Sleeping with stuffed animal = better dreams!

[moogle]

[Snape]

My old cat used to sleep at the end of my bed, purring loudly. I always found this quite comforting - I suppose you could say this was the TBE at work, as I always found it difficult to sleep after he died. Now I sleep with the fan on, perhaps that's another from of TBE.

I like the idea of TBE, it kind of encapsulates the concept of a placebo without having any negative undertones - and at the same time it captures the soft and cuddly feeling that you sometimes get when your bed feels extra cozy and comfortable.

Mmmmmmmmm, TBE.

[Kava]

I dont sleep with a stuffed animal, but I do sleep with my miniture dovermen, I cant sleep without him.

[Argitoth]

I like this thread.

[VisionDreamz]

I like it too Argitoth.

Snape, I really think your right to expand TBE in such a way to encapsulate other objects or noises in the room. I think that is indeed some form of TBE right there.

Area51, I think you may be addicted to your little dog

Anyone want to make an official definition of TBE?

[Bruno]

I'd say TBE is a modality of the autosuggestion technique in which you use a real object as a concrete expression of your autosuggested will so as to reinforce the power of the autosuggestion.

[painocus]

I falled asleap looking at a stoft bear made me tink of kenai when i woke up.
SHAME ON YOU KENAI FOR SPAMING MY MIND

[Argitoth]

[Snape]

I would have thought you couldn't really define TBE without at least mentioning the word 'placebo', considering this is how the definition seems to have originated.
Perhaps something like:
TBE: "The effect or emotions stimulated by an object or particular frame of mind, similar to the comforting placebo effect caused by a Teddy Bear on a sleeping child."
Or something thereabouts.

[Redifin]

I still don't believe it to work. You guys have to expirement, and get a lot of results. I still think it's a Placebo.

[Bruno]

Redifin, the definition for placebo is something like "a method or medication that works, although it shouldn't", so you believe the same thing as we do^^

[baskotoiea]

still have my teddybear from when i was 3 or 4 i too am 17
i do agree that it makes for better dreams ^_^

[Snape]

[Anything goes in my dream]

*runs to the storage area to get the stuffed platypus I had when I was 4* <- true story right there

[Huey]