Did you have a nightlight as a kid? If so, do you remember what it looked like?
Mine was a classic yelllow1960’s smiley face.
We never had them, although my dad is a retired firefighter and they weren’t as safe back then as they are now. (We didn’t have electric blankets for the same reason.)
However, they did get one when they got a cat! :rolleyes: Go figure.
No. I wasn’t allowed to ‘waste electricity’ growing up. Good grief.
I do use nightlights now, though. I seem to get really dizzy in the pitch darkness, and I’ll fall down, if I don’t have a little bit of light. I have no idea why, though.
Don’t remember a night light when I was that young. Usually in more recent years it’s a light left on in another room, just so you’re not in the dark when you need to make a potty run.
These days I have a dim plug-in in two rooms on the way to the bathroom. Couldn’t
manage without them!
Mainly it was a tv left on till my dad turned it off. Also for some time I had a nightlight that used a Christmas light bulb, I had several colors to chose from and would switch them as I wanted.
No. The light would have kept me awake.
Scooby-doo.
I don’t think I did, but I’m big on nighttime illumination now. The upstairs hallway has a dim LED light that is always on. The kitchen stove has a LED lamp in the vent hood that is always on. Lately, since switching to LEDs, I’ve tended to have the family room table lamp on 24x7. As for the bedroom, I have a high-intensity light from IKEA with a dimmer control that is halogen, not LED, and it’s been on almost 24x7 at a dim setting for nearly fifteen years now, sitting on top of the bed headboard that is also a bookshelf. I have spare bulbs but it doesn’t need them. My sleep is often intermittent and I sometimes need to find my tablet or Kindle Paperwhite in the middle of the night, and the dim overhead light is ideal.
I was given a small candle, now called a tealight.
We had a nightlight in the hall so we kids wouldn’t fall down the stairs. I later got a nightlight in my room because I had a very active imagination, which wasn’t helped by my older siblings telling me ghost stories. Both my kids had nightlights. I don’t have a nightlight in my room now, but I have one in the main hall and in each bathroom.
If kids feel better with a nightlight, they should have them, regardless of age.
This thread would not be complete without at least a nod to TMBG “Birdhouse in Your Soul.”
Like the Longines Symphonette, it doesn’t rest.
I have no recollection of anything called a "nightlight, nor of fear of the dark. Usually fell asleep with the radio on, which had a lit dial. That was replaced by one with a red LED clock.
According to Ngram, the usage of the word “nightlight” more than doubled from 1975 to 1990.
Nope.
I used a nightlight for a really long time, maybe up to high school, as I was simply afraid of sleeping in the dark.
No special characters or anything. It was a plain household nightlight.
We presently use those motion-activated “angel lights.” We ran into a problem with them, when our kids came to visit. The Daughter and the Son-in-law were sleeping on the hide-a-bed in the living room. Mr VOW forgot to deactivate the lights in that room.
The Son-in-law said every time he rolled over, he felt like an inmate trying to escape from prison!
~VOW
We had a huge plastic squirrel. Sat in the middle of our bedroom, with a bulb inside so it glowed. But only dimly because the plastic was so thick. But that’s not the interesting part…
I fell asleep to that smell of hot plastic every night of my childhood. Triggers intense nostalgia whenever I smell that (usually has to be thick, old school plastic …that’s in danger of overheating).
The lil’wrekkers nursery was a circus theme. (Don’t laugh, I saw it on a home improvement show)
Someone gave her a clown lamp. Kinda cute in the daytime. It had a nightlight setting. It’s huge red nose glowed. Creeped me right out.
I got rid of that pretty early on in her infancy. Didn’t wanna scare the kid, you know.
She had a regular plug in the wall plate night light after that.
Similar to this lamp, it was a 3 way table lamp, which would have either the top light (60 watt), both lights or just the little light, which was about the size of Christmas bulb (similar to a 7 watt frosted bulb).
The Christmas bulb was covered by a mini teepee, made of straw or something similar and there was a little Native American figure on the stand.
When I was 6 I told my parents I was a big girl and didn’t need the nightlight anymore. The lamp stayed until my mom redecorated my bedroom when I was 10.
There was a street light across the road from the house where I grew up, so my room got some light from that. And my mom put a plain night light in the bathroom, then left the door open so we could find our way if needed.
In our house now, there are multiple lights - each bathroom has a very dim light - just enough so you can find the toilet. There’s a photo-sensitive LED in the hallway, so it’s always lit when it’s dark. And our stove has a night setting with a dim light between the hours I select. That one was especially nice when I was working and getting up in the dark of the morning - I didn’t have to grope my way to the light switch!
Plus, again, our bedroom is illuminated from outside - the neighbor has a very bright porch light that stays on all night. I don’t care enough to get room-darkening drapes, but some nights, it really annoys me! 
Presently I find my way to the bathroom at night by the little glows of all our charging electronics.