Lately dad has been sleeping later into the day. For years now dad's sleeping schedule has been off. He stays up until all hours of the night and then sleeps until noon or later. When he first moved in with us, we would turn out lights at 10 p.m. and start heading to bed and he got into a better sleeping pattern. That didn't really last very long though, and lately it's been as late as 3:00 p.m. when he wakes up...and he still goes back for naps.
About a month ago when he came out of his room about 20 minutes after I had checked on him sleeping, I asked him how he'd slept and he told me he hadn't been sleeping, but was in talking to mom...mom has been gone for six years now. When it happened we were the only ones home, and I forgot to tell Eli about it later.
Then during the Christmas break, we were remodeling the main bathroom and were using dad's bathroom while the toilet was removed. We would quietly sneak in and out of his room being careful not to wake him...surprisingly all the banging didn't wake him either.
I guess once as Eli was passing through dad's room he had a similar experience, and dad wasn't all the way awake but seemed to be very coherent. That's when Eli told me his theory.
Eli thinks that in dad's dreams he is the dad I grew up with. That he is able to understand and do the things he is dreaming about and everything makes sense, so that's why he's been letting dad sleep longer. Why wake him up to the state of confusion he lives in.
About a month ago when he came out of his room about 20 minutes after I had checked on him sleeping, I asked him how he'd slept and he told me he hadn't been sleeping, but was in talking to mom...mom has been gone for six years now. When it happened we were the only ones home, and I forgot to tell Eli about it later.
Then during the Christmas break, we were remodeling the main bathroom and were using dad's bathroom while the toilet was removed. We would quietly sneak in and out of his room being careful not to wake him...surprisingly all the banging didn't wake him either.
I guess once as Eli was passing through dad's room he had a similar experience, and dad wasn't all the way awake but seemed to be very coherent. That's when Eli told me his theory.
Eli thinks that in dad's dreams he is the dad I grew up with. That he is able to understand and do the things he is dreaming about and everything makes sense, so that's why he's been letting dad sleep longer. Why wake him up to the state of confusion he lives in.
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