In Reply to: Re: Easier to start than stop?- YOU BET ! posted by PeeMyBed on December 13, 2006 at 07:26
WB, I wonder if your difficulties had anything to do with the fact that you were a bedwetter into your adolescence?
Taking into account that almost every child goes through a period where they are dry during the day but still wet at night, let's consider as a definition of "non-bedwetter" someone who is almost always dry at night after the age of four or five, and that anyone who continues to wet the bed after that, especially into the ages of 7 or 8 or older, is a "bedwetter".
Then, if you accept these hypothetical definitions, do "bedwetters" have a more difficult time stopping than "non-bedwetters", if they retrain themselves to bedwet as teenagers/adults? Another way to ask the same question, maybe, is: are true bedwetters somehow wired differently than others? Maybe that's why many people (myself included) who would like to experience wetting in our sleep have so much trouble doing it.
Comments?
Please understand I am not trying to label anyone or pass judgment. I am not sure where I fall in this categorization. I wet the bed up to the age of 5 or so; I still remember doing it because I was afraid of monsters under the bed and so was afraid to get up -- I don't remember if I would have these fears before going to sleep and wake up wet because I went to sleep knowingly with a full bladder, or if I woke in the morning needing to pee, and wet the bed deliberately because I was afraid to get up.
Anyway I have been following this conversation with great interest because I would love to experience a true bedwetting. The next time I have an opportunity, I'm going to try what someone suggested -- wetting my pajamas a bit (so that they're mostly damp) before I go to sleep.)