Little Bella (3.6 years old now) has had in the past some issues with "night terrors" where she starts yelling and screaming at around midnight, not fully awake, and hard to comfort. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's mighty freaky. Usually, her terrors coincide with a developmental "leap" - shortly after a screaming night, she'll start doing something she never did before. I think it's most likely her neurons massively realigning and her brain just freaks out during the upgrade process.
Sort of like brain growing pains... growth spurts.
Well, for the past week, Bella has been regressing a bit - lots of baby talk, forgetting to use the potty, wanting to be carried around... and the armchair psychologists among us were trying to figure out what was happening. Last night, around midnight, we got the screaming - a classic night terror, and far from being freaked out, Pamela and I just said - let's ride this out and see what tomorrow brings.
This morning, Bella woke up, went to the potty, flushed, came in to visit us, and there was no baby talk.... We're back to pre-regression behavior at least! I didn't see any wildly new skills developed, but she may have picked up some basic Calculus or something - we'll just have to see.
It is just AMAZING to watch her brain develop...
On a related note: I did finally get upstairs to work on the 4th Project Manager track, and boy, it was great to finally let it out of MY brain. It's only a minute sketch right now, but the soul of the song is there. An interesting weekend!
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