So, yeah, "it's totally healthy for children to have a comfort object," says Alex Dimitriu, M. It may seem like sleeping with a stuffed animal or baby blanket is embarrassing after childhood, but it's not: "It's completely normal," says Bash. If you're still judging, consider this: All the experts agree it's a lot healthier to seek comfort in a stuffed animal than in something like alcohol, drugs, or sex.
And because adequate sleep is so important, Rempala says that if a blanket or stuffed animal is part of how you create ideal conditions for falling asleep and staying asleep, that's a-okay. It's actively messing with your relationship. If you're looking to your baby blanket instead of your partner for support, there may be a problem—either with your dependence on the item or with the relationship itself, says New York City—based therapist Kathryn Smerling, Ph. Related: 8 Things That Could Hurt Your Relationship It means either your partner isn't providing the comfort to you that they should be, or you're actively choosing your childhood comfort object over your partner—which is symptomatic of larger intimacy issues, says Smerling.
It's holding you back. Bash also recommends asking yourself: "Does sleeping with this keep me isolated from other human beings? Is it something I actively work to hide? You really can't sleep without it. If you actively tell yourself and believe! Basically, being too reliant on the object as an adult is counterproductive to why you attached to the object as a child. If you decide you need or want to break up with Teddy, good news: Everyone is capable of sleeping naturally.
If it has become unhealthy, overcoming that habit is just a matter of being patient as you re-train yourself, says Dimitriu. He encourages his patients to practice sleeping on their own at least once in a while. Trying to ghost your comfort object probably won't work. After all, you have slept with this tattered thing for most of your life. That's why Bash also recommends working with a professional who can guide you throughout this process.
A therapist can help you address the why behind the dependence," she says. Here's how to go to therapy when you're broke AF. Bottom line: Is it unhealthy to sleep with a blankie or stuffed animal as an adult? To not have even a sheet covering my sleeping torso feels bizarre — outlandish, even. As humans, we are accustomed to sleeping under blankets from the time we are born: from being swaddled as babies, to being tucked into our beds as children.
While we may have out-grown those fears now, sub-consciously , we continue to relate a sense of security with blankets. Is This Normal? But, during the rapid eye movement REM -cycle of sleep, our serotonin levels decrease. The gentle pressure that blankets provide also stimulates serotonin production, and helps us sleep peacefully through REM-cycles. Experts also believe that our body loses its ability to regulate its temperature once we reach the REM-cycle.
Blankets keep us warm, and by covering ourselves with blankets, in essence, we are preventing our slumber from being interrupted by cold shivers in the middle of the night. It traps heat that escapes from the body at night, keeping the body warm. And since most people sleep with a blanket, the physical sensation of the blanket itself gets paired with sleep.
This means that simply being under a blanket can cause the brain and body to be primed for sleep. Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told The Healthy , explaining how the physiological component of sleeping under a blanket has become interlinked with the way we perceive blankets. Sleep tight, fellow blanket-lovers. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.
For as long as I can remember, my Blanki has been my best friend. In her cool softness, she helped me reconcile with all the people I was watching myself become. But part of being a grown-up is accepting the fact that there are always other selves popping up like weeds, pulling the consciousness in dizzying directions.
I may no longer be afraid of the dark come nighttime, but darkness has a way of creeping back; the simple of act of being a self, alone and whole, can at times feel nearly impossible. In those moments, I hold Blanki tight, working her frayed edges through my fingertips. The sensation is restoring, familiar, if not addicting. Like a stress ball or an inky doodle pen, my Blanki allows me to physically attempt to untangle the knot of anxieties in my head.
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