Night Terrors
Zag had a rough night last night–sort of half woke up several times, distressed about something that I could never quite work out. I just settled and calmed him down, tucked him back in, and went back to bed myself.
This morning, he woke up upset and crying again. When I went, I asked if he had been having some bad dreams, and he said no, it was real. I asked what was wrong, and I finally got a clear answer:
“I don’t like miso soup on my cereal!”
Well, who would?
He was fairly interested when I explained to him that most people have milk on their cereal, and a few people like orange juice on their cereal, but that I didn’t know of anyone who had miso soup with their cereal.
Also: who’s been going around tormenting the kid with cereal with Miso Soup? Have you no decency?
April 11th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Woah. A couple of months ago, K and I were staying with some friends on the other side of the state, and one morning (while still in a post-sleep stupor) I reached for a container of what I thought was soy milk to pour on my granola. To my confusion, a mostly-clear liquid came out onto my wholesome breakfast. Why? Because some genious packaging engineer thought it would be a good idea to package CHICKEN BROTH in the same sort of jumbo juice-box container that soy milk usually comes in. The horror!
On a hunch, I just googled “miso soup carton,” with the following result:
http://growersandgrocers.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/misosoup.jpg
This is clearly a nightmare waiting to happen. Thank goodness we have Zag to warn us about this imminent danger!
April 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
From what I understand about night terrors, it may have been impossible to fully awaken Zag, there may not have been an understandable dream (but only a powerful sense of fear), and he may have no later memory of the event. Next time, maybe just try to ease him back to full sleep without trying to get an explanation.
The miso-soup-on-cereal concern may have been a separate, later dream – but an understandably troubling one!
Also, I can relate to Juan’s experience. This kind of thing has brought me very close to putting vegetable juice in my coffee.