleep! Laying down and not looking creepy thank god! Man I feel so silly, it doesn't even come up when I google it. Yes I googled "toddler awake sitting up not crying" a million times!


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Oh my goodness I'm terrified for you! Please be lying down Meercat's DD! Haha! I just had to take my phone to the toilet with me for extra light cos I was scared! Haha

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Hahahaha when I checked her I had
my phone night light on! I was totally expecting to see two little eyes like when you catch a cat in your bin!!!


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hahaha scary and funny all at once! I would say she is asleep. My mum said that she would sometimes check on me and i would be sitting up 'awake' in bed. She would just tell me to lie back down and go to sleep - i would and that was that...sleeping 'sitting' i guess! never got out of bed or anything!

shivers. LOL! Now I am too scared to check my baby... but she wouldnt be sittinG! hahahaah...

dr google didn't come up with aything?

Meercat, kids have to learn to be afraid of the dark. If you are a one-year old, there is nothing "spooky" or paranormal about the dark. Little kids don't get freaked by it the way adults do.... Here's hoping she settles down for you :)

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Meercat, kids have to learn to be afraid of the dark. If you are a one-year old, there is nothing "spooky" or paranormal about the dark. Little kids don't get freaked by it the way adults do.... Here's hoping she settles down for you :)

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That is so very true!!!


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My eldest used to do all sorts of strange things during his sleep. Including walking, getting up (and nearly peeing in the cupboard), and carrying on entire conversations whilst deeply asleep.

They do tend to grow out of it eventually!

Sleep sitting - LOL.

I caught bilby doing same last night - once (but she has a night light on). i suspected she was really asleep, but with eyes open.

first time

Ok I am really going to freak people out now!

Just found her standing by her bed!

I think she is doing her own little version of sleep walking? She was fast asleep, but standing up. I just laid her back down and she was snoring away.




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Oh man... I have really gotta stop reading this thread at night time!

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Oh man... I have really gotta stop reading this thread at night time!

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Hahaha me too!!

I reckon it is sleep walking or something then!


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My ds has done this a few times. I've watched him sit up, sit for a bit then he will eventually lay back down. It's like he's finding a comfy spot again.
Maybe next time watch her and see what she does? She might do the same.

If her head starts rotating 360* while you're watching her tho (think the exorcist), best take her to see a Dr... Or a priest. ;)

On a side note, glad the transition went smoothly (sorta... Well there are no tears so it's a win in my books XD)

Right now I am totally freaked out!! What do her eyes look like? Like, does she look 'vacant'? That's even scarier when they are looking at you but it's like they are looking through you....
Damn, how am I supposed to get back to sleep now???

This is quite common in children.
My DD used to have night terrors - she would be asleep but her eyes open and walking around the house terrified, screaming & crying. It freaked me out at first but once we read up on it and understood it, it made sense. Never try to wake them, it just prolongs it.

It really is no big deal. I still do this every now and then. DS1 has made me lie down a couple of times and takes great delight in telling me he "looked after me last night". It is a form of sleepwalking.

I saw this on tv once. There was this little girl who would sit in her bed in the dark either doing nothing (just sitting and staring) or she would "talk" and interact with invisible people :o. Her parents were really freaked out. It really looked like she was possessed or talking to ghosts or something. So they took her in for testing. And the test showed that she indeed was asleep during these episodes! In a really, really deep sleep. So it was a form of "sleep walking". It was her way to process what has happened during the day.

I used to sleep walk, too. I went to the toilet or played with my toys or just sat there looking creepy... :lol:. Mum just put me back to bed and I just continued sleeping there. The next day I have no memory of what had happened. I still do it today. DP says so, anyway. Sometimes I get up and get a drink, then have a full-on conversation with him and then go back to sleep. The next day when he wants to "continue" our conversation, I have NO memory of it! :o Freaks both of us out. Needless to say we have no secrets in our relationship. I couldn't keep one if I tried. Who knows what I will be saying during my sleep walk! Hehe

I'm home alone and totally freaked out after reading this!!!

I sleep talk ALOT. I apparently even yelled at DP once not long after DD was born and we were living in Ronald McDonald House as she was staying the Royal Children's.
I tried to take the blankets off his bed and he calmly (he's used to be doing strange stuff) told me that my blankets were next to me and that I was taking his.
I told him strongly that i needed them. He asked me why and told to me to get my own. I proceded to yell at him and tell him that I needed it so I could go to the ward and see DD. Weird stuff. :-)
Not long after DD finally came home from hospital he was up changing her during the night and I wandered out of our room, into her room and into the lounge room. DP called out to me but I just staggered back to bed. I don't recall any of it.

:rofl: this is a funny thread. Creepy children! I can just imagine you standing outside the door trying to work up the courage to go in. Would freak me right out too!!

Glad the transition is going well apart from this though.

Heheheheh this is hilarious. I'd be SO creeped out too. I used to get chills when DD was a newborn and was all starey eyed in the dark. But that hands in lap sitting would absolutely terrify me. Ahh we are so silly.
I guess lots of kids do it, but not all parents check in, you know? Maybe stop checking in on her!

This thread had me giggling.

Once I was at my ex boyfriends house, and we were having a nap, or he was. I remember him turning towards me, asleep, but his eyes were wide open and rolling. He was sleeping with his eyes open, it freaked me right out.

But yes, what your daughter is doing is normal. It sounds like she is sleep walking, but not actually walking. I used to sleep walk when I was a child.

I sleep with my eyes open all the time. DP is always on at me about it. I'll turn to him. Stare for a second. And lay back down with my eyes still open.
He hates it!

This thread, sorry Meercat but LOL to the 'catching a cat in your bin' ...

I reckon it sounds like she is asleep and sitting up, and then with the newest of standing on her bed... that could be that she is thinking about her new skill of being able to walk everywhere in her shoes that light up that she is even doing it in her sleep!

She is still amazing (I am not bias at all being her favourite Aunty - I can write this here where the other Aunties wont see haha!), and not sleep deprived (just you are atm :P) ... hope you dont have to put a lock on the outside of her bedroom door incase she starts to leave her room in her sleep!

I know this sounds horrible, but my mum made me wear grobags (sleeping bags) to bed, so I wouldn't be able to walk too far when sleepwalking! She would always wake up from the "thud" when I fell over, so she could put me straight back to bed. Without the grow bag she wouldn't "hear" me moving through the house, so she couldn't stop me from doing something dangerous. :lol: Oh the joys of motherhood, hey?

I too think that she's sleep walking. If she is not blinking when her eyes are open then no doubt she is sleepwalking. I used to do this all the time as a kid, as did my brother. Mum used to gently guide us back to bed and we'd go straight back to sleep. We'd have no idea it was happening. The only time we'd get freaked out was if we got woken up and then we'd cry. Mum said it used to get worse when we were stressed or if something in our lives changed. So my brothers got really bad when we moved from Sydney to Tenterfield. Mum found him out in the middle of our street one night! Not to freak you out :D He was 7. Ahh, the funny things both my brother and I have done when sleep walking :D

Anyway, point is, as long as your gentle and she isn't woken it won't bother her at all. Just freak you out :D

One day my brother (5 at the time) stood in front of my mum's bed with a knife and a fork in his hands and said: "I want to eat you". :o :rofl: Creepy much? :lol:

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One day my brother (5 at the time) stood in front of my mum's bed with a knife and a fork in his hands and said: "I want to eat you". :o :rofl: Creepy much? :lol:

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One day my brother (5 at the time) stood in front of my mum's bed with a knife and a fork in his hands and said: "I want to eat you". :o :rofl: Creepy much? :lol:

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OMG!

Ever heard of "Sleep Talkin Man"? Google him - he says weird stuff in his sleep like: "Right. So, I've punched the singing telegram. Now all I need to do is throw up on the cake. Party time!" and "Turtle burgers for everyone! Even you, veggie scum."

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DD sleeps with her eyes half open also. But definitely would freak me out if she sat on her bed looking awake because the Exorcist scarred me for life when i watched it when i was too young to.

Anyway, DD and DH talk in their sleep alot, and i mean total conversation. I think it is hereditary because my FIL also talks in his sleep. Not only does he talk in his sleep he also have punch ups in his sleep. FIL is now sleeping on the floor because MIL is sick of being punched and kicked in bed LOL.