[wmwmwm]

I remember several times putting my eldest son to bed when he was a few months old and having this intrusive thought that maybe the reason why he was yelling was because he knew he wouldn’t remember today when he woke up the next day and that every day was like being reborn! Darker than a Black Mirror episode for sure! It only went away when he started developing more of his own personality

(This stuff + sleep deprivation is a heady cocktail!)

[comboy]

> he knew he wouldn’t remember today when he woke up the next day

How can he be afraid of the thing that happened yesterday if he doesn't remember yesterday?

[treeman79]

https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin_Sickness

A variation on Merlin Sickness.

[eatbitseveryday]

Better yet: do not feel as bad because kids won't remember. If you are sleep-training them and they cry for hours, they won't remember the next day anyway.

Edit: this is what a pediatrician said to help console a parent who was hesitant to try sleep training

[jessermeyer]

This is some approximation of what half the globe already believes to occur with reincarnation, but it is not felt exclusively as a dark terror. More like the setting and rising of the sun. The nights are dark and full of terror, but it is cast away with the coming rays.

[Pigalowda]

Kind of like object permanence though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence