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My guess is that the warm and snug feeling of behind under a blanket evokes the womb. Same idea for white noise while sleeping.

• seizethecheese 9y ago
  This isn't a common myth and was addressed in tr article: "I’m very suspicious of anyone who implies that this goes back to the feeling of being in the womb,” she says. “I think that’s very far-fetched.”
  • mrhappyunhappy 9y ago
    Human behavior is part biologically programmed so to say that this is far fetched is to ignore evolution.
    • aninhumer 9y ago
      There's a difference between the argument that people have an evolved biological preference for warmth and pressure, and the argument that this is because it evokes conditions in the womb. Without elaboration, the latter sounds like Freudian psychobabble to me.
    • cimmanom 9y ago
      What does the concept of "retreating to the womb" have to do with evolutionary pressures?