A recent study by British hotel chain Travelodge found that 35 percent of adults sleep with teddy bears because they find it comforting. One in 4 men take teddy bears with them when they travel for business. These men say that their stuffed animals remind them of home and their significant others. What do you sleep with and why?
“Usually, I plug my cell phone near me and it’s on my bed so it’s easy to reach. I don’t know if that counts. I don’t get homesick. I live away from home and I’m fine. But the phone gives me comfort because it gives me contact with important people. If I lose it, I get nervous.” Meskir Kidane, senior biology major
“I don’t have anything. I have a long pillow I put my arm around. I don’t know if that counts.” Christopher Garcia, senior English and international studies major
Kaneshia Spann, junior pre-med major
“A pillow. I don’t have anything else. I hug my pillow so I guess that counts as a teddy bear. When you put one between your legs, that’s comfortable.”
Daniel Rubio, senior business
administration major
“Sometimes I do sleep with a teddy bear because my ex-boyfriend got it for me. I sleep with it when I miss him.”
Breana Gibson, junior marketing major
“No teddy bears here — just by myself. I’m not trying to sound emotional, but to me, it doesn’t make sense why anyone would sleep with a teddy bear. I wouldn’t expect other men to do that either. There’re other ways to feel emotionally attached to people.”
Kaustubh Nadkarni, second-year law student
