Liberal Mormon

Last night I made a mistake. It was a small one, but a mistake none the less. I watched a suspense movie with some graphic scenes very late at night, in the dark, by myself. All of which are a very bad combo for me personally. Why? Because I have a very graphic imagination. My mind takes things, and just processes them over and over again. I'm not scared of the dark. In fact, I can't sleep at night, unless it's pitch black. However, when I watch a movie that involves graphic imagery, my brain just won't let it go.So why am I bring this up? Well I watched I Am Legend last night, a very good movie. I like it. This was the 2nd time I've seen it, so I KNEW what it was about, and the images involved, I just had a desire to watch it, however, I choose the wrong time to watch it. So, I finished watching it and what happened? I couldn't sleep cause my mind kept thinking about these crazy ass psycho semi-human beings that would come out at night and attack humans. In the movie any type of light hurts these beings skins so what did I do? I turned on the damn light in the hallway and tossed and turned till I passed out around 4 A.M. My wife told me tonight before she went to sleep "Don't forget to turn the hallway light off when you go to sleep, you forgot last night". I kept thinking to myself (today) why the *#$@ would I leave the light on? And sitting here I remembered and it occurred to me, that many kids are not scared of the dark. They're afraid of their imaginations, as I am. Children's little minds, like mine take these images they see from all sorts of media and it just processes and creates scary thoughts and images in their brain and they can't sleep. It's not that it's dark, it's that they THINK something is out there.

So if you have a kid with a crazy imagination and they have a hard time sleeping, be patient with them or limit what watch.