I actually quite like that Vicki - yes J is older now but he is often quite disorientated and sleepy when he does wake at night so forgets how to operate something more complicated.
I mean - he could turn his stars and moon light back on as that makes the room brighter and will last for 45 mins - but he seems incapable of doing that in the middle of the night - even with the dim night light in the corner of the room.
There is no doubt that light is very disruptive to his sleep though
. Plus Meg sleeps in the pitch black and I sometimes need them to sleep in the same room.
I think I had best try and explain away the 'scared of the dark thing'