How do I get my girlfriend to knock off this annoying habit?

My girlfriend and I have been together for almost a year now, and things are going great for the most part. She’s really easy to get along with, we have similar interests, and we always have a great time together. Plus, she’s absolutely gorgeous, so I really can’t complain. If I’m being completely honest, I’ve already thought about proposing, and I think we’d have a bright future together.<br><br>Of course, nobody’s perfect. Take this one thing she does that’s just really, really annoying and getting worse...<br><br>Every night, she insists on putting this stuffed rabbit on my pillow before we go to sleep.<br><br>The first time it happened, I found it incredibly cute. We were at her parents house, and we were sharing a room for the night. Before we went to bed, she placed this little bunny on my pillow, and when I asked her what she was doing, she told me that she needed to make sure I was comfortable and felt safe. She’d also put a little nightgown on the bunny and sewn a little bag of lavender into its stomach. I didn’t recognize the bunny at the time, but my girlfriend told me it was a stuffed animal she’d had since she was a kid and that it had been her security blanket for a long time. She even went through a phase where she insisted it was real.<br><br>I have to admit, I found the gesture incredibly sweet. I still do. She was trying to show she cared for me and wanted me to feel comfortable in her family's home. When I fell asleep that night and saw the bunny there looking over me, I felt like I’d found my soulmate. <br><br>It was really sweet the second night as well. We’d gone back to my place, and she’d insisted on bringing the bunny with her. She put it on my pillow before we went to bed again, and I have to admit it made me feel very loved and appreciated. <br><br>By the third night, I was starting to think it was a little weird. <br><br>I get it, this was an important memento from her childhood. I was honored that she’d want to share it with me. At the same time, it was starting to feel like she was trying to recreate some kind of parent/child relationship between us. I felt like I was the kid and she was the mom, and I didn’t really like that dynamic. I figured it would stop after a few nights, and if it didn't, I could always talk to her about it and she’d understand.<br><br>The problem is, it didn’t stop. After those first few nights, she started putting the rabbit on my pillow every single night, and she still hasn’t stopped. I’d guess it’s been 250+ nights at this point, and every morning I wake up and there’s the bunny. She doesn’t seem to be doing it ironically anymore, either, and she still insists on sewing a new bag of lavender into the rabbit’s stomach every few weeks.<br><br>It’s honestly starting to freak me out. I’d tried talking to her about it, and she just said she was trying to show me she cared in her own way. I told her I loved her for it, but I didn’t think it was necessary anymore. She said it was just a gesture of goodwill and I should let her do it, since it wasn’t hurting anyone. <br><br>In the time since then, I’ve tried to just roll with it and let her have her little gesture. The only problem is, I have really bad insomnia. I usually go to bed around 10, but I don’t actually fall asleep until around 3am or 4am. During this time, I’m just laying in bed, bored out of my mind and trying to relax. I sometimes try reading a book or listening to calming music, but often I just end up staring up at the ceiling. <br><br>I’ve started to notice something about the bunny when I’m doing this, though: Every night, it's not in the same position when I wake up as it is when I go to sleep.<br><br>The first time I noticed this was maybe a month or two ago. I fall asleep pretty late, as I mentioned earlier, and usually wake up around 7:30ish. I’m not entirely sure why, but as I was getting out of bed, I happened to notice the bunny. I was trying to remember what position it was in when my girlfriend put it there, and I realized it looked different. It was on its back the night before, but that morning it was sitting up. I thought maybe I was just misremembering, but something about it really stuck with me. It was like something instinctual was telling me something was wrong.<br><br>I started paying more attention after that, and sure enough, I was correct. Almost every night, the bunny would switch positions. It was subtle, but it was happening every night. My girlfriend would always put it in the same position on my pillow: sitting upright, looking toward me as if it were watching over me. But every morning, it was twisted in some way. Maybe it was on its back, maybe it was on its front, maybe it was looking away. I started to notice really tiny things about the way it sat on the pillow as well. Like one morning it was with its ears folded toward its back, and the next its ears were standing up as they usually were. I knew my girlfriend wasn’t touching it, because she always goes to sleep before I do and she was always asleep when I'd see her in the morning.<br><br>I’ve even tried moving the bunny, just to see what happens. There will be nights when I get into bed and I accidentally knock the bunny off the pillow. If this happens, I’ll usually just hang it off the side of the bed or put it under the covers. And every time, no matter where I put the bunny the night before, it always ends up in the same spot on the pillow when I wake up: sitting up, looking toward me, its ears up and its little paws splayed out in front of it. I’ve even tried switching its position before I go to bed. Instead of having it sit up and watch over me, I'll have it face away or lie on its stomach. But every time, I wake up and it’s in the exact same position it always is. <br><br>At this point, I’m just over it. It’s so freaking weird, and honestly, it’s starting to scare me a little. I don’t know what the hell my girlfriend is playing at, or why she needs to recreate the same gesture every night. If I’m being completely honest, this bunny is starting to unnerve me. It sits on my pillow every night, watching me as I try to sleep. I’ve tried talking to her about it before, but now I really need to address it.<br><br>I’m planning on talking to her about it tonight. I just hope she takes it well.