5 year old hearing voices?

[Emlou07]

Aibu to be concerned or is this normal?

So my eldest turned 5 in October. Recently she's been having lots or bad dreams, sometimes waking up crying hysterically.

She will also randomly become upset and say things like 'Mummy I'm thinking about horrible things'. This evening she started to cry and said that she was thinking that she threw me in a dark cave with a bear. After discussing it she said the boy told her to and that she has to love daddy more. Where as the girl says that she has to have nice dreams about nice things.

Does this sound normal for a 5 year-old or something possibly more sinister? She's never ever mentioned an imaginary friend of any sort before.

Hearing voices is more common than people think, though with a child that young it may just be her going through a stage of making sense of intrusive thoughts and overvaluing them, so getting upset.
You might find this link useful though if it continues:
www.hearing-voices.org/resources/free-downloads/

OP posted this over 4 years ago
Her DD will be 9 now

If she was hearing voices without any distress I wouldn’t be overly concerned, especially at her age, but because she is clearly distressed then yeah you should take her to a GP.

Look at the date of the OP!