I sleep with a teddy bear every night! I just got it back in March I think it was, I went to a Shamanic Soul Care workshop and each of us got a teddy bear that we used to represent our "Soul" and we did a ritual to care for our "soul bears" the idea behind it was that we are always rushing around, taking care of everybody else, but not ourselves, so we slowed down for a bit and let the teddy bears be stand-ins for our selves/souls, and the facilitator had a bunch of little things like marbles (to represent fun), seeds (to represent growth), little hearts (to remember love!) little stuff like that representing different things and we each gathered to us whatever pieces we chose and put them in a little cloth that we tied up and put on our bears like a little backpack. It was a very powerful evening. I took the 'backpack' off and put it in my memory box, and sleep with the teddy bear every night now. It's my "soul bear" and I talk to it too sometimes as I'm going to sleep at night. <giggle> teddy bears ROCK!