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Gedrene
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21 Nov 2011, 10:01 am

I don't. I subscribe to the idea of teddy bears being an ornament or an aid for children.



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21 Nov 2011, 3:25 pm

I still sleep with my teddy. She looks very ragged as I took her everywhere until I started school and most other places like holidays if I needed to sleep. I generally didn't use her when I was living with my ex boyfriend however I still felt like I needed her as I fall asleep a lot more quickly



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10 Dec 2011, 11:37 pm

I sleep with a bunch of plushie Cars characters and some other random plushies....and of course, my three Dorys. :) They're little bean bag dolphins.


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11 Dec 2011, 12:51 am

I never slept with anything but I would sleep a lot better if I had my arm around a girl because I HATE sleeping alone; I mean sleep literally here incase any girls here are interested :wink:


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11 Dec 2011, 1:05 am

I haven't needed a teddy bear since I was a kid.
With the exception of once when I was having a bad trip on LSD. There was a big cuddly teddy bear that got me though that horrifying experience. Yes, it was a real teddy bear, I still have it, other people can see it.
Also, the same bear got me through the death of my cat in 2004.


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11 Dec 2011, 1:22 am

I don't need to sleep with anything, but it helps if I hug a pillow or something soft as I'm falling asleep. I have a gigantic pink stuffed bunny in my room that I tend to hug...otherwise, I usually wrap my arms around a pillow.


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11 Dec 2011, 2:59 am

I sleep with my Casper. He is a koala. I picked him out for my second birthday. I feel guilty if i dont. He has feelings. He would be sad if i forgot him. He has even gone to my boyfriends house. :)


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11 Dec 2011, 8:37 am

Yes. I had a teddy bear with whom I slept since I was 3 or so, 'till I was 12... because my mum forbade me from sleeping with him anymore. However, on my first year uni (at eighteen) I took it to Barcelona (a city far away from my hometown, Sevilla, Spain), and I slept with it several nights, until the older guys in my "boarding school" began playing pranks to the first years, so I hid it in my bag, and took it to my uni classes. You should have imagined the faces of my classmates when they saw I had a teddy bear stuffed up between my books and pencil cases in my rucksack! :D