Okay, so I'm not sure how many of you have Facebook and are familiar with this new share button. But this morning someone shared a picture of a melted dreamlite claiming that it was on an automated timer but it never shut off. So it melted.
Has anyone else had this happen or heard of it happening? I don't want to get all freaked out and overreact. Because I saw a shared post one time of one those hospital nose suckers that supposedly had all this mold growing in it. Well, I freaked out and cut mine open and there was nothing in there lol.
There are LED lights in the Dreamlite we have, so the lights don't get hot. I can see maybe a battery issue where one leaked and melted the plastic, but because it's left on? I smell BS.
My daughter used to run her Dreamlite all night long, instead of using the timer. It never melted or got in the least bit warm. They are designed to be able to run all the time.
Most of what you see online, especially those shared photos and stories on FB are bogus. They're the modern day version of a chain letter. Please use your judgement and sites like snopes.com or truthorfiction.com to determine their validity before you panic or spread panic by sharing them yourself.
You can check out snopes.com to see if they have any info on it being fake or not.
I have not seen that and couldn't find anything easily online. I chalk it up to quality control. My SD once had a mini lava lamp type night light at her mom's house. She said it exploded one night. Now, if it just broke and oozed out or went boom! I am not sure, but I do admit that her story made me reluctant to buy one for DD later.
DD has a Dreamlite and it seems to have a very soft, gentle glow and whatever bulb is in there is no brighter (less, than, really) than her nightlite. So I feel that I am taking a similar risk to have the Dreamlite on as the nightlite.
I did find some Amazon reviews where the toy wouldn't light up. DD has had her unicorn since Christmas and it's not had a problem yet. So I go back to the beginning of this post where I suspect generic quality control. I would honestly expect more of them to not turn on than not turn off.
If you think it's a problem, you can go in when the child is asleep and make sure it's off.
I have 3 kids and 3 dreamlites. All of them have left them on overnight many times and we've never had an issue. I have never heard of that happening either.
Good for you for cutting open the nose sucker! That is the best way to know hoax from reality.
I suppose the dreamlite could overheat and melt. My daughter has one and I turn it off as soon as she asleep. However, the hype of the dreamlite is over and she rarely turns it on.
When I use camera flash, I use a lot of batteries. They aren't entirely spent, but they get so hot that they will no longer work at the time. I tossed 4 in my purse side pocket where there was a work badge chain. That afternoon I smelled a bit of a burning smell. It was the battery charging against the chain and starting to warm up a piece of paper. Now I use something to isolate the batteries.
There's no reason why a Dreamlite would melt even if it ran for several days at a time... just like any other nightlight or even regular lamp with plastic on it. So I think this is probably a hoax.
My grandchild has a dream lite and I've seen it stay on all night. It did not melt. If you think about it, the bulb is too small to melt anything. It does not get hot enough.
You can google dream lite to see if anyone else has reported on any site this sort of thing happening. I googled it and found nothing adverse.
