Did anyone else have a very strange night's sleep the night before last? That would have been Saturday night, the 19th.
Lucas woke up in crazy crying fits from 11pm until 2:30ish. When he first started to wail and cry, I went in his room to soothe him and he seemed like he was still asleep, even though his eyes were open and he was crying. When I tried to pick him up, he pitched a fit and tried to shake me off. I tried offering him water and he knocked it out of my hand. He wouldn't let me hold him or put him down – if you can imagine trying to navigate that one. There was no reasoning with him, because he wasn't actually awake.
He's actually had these nighttime fits a number of times before, but they were always very brief and he'd go back to sleep for the rest of the night. This time, he'd settle for five minutes and then it would start all over again. I finally crawled into bed with him and that close physical contact seemed to soothe him a bit. His sleep was very fitful, though, and he still woke up, but it was every fifteen or twenty minutes instead of every five. (Remember, this isn't an infant we're talking about. He'll be three next week, for crying out loud.)
At one point, three hours into this dance, I had fallen asleep when he woke again suddenly with another panicked cry. I was not fully awake, and I had the sensation of him being pulled up and away from me. Of course his body was lying right there on the bed, but the sensation was of him being pulled away. I instinctively threw my arm across him and grabbed onto him tightly. He instantly calmed down and fell right back to sleep. A little while later, he crawled down off the bed, still asleep, and stretched out face-down on the floor. It was about 2:30 in the morning at this point, and he slept there peacefully the rest of the night.
My sense of it is that he needed to feel grounded. I don't know what was going on energetically to make me think he was being pulled away, but when I shared this with a young woman who is also very sensitive, she shared that she'd experienced that same exact feeling that night. She couldn't sleep, no matter what, and she felt like she was being pulled out of her body.
Anyone know what was going on? Did it have to do with the lead-up to today's autumnal equinox?
Sometimes life over here is like living in the Twilight Zone.
7 comments:
wow...poor you! id find that completely stressful. helplessness i guess. it reminds me of astral projection, with the going up and away.. does he ever remember any of it later on?
i had a really poor nights sleep, very restless and kept waking up looking for my boyfriend. i had wierd dreams, that didnt scare me but made me very uncomfortable. strange faces coming toward me..white mask type faces on long limbless bodies, and then a dream of my ex boyfriend who died 3 years ago, he looked like he would now as if he had aged and changed hairstyles etc..we chatted a lot, not that i can remember what about. i remember missing him a lot and realising i could see him if i wanted, knowing where he was, and all i had to do was go..(which when i woke up i immediately thought about how true that is) and so i did, with help of my mum, and a two random women who iv never met before, in houses iv never seen before, where normally my head puts me in a house i already, if vaguely, with people i recognise, for comfort? anyway.. yeah..but no real physical pulling away feelings.
im glad lucas has someone who understands him. i think of the kid i baby sit, shes 7 now, but iv looked after her sinse she was 18 months old, i stay over and so i used to wake up with her through the night. her parents would shout at her, or get frustrated if something like that happened. theyre very bad parents anyway, and im the only real 'adult' who gives her steady routine when she sees me, and so she responds really well to me... so i feel real relief for lucas knowing you understand him and worry for him rather than getting annoyed your not getting your full nights sleep.
god im tired.
sorry. got lost in my head.
what i meant to say at the end was..
ill look into it, crystal douse about it and generally ask my intuitive mind see what i come up with. im too tired to ask now, but i can feel it ready to answer, i just need to be less tired, well fed and concentrating, ill get back to you when im happy with the answer.
iv tried checking spiritlibrary, but didnt find anything on the 19th, the 9th there was a lot..but that was it.
speak soon,
liz
It was the Dark Moon. Have you noticed this before around this time? Worth considering.
Oh! I'll look at the calendar next time! This was the worst one, but like I said, it's happened plenty of times before in a milder way. When I think of the way the moon pulls at the tides, it's certainly not a stretch to imagine it pulling on our energy bodies in different ways as it makes its way through its cycle. Hmmm... Thanks for this perspective!
Hi Liz~ Did you see Mon's response below? Dark moon. Interesting, huh?
Thanks for your kind words. I'm sure the 7-year-old is very lucky to have you in her life to understand her, as well.
Cheers!
Alexis
Also, whilst Full Moon heightens emotions, DM can scatter them, creates chaotic, directionless energy.
My kids were fine last weekend, but I did not sleep well for several nights leading up to the equinox. I do think it is worth watching for moon patterns. In my own case, I usually am more restless at full moon than dark moon (latent werewolf tendencies perhaps???) But it was definitely a jam-packed weekend energy-wise, that is for sure.
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