Audrey announced to me yesterday morning that she continues to have bad dreams about the evil queens in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty (she calls them evil stepmothers but I think that's in Cinderella, right?) and doesn't understand why the Dream Catcher can't catch those darned dreams and do away with them.
Who is the Dream Catcher? I had to ask as well. Turns out I was the one who hung the Dream Catcher from the mobile above her bed - he's a small figurine. Duh, dad.
He's supposed to pull the bad dreams out of the ether and let the good dreams percolate about for re-use. Although that's not how Audrey put it. He has a diamond, apparently, which takes the bad dreams, and a circle, which permits the good dreams. And he just hangs out up there doing his thing while she sleeps.
Anyway, these dreams about evil queens and what not have caused her to want to sleep in our bed a bit more lately, so naturally I took advantage of the opportunity to say, "Audrey, if you're not in your own bed, how in dreamland is the Dream Catcher going to catch your bad dreams? Certainly he's not going to be able to do so if you're all the way down the hall in our room!"
She did think on that for a moment, but then slept in our bed again last night. Maybe it's time to stop watching Disney movies for awhile. And if Disney movies are causing this, what are other movies going to do? We might need more dream catchers.
