My sim kid always wakes up screaming.

It happens occasionally for me, they'll be leaning against their bed and searching around for something. They seem startled and hop out of their bed, with no negative moodlets to go with it.

"JimG72;c-15809028" wrote:

"Zasz;c-15808078" wrote:

Do I have too much empathy if I think thats cruel?

Nope....I think it's a little bit of a weird animation too...seems to me like it would make more sense that they only wake up startled if something scared them.

"Zasz;c-15808078" wrote:

It gives me a negative moodlet.

What is the name of the negative moodlet and what does the description on it say? And were they at full energy when they woke up? The kids in my games have woken up with this "startled" animation every single time, full rested energy or not....and I've never once seen a negative moodlet specifically for a child waking up on full rested energy with the usual "startled" animation on hundreds and hundreds of occasions.

I think they are being a little sarcastic and aren't talking about the sims, but themselves because they don't like it. Lol I could be wrong. . .

It's as though the game cannot differentiate between them waking because of the monster and waking up because it's morning or their energy level is back to the top. However once they realise the monster isn't who woke them up they become calm and relieved.

"JimG72;c-15796914" wrote:
Kids wake up appearing to be startled....not really screaming at all. It's just an animation bug. If your kids have a full energy bar then they are fine.

Mine wakes up every morning with a start, clasping at his chest. But he jumps out of bed and laughs to himself. lol I think it's cute. I think of it as he's reacting to a dream of him going to school with no pants on.

But it would be nice if they fixed this little bug.

I've only just noticed this happening in my game. They don't have a nightmare or a monster under the bed, so I think something is botched and the animation for waking up and seeing a monster under the bed has replaced the normal waking up animation.

I don't think this a bug. They probably replaced the monster waking up animation with the normal one.

Hmm I don't think so, the only problem I've run into is my kids getting scared by monsters every single night!

Same here, every single morning they wake up screaming.

I have experienced this, too. Even though I put up those monster-be-gone wall lamps, my little Simmie children wake up startled, hand on their chest and panting. It's kinda cute in a way. Are we sure it's a bug?

I've seen this happen, I didn't realize it was a bug. I just thought it was an animation to let us know the kid was awake. I too, play a large household and hearing the sound helped me know when the kids woke up so I could start helping them get ready for school.

They also do a little sing songy thing sometimes when they wake up too, don't they? I don't have any kids in my household right now but I heard/seen the startled and heard a ta-da type of sound as well. That's why I always thought it was meant to be that way to let us know the kid might need to be checked up on or whatever.

I don't know anything about the monster under the bed because I put a mod in after seeing it once and decided I wasn't dealing with it it again, so I don't know what the night terror animation is like. :D